US Navy stealth destroyer

Bob77064 · Nov 1, 2013

USS Zumwalt, US Navy stealth destroyer

Capt. James Kirk To Command Navy's New 'Stealth Destroyer' : The Two-Way : NPR

buickanddeere · Nov 1, 2013

Getting well past the point for the best defence value for the dollar.

Soundguy · Nov 1, 2013

how can this go wrong.. capt kirk!

dave1949 · Nov 1, 2013

buickanddeere said:
Getting well past the point for the best defence value for the dollar.

Hey! Those are Maine defense pork dollars you are dissing. :laughing:

I have no idea how useful or necessary that ship is to the US Navy. My guess is that's its primary mission would be carrier group protection?

Let's hope it doesn't get burned up like the submarine USS Miami did in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (which is actually in Kittery, Maine) because an idiot wanted to get off work early to see his girlfriend.

RoyJackson · Nov 1, 2013

dave1949 said:
Let's hope it doesn't get burned up like the submarine USS Miami did in Portsmouth Navel Shipyard (which is actually in Kittery, Maine) because an idiot wanted to get off work early to see his girlfriend.

Yeah...he'll see her again in about 25 years...in the interim, I'm sure he'll be the girlfriend.

BTW, it's Naval, not Navel...

dave1949 · Nov 1, 2013

RoyJackson said:
Yeah...he'll see her again in about 25 years...in the interim, I'm sure he'll be the girlfriend.

BTW, it's Naval, not Navel...

Oops! Thx.

He should have been shot at sunrise.

bcp · Nov 1, 2013

The Navy should have specified clear paint instead of gray, to make it harder to see. A real stealth ship should look like a hole in the water.

The Air Force stealth fighter does it right.

Bruce

Soundguy · Nov 1, 2013

i was hoping for the philadelphia expire-ment..

Bob77064 · Nov 1, 2013

bcp said:
The Navy should have specified clear paint instead of gray, to make it harder to see. A real stealth ship should look like a hole in the water.

The Air Force stealth fighter does it right.

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Bruce

That's a good looking stealth fighter.

creekbend · Nov 1, 2013

I have a question. What about surveilance by Satellite? Stealth doesn't seem to be much of an advantage if it can't elude this tracking method and the Satellite's capability of detailed Photos, position to the exact point of Latitude and Longitude. Just a thought. It would be far better to have this Technology on all our SUBS. Just a thought.