USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a neat looking ship. This rendering (from the cover of a recent IEEE Spectrum) makes it look like something out of science fiction: h

USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a neat looking ship. This rendering (from the cover of a recent IEEE Spectrum) makes it look like something out of science fiction: http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/08cover2013-1374501406697.jpg http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/08cover2013-1374501406697.jpg ETA: it was originally designed to have a vertical gun that could only fire straight up. Smart projectiles would proceed to head off in whatever direction they were programmed to go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer#Advanced_Gun_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer#Advance...