Welcome aboard, Captain Kirk.

[ProfessorWes]

The Navy's newest destroyer looks like something out of science fiction . . . and has a captain to match.

https://news.usni.org/2016/05/20/destroyer-zumwalt-delivers

Although at sixteen thousand tons, that thing's more the size of a heavy cruiser than a destroyer. And so expensive that the Navy can only afford three of them . . .

 

[BlkHawk73]

They built that up here and was quite a news story when it first left for sea trials. Now it's back as a headline. (doesn't take much to be front page up here) Missed seeing it leave but it looks like a pretty impressive vessel.

 

[GunnyGene]

Anybody know where their first deployment will be?

 

[gramps]

Probably somewhere stealth is needed. :shock: IMO
gramps

 

[powder smoke]

Anybody know where their first deployment will be?

Virginia parked next to the other ships in port. Need money for Syrian refugees resettlement,
can not afford to deploy it. ps

 

[SAJohn]

The Skipper's full name is James A. Kirk, sadly the initial is not T.

 

[pisgah]

Saw it numerous times tied up at BIW while working in ME last week. It has made some of the locals nervous during the sea trials, as the fishermen say that is undetectable on their radars.

 

[toysoldier]

Another post said they deployed radar reflectors while entering and leaving port, so other ships could "see" them.

 

[exavid]

Or have to keep them in port to save money.

 

[stefko]

I was dismayed to read that the third ship in the class will be the USS Lyndon B Johnson, now the second worst president in recent American history. What'll be next, perhaps USS Al Sharpton, USS Bowe Bergdahl, or worse?

Steve

 

[Robes]

Being it is electric,...wonder if an EMP would shut it down? Then it becomes an invisible buoy....

 

[Jimbo357mag]

That ship is a Quantum Leap (pun intended) into the future. Wait till they mount that new rail gun on there.

Did anyone mention there was some concern about it being top heavy and the hull not being stable at sea?

 

[Jimbo357mag]

I can hardly wait for the USS Barack Hussein Obama - no doubt a garbage scow.

Do you get a prize for insulting the President?

 

[toysoldier]

I can hardly wait for the USS Barack Hussein Obama - no doubt a garbage scow.

I think a ferry would be more appropriate---going back and forth, and never getting anywhere.

 

[SATCOM]

$7,000,000.00 each!!!! Seven Billion dollars each!!!!

They got one name right; Michael Monsoor, Seal and was posthumously awarded Medal of Honor.

SATCOM

 

[radicalrod]

$7,000,000.00 each!!!! Seven Billion dollars each!!!!

They got one name right; Michael Monsoor, Seal and was posthumously awarded Medal of Honor.

SATCOM

I think you forgot 3 ZERO's......RR

 

[SATCOM]

RR,

Will at least I got the written version right.

SATCOM

 

[DA_TriggR4Ruger]

Anybody know where their first deployment will be?

The Neutral Zone?