This is called the USS Zumwalt and it’s the newest warship the Navy has created:
The Navy's newest warship, USS Zumwalt, is 610 feet long and expected to cost $4.4 billion. https://t.co/97gKgwwwE7https://t.co/FfUARIHvTs
— ABC News (@ABC) May 16, 2016
From the Daily Mail:
U.S sailors will defend their shores with one of the ‘deadliest’ warships on the seas as the navy takes control of the USS Zumwalt.
The destroyer – which has guns designed to pummel enemies from nearly 100 miles away – is the largest in the fleet but its state of the art design makes it so hard to detect that on radar it resembles the size of a fishing trawler.
It is believed that the Zumwalt, considered the fleet’s most technologically advanced destroyer, will cost taxpayers around $4.4billion when it is finished and should be ready for active service by October.
The ship features an angular shape that makes it 50 times more difficult to detect on radar and it’s powered by electricity produced by turbines similar to those in a Boeing 777.
Advanced automation will allow the big ship to operate with a much smaller crew than on current generation of destroyers.
- Displacement: 14,564 long tons (14,798 t)
- Length: 600 ft (180 m)
- Beam: 80.7 ft (24.6 m)
- Draft: 27.6 ft (8.4 m)
- Propulsion: Two Rolls-Royce Marine Trent-30 gas turbines driving Curtiss-Wright generators and emergency diesel generators, 78 MW (105,000 shp); two propellers driven by electric motors
- Speed: Over 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
- Weapons: 20 × MK 57 VLS modules, with a total of 80 launch cells
- RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), four per cell
- Tactical Tomahawk, one per cell
- Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket (ASROC), one per cell
- Two × 155 mm/62 caliber Advanced Gun System
- 920 × 155 mm rounds total; 600 in automated store with Auxiliary store room with up to 320 rounds (non-automatic) as of April 2005
- 70–100 LRLAP rounds planned as of 2005 of total
- Two × Mk 110 57 mm gun (CIGS)
What do you think? Is this badass or what!