Mean looking machine(not an office I’d want to work). Looks like this enterprise included a certain degree of stealth tech. Shatner will be shat!

Captain Kirk to command new Navy destroyer

The commander of the U.S. Navy’s sleek new guided-missile destroyer, which launched late last week in Maine, has a name to match its space-age look: Captain Kirk.

Captain James Kirk, the prospective commanding officer of USS Zumwalt, will lead the 610-foot vessel, the Navy’s largest destroyer and first of three new Zumwalt-class ships “designed for littoral operations and land attack,” the Navy said.

Kirk, a native of Bethesda, Md., was commissioned at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1990 and has served in a variety posts as a “surface warfare officer,” according to his online bio. “Ashore, Captain Kirk has served as Executive Assistant to the Navy’s Chief of Legislative Affairs and as an Action Officer on the Joint Staff.”

Good on him, happy for him his career is progressing along. Getting command of a new first ship of a class must be a special honour. I’m sure he deserves it on merit and the name is merely a coincidence.

party_pants said:

Good on him, happy for him his career is progressing along. Getting command of a new first ship of a class must be a special honour. I’m sure he deserves it on merit and the name is merely a coincidence.

He’d have had to study the new systems to be shortlisted for the job.

Very strange looking ship.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Very strange looking ship.

Reminds me of a dart(paper plane). It would be interesting to learn about the weapons systems.

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/dd21/

Witty Rejoinder said:

Very strange looking ship.

Yeah, low radar profile and all that.

would be interested to see how much these new boats are stabilized with all the weight over the keel the way it is. must be comfy

they are actually rather large ships. As large as a WW2 era “pocket-battleship”. Longer and heavier than the preceding class of cruisers in the Ticonderoga class, yet still classified as a destroyer. 180m long and 14,800 tonnes displacement.

party_pants said:

they are actually rather large ships. As large as a WW2 era “pocket-battleship”. Longer and heavier than the preceding class of cruisers in the Ticonderoga class, yet still classified as a destroyer. 180m long and 14,800 tonnes displacement.

Armory probably takes up a lot of room having to stow all those missiles instead of artillery rounds

Riff-in-Thyme said:

party_pants said:

they are actually rather large ships. As large as a WW2 era “pocket-battleship”. Longer and heavier than the preceding class of cruisers in the Ticonderoga class, yet still classified as a destroyer. 180m long and 14,800 tonnes displacement.

Armory probably takes up a lot of room having to stow all those missiles instead of artillery rounds

Could be, but I don’t know enough about it.

DDG1000 weaponry

DDG 1000 will have a sensor and weapons suite optimised for littoral warfare and for network-centric warfare. Northrop Grumman has put forward a solution based on a peripheral vertical launch system (PVLS).

The solution consists of 20 four-cell PVLS situated round the perimeter of the deck, rather than the usual centrally located VLS. This would reduce the ship’s vulnerability to a single hit.

The advanced vertical launch system (AVLS) that forms the basis of the PVLS is being developed by BAE Systems Land and Armaments and Raytheon and has been designated the mk57 VLS.

Missile systems under consideration include tactical tomahawk (intended to succeed Tomahawk TLAM), standard missile SM-3 and the evolved Sea Sparrow missile (ESSM) for air defence.

BAE Systems Land and Armaments has been awarded the contract to develop the EDM for the ship’s advanced gun system (AGS), building on development work carried out for DD-21.

It will be equipped with a fully automated weapon handling and storage system and a family of advanced munitions and propelling charges, including the GPS-guided long-range land attack projectile (LRLAP). Up to 900 rounds of LRAP ammunition will be carried.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded the contract for the LRAP EDM.

The family of munitions is expected to include land attack and ballistic projectiles. Technologies derived from the US Navy’s extended-range guided munition (ERGM), the US Army 155mm XM-982 projectiles and the DTRA 5in projectile are being studied for incorporation into the projectile suite.

BAE Systems Land and Armaments is developing advanced gun barrel technologies for the new AGS, with improvements to barrel life, overall system performance and life-cycle costs.

The ship’s close-in gun system (CIGS) will be the BAE Systems Land and Armaments 57mm mk110 naval gun. The gun has a firing rate of 220 rounds a minute and range of 14km (nine miles). Raytheon IDS is supplying the ship’s electro-optical / infrared suite which has five Lockheed Martin sensors and will provide 360° surveillance and gun fire control.

party_pants said:

Riff-in-Thyme said:

party_pants said:

they are actually rather large ships. As large as a WW2 era “pocket-battleship”. Longer and heavier than the preceding class of cruisers in the Ticonderoga class, yet still classified as a destroyer. 180m long and 14,800 tonnes displacement.

Armory probably takes up a lot of room having to stow all those missiles instead of artillery rounds

Could be, but I don’t know enough about it.

For a start it carries three extra aircraft.

ChrispenEvan said:

DDG1000 weaponry

DDG 1000 will have a sensor and weapons suite optimised for littoral warfare

Littoral meaning close to shore.

could you imagine a battle between vehicles of this standard? Not a strike on some city but two separate relatively equipped fleets set on sorting the other out. Spectactasticles!!!

It looks like they launch it and it rolled turtle…

Stealth said:

It looks like they launch it and it rolled turtle…

I’m sure they’ve tank tested a few models by now.

party_pants said:

Stealth said:

It looks like they launch it and it rolled turtle…

I’m sure they’ve tank tested a few models by now.

Being a littoral ship I guess you have to expect a few tanks to take shots at it…

Considering how many lives get destroyed by the US lust for war, perhaps the title should be “death imitating art”?