US Navy DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class

Newest Stealth Destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) Inside Footage

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and now noticed
Navy's 2nd stealthy destroyer heads out to sea for 1st time

The second in the U.S. Navy stealthy Zumwalt class of destroyers headed out to sea for the first time on Monday, departing from Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works for builder trials.

The future USS Michael Monsoor carefully navigated the winding Kennebec River before reaching the North Atlantic. It’ll be at sea for several days before returning to Bath Iron Works for tweaks and adjustments.

Part of the 610-foot-long (186-meter-long) ship’s crew posed for photos at Fort Popham, in Phippsburg, as the ship cruised past.

The Monsoor is the second in a class of three futuristic-looking ships that feature electric-drive propulsion, new radar and sonar, powerful guns and missiles and a stealthy shape.

The first, the USS Zumwalt, has been commissioned into service and is based in San Diego. The third will be the Lyndon B. Johnson, which is under construction.

The Monsoor is named for a Navy SEAL, Michael Monsoor, who died in Iraq in 2006 when he threw himself on an insurgent’s grenade to protect his comrades. Monsoor, a 25-year-old California native, was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously.

The three warships are the largest and most technologically sophisticated destroyers built for the Navy. They’re also the most expensive, with an estimated cost of $12.9 billion for all three, according to Navy budget estimates.

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and now noticed
Navy's 2nd stealthy destroyer heads out to sea for 1st time
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Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) leaves Bath Iron Works for sea trials.



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We have lived for the last eight years with an administration that should own it. They have done all they could to slow down, water down, and muddy up these programs precisely because they would make America strong.

Sad to say, we have had leaders who believe that the US is the problem itself and that it should not have such advantages. They have, as I have said, sought to derai, defund, and screw around with these programs. They have appointed absolute lackeys into all levels of decision making at the civilian departments, and sadly, within the armed forces themselves...after firing, forcing into retirement, or otherwise neutering the strong militayry leadership that otherwise would have been available to them.

but they could not completely stop or neuter it and we now have an administration who is seeking to right these worngs. but it is going to take time...and it is going to cost to get things back on the rails.

I am all for the people who have scred up getting a meat loaf of come-uppanc and responsibility...but the political machine within the DNC, and the establishment GOP too, will do all in their power to keep that from happening.

I do believe however that Mr. Trump will find a way. He's going to turn the economy around, get American corporations firing on all eight with his economic and tax plans, and he will have the financing to do what he need to do and without bloating the debt...in fact I bet he reduces the debbt substantially before all is said and done because there is a monster economy out there waiting to take off on rocket engines.

I hope I live long nough o see it my friend. I am hopeful now that it can happen. Hillary would have been a diaster and would have continued those programs and doubled down on them.

I view it as a miracle with God in Heaven's help that we avoided that disaster.

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Let me just quote you here for the record so I can laugh it out loud later.


TRUMP.
WILL.
BANKRUPT.
AND.
BREAK.
AMERICA.


You idiots will never see it coming because you are so blind by it. Then you blame the next democrat adminstration that get in trying to undo all the damage done by Trump.




Oh and Zumwalt Class is a pretty looking expensive toy.

Ultra said:

Let me just quote you here for the record so I can laugh it out loud later.

TRUMP.
WILL.
BANKRUPT.
AND.
BREAK.
AMERICA.

You idiots will never see it coming because you are so blind by it. Then you blame the next democrat adminstration that get in trying to undo all the damage done by Trump.

Oh and Zumwalt Class is a pretty looking expensive toy.

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You have every right to your own feeling on the matter, however ridiculous they may be.

The fact is, the US is capable not only of overcoming the ridiculousness of the Dems tax and spend...even Obama, who indicated that Bush was un-American for a 4 trillion dollar deficit increase in eight years...and then he comes along and increases it by 12 trillion more himself!

But be that as it may...it's not really what SD is about and we need to leave off of the political discussion now and get back on topic to Defense issues without politics.

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Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001), the second of three high-tech, “super-stealth” Zumwalt-class destroyers, got underway from Bath Iron Works to start its first round of sea trials.

The ship started construction in March 2010 and was launched and christened on June 16, 2016, at the General Dynamics shipyard in Bath, Maine.

DDG 1001 is now set to undergo a series of trials before being officially handed over to the US Navy and christened sometime in 2018, provided everything goes as planned.

USS Zumwalt, the lead ship in the class, was commissioned on October 15, 2016, as the largest destroyer the US Navy has ever built, measuring 610 feet in length and displacing well over 14,000 tons.

The Zumwalt-class features a completely new electric propulsion system, wave-piercing tumblehome hull, stealth design, and the latest warfighting technology and weaponry available. Their stealth design makes the ships appear much smaller on radar. The destroyers have a radar cross-section of a fishing boat, according to the Naval Sea Systems Command.

They are the first US Navy combatant surface ships to utilize an integrated power system (IPS) to provide electric power for propulsion and ship services. According to the Navy, the new system generates approximately 78 megawatts of power.

The USS Zumwalt will unfortunately not be firing its 155 mm Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) as the shells for the weapon turned out to be too expensive due to the declining number of destroyers that are to be built. Initially, 32 Zumwalt destroyers were supposed to be built. Over the years the number, however, declined to three vessels and a single LRLAP round ended up costing around $800,000.

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These are beuatiful ships with very advanced capabilities. Unfortunately, during the Obama years, they, like many other advanced US military systems were allowed to wither on the vine. But all three will be built...and if we were msart, we would be at least nine more, if not 12 more.

The fact is, they are still capable of doing SO much and the laser system and rail gun system should be placed on these vessels as rapidly as possible, and a LR projectivle developed for their 155 mm guns. But the addition of a 155mm rail gun to replace one of those guns would help a lot with both graound support and anti-surface missions.

They should then have their secondary armament re-vamped. In the place allocated for the secondary gun, add a lser on one side and a rail gun on the other for close in defense and then use the rest of the room to add maybe 12 more PVLM cells on each side.

Then look at the possibility of what types of rotary aircraft could augment the vessel. For example, it has a large hanger capable of three medium helos. Could they fit one medium helo and an Osprey? Could the develop a specialized ASW or AEW or even attack version of the Opsrey?

They will need, IMHO, to add the active ASW defenses they are adding to all of the LHA/:HD and CVNs where they have the anti=tor[pedoe toredo that is rumored to be supercavitating.

Anyhow, the US has developed and now launched the 2nd Zumwalt and we need to now let serious, capable naval planners loose and let them develop this thing to be what it was meant to be...the biggest, badddest, most highly advanced cruiser/destroyer on the planet. We can still do that.

and then think how that hull and technology coul;d be used to develop the Ticonderoga replacement and place about 172 PVLM cells on the vessel without the large 155mm guns. Put two 127mm guns on it, perhaps back where the 57mm guns wee originally going to go, give them a stealth cupola, and then add the newest, bestest AEGIS radars we can scale up with dual bands.

Anyhow, here are some great pics of the 3nd ship.

Also, now carry through and make number three come out of the yard with one 155mm rail gun to replace one of the 155mm advanced gun systems.

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These are beuatiful ships with very advanced capabilities. Unfortunately, during the Obama years, they, like many other advanced US military systems were allowed to wither on the vine. But all three will be built...and ...

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... and this is the problem, because the USN is not just loosing money (OK they'll throw away even more for 26 LCS etc.), it's also loosing the slots for building destroyers which would work, and I don't mean "eventually" or "ultimately" work, what I mean are new Burkes

the USN has readiness issue, and has numbers issue; the USN should get real or it'll effectively keep shrinking

as for the Zumwalts, you might want to read the USNI News Yesterday at 7:51 AM

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they're looking for "cost-effective plan" how to actually use them now!! since they don't have money for bullets, don't have bigger missiles for Mk57 VLS etc.

the brass of course spinning the situation into success:
“What’s exciting about this [is] we’re starting to create a repository of knowledge that we can use to reiterate as we need to go along,”

if you thought I was exaggerating
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well, at that time I had been unaware of the article

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but yeah, the Zumwalts have an RCS of a fishing boat

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These are beuatiful ships with very advanced capabilities. Unfortunately, during the Obama years, they, like many other advanced US military systems were allowed to wither on the vine. But all three will be built...and if we were msart, we would be at least nine more, if not 12 more.

The fact is, they are still capable of doing SO much and the laser system and rail gun system should be placed on these vessels as rapidly as possible, and a LR projectivle developed for their 155 mm guns. But the addition of a 155mm rail gun to replace one of those guns would help a lot with both graound support and anti-surface missions.

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Bath do good job don't thinking yet ready for sea trials and a doubt for commissioning year planed end 2018 or 2019 but seems really possible for 2018 with 3 Burke ( 1 late initialy end 2017 )

Actualy as all ships Zumwalt after commissioning get some maintrnance, refine and IIRC after do armament trials for to be operationnal in 2019 i think
For the hull unusual ... but no stability problems only some restrictions for very tight turns