Zumwalt Sails
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) steams down the Kennebec River on Monday as she heads into the Atlantic for sea trials.
Seeing the size of this thing in the photo prompted me to look up the displacement: 15,000 tons. Calling that a destroyer is probably stretching the point more than a little. The HMS Dreadnought, the first of the "all big gun battleships," was commissioned in 1906 at 18,000 tons. The Yorktown class carriers of World War II displaced about 20,000 tons, while the average WWII heavy cruiser was under 10,000 tons.
Call it whatever you wish; there's no disputing that she's the first in a new era of warships. With railguns, stealth technology and fully-integrated data systems, the Zumwalt may prove to be every bit as revolutionary and influential as Dreadnought was in her day. Piclick for more info.
Seeing the size of this thing in the photo prompted me to look up the displacement: 15,000 tons. Calling that a destroyer is probably stretching the point more than a little. The HMS Dreadnought, the first of the "all big gun battleships," was commissioned in 1906 at 18,000 tons. The Yorktown class carriers of World War II displaced about 20,000 tons, while the average WWII heavy cruiser was under 10,000 tons.
Call it whatever you wish; there's no disputing that she's the first in a new era of warships. With railguns, stealth technology and fully-integrated data systems, the Zumwalt may prove to be every bit as revolutionary and influential as Dreadnought was in her day. Piclick for more info.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:56
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"We are absolutely fired up to see Zumwalt get underway. For the crew and all those involved in designing, building, and readying this fantastic ship, this is a huge milestone," the ship's skipper, Navy Capt. James Kirk, said before the ship departed.
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