The new warship could deploy it as early as 2014 and will be equipped with all the latest in high tech including so called: “electromagnetic rail guns” that with the help of a magnetic field and electric current will run projectiles at speeds several times faster than the speed of sound.
The ships are supposedly equipped with an “electric motor” and the most advanced sonar devices and missiles in the U.S. arsenal.
The one great advantage besides the speed is the fact that it is stealthy and will only give off a reduced radar signature comparable to that of a small fishing vessel a fraction of its real size.
The drawbacks are in terms of the weight – they are much heavier than other ships it terms of its size, meaning it will be harder to propel forward through the water.
Defense News reported this about the new warship, which is rather interesting:
“Nothing like the Zumwalt has ever been built. The 14,500-ton ship’s flat, inward-sloping sides and superstructure rise in pyramidal fashion in a form called tumblehome. Its long, angular “wave-piercing” bow lacks the rising, flared profile of most ships, and is intended to slice through waves as much as ride over them….”
“At least eight current and former officers, naval engineers and architects and naval analysts interviewed for this article expressed concerns about the ship’s stability. Ken Brower, a civilian naval architect with decades of naval experience was even more blunt: “It will capsize in a following sea at the wrong speed if a wave at an appropriate wavelength hits it at an appropriate angle”.... (see 2007 article: Defense News: Will DDG-1000 Destroyers Be Unstable? Defense News: Will DDG-1000 Destroyers Be Unstable? http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/defense-news-will-ddg1000-destroyers... ).
The Navy apparently wanted 32 of the expensive new toys, which cost $3.1 billion a piece to build, but had to settle for 3 because of a lack of Congressional support.
Critics believe that this Pentagon's project is a “money pit” of waste that is sucking cash from the Treasury...
It is also highly dependent on modern electronics...
One critic claims it is not hardened to EMP or “electromagnetic pulse” and could be disabled by the new generation of small “EMP bombs” being developed which are the size of a large suitcase. “Get one on board or inside the ship and set it off it will be a sitting duck in the water”, the source said. I should note that we however have no real way of verifying that sort of information.
Pravda.ru is reporting that Chinese Admirals appeared on local TV recently appeared to be openly mocking the new weapon. One is reported to have said that all the talk about the invincibility of the new destroyers is no more than “advertising hype” on the part of the U.S. military, adding that any "high tech" ship of the United States can be easily sunk by a simple fishing boat loaded with explosives.
An apparent reference to the U.S.S. Cole attack in October 2000.
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack against the United States Navy destroyer USS Cole, while it was harbored and being refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. In that sneak attack seventeen American sailors were killed, and 39 were injured. The attack effectively rendered the Cole dead in the water. It was an asymmetric warfare attack was organized and directed by the terrorist organization al-Qaeda using about 400- pounds of explosives put on a small craft that approached the port side of the destroyer.
The explosion caused a 40-by-40-foot gash in the ship's port side, according to reports at the time.
This event was the deadliest attack against a United States Naval vessel since 1987.
The terrorist organization al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, which stunned military officials because it was so low tech.
The new warship has already been compromised is so far as it has been photographed already while in dry dock by various people including one citizen David Long who posted these very interesting online comments on Friday June 8, 2012 on facebook:
“I am just wondering why there are two of these sitting in the Naval yard in dry dock at the Norfolk, VA shipyard? I am wondering why the most advanced starwars looking ships already exist....just go look for yourself, you can see them from the sand spit or over by Rebel Marina. They are huge, have no windows and clearly sport technology that could probably take them to space. I know, I was there anchored out in my sailboat in January (being buzzed 24/7 by the way by helicopters and surveillance planes) because I was accidentally anchored right on the "no pass" line about five miles from the base. I will add that there isn't exactly a red stripe sitting on top of the ocean, so I gave it a pretty good safety factor before I dropped anchor. I learned during the year I was down there that they have an incredible amount of really advanced things in their toy box, and you don’t want to mess with those guys. Lie everything the military does...they tell us they are going to build a Stealth bomber after they had ten years of them lying around. No need to wonder about the 2.3 mission trillion went. I have some photos by accident as I took some pictures of my sailboat at anchor and the futuristic ships are in the background. I would probably go to an undisclosed CIA prison if I posted them, so I won’t unless I get permission from the Secretary of the Navy or something. I guess you will have to go look. Might even be on Google Earth. There are many other highly advanced ships and helicopters over there as well in plain sight, Makes you wonder.”
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