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Wow, 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
by dingaling 11y ago
Wow, 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.