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Largest destroyer built for Navy headed to sea for testing
- protomyth 11y ago"the ship's skipper, Navy Capt. James Kirk" You gotta think that guy has taken some crud for his name.
- dingaling 11y agoWow, that's the same 15kT displacement as the USN's first nuclear cruiser, Long Beach, on a hull that is 100 feet shorter and 10 feet wider. That can't be good for the fineness ratio, a bit like pushing a barrel through the waves instead of a cone. Presumably that's why it's classified a ( fast-sprinting ) destroyer rather than a ( long-distance ) cruiser. I wonder what its endurance at '30+ knots' actually is...
- protomyth 11y agoThey did say they have a lot of work that went into the hull to get something that would be efficient.
- protomyth 11y agohere's some video: https://gcaptain.com/video-first-footage-of-future-uss-zumwalt-ddg-1000-underway/ https://gcaptain.com/video-first-footage-of-future-uss-zumwa... Wish they had got footage from another ship since that tends to show how quite ships are.