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JFKY A Note 1/12/2009 9:47:16 AM

I have NO connection to this web site, but would recommend "Information Dissemination." They discuss the cancellation of DDG-1000 and question the basis for cancellation. It is NOT that the Zumwalt can't utilize the Sm-series, it was never designed to, but the planned product improvement cycle included it. In short, the site makes the argument that the navy's reasons for canceling Zumwalt make no sense.

Go read for yourself and see what you think.

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WarNerd JFKY -- A Note 1/12/2009 5:53:52 PM

Got a link?

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sinoflex 1/12/2009 8:42:55 PM

The DDG-1000 program is a mess and Navy brass are issuing contradictory statements regarding the ship's capabilities. Here is a comprehensive article on the controversy including the supposed inability of the SPY-3 to direct Standard missiles (although it can do so for ESSM).

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HERALD1357 1/12/2009 9:28:00 PM

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No surprise here. This is going to get real UGLY when someone finally cleans out the Augean Stable that is PEO. They've just about fouled up everything imaginable in that mismanaged program.

It'll make the USN torpedo farce in BuOrd before the Second World War look like good industrial policy by comparison.

Herald

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RockyMTNClimber DDX, non-BMD? 1/12/2009 11:22:50 PM

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No surprise here. This is going to get real UGLY when someone finally cleans out the Augean Stable that is PEO. They've just about fouled up everything imaginable in that mismanaged program.

It'll make the USN torpedo farce in BuOrd before the Second World War look like good industrial policy by comparison.

Herald

Why in the hell did they design the DDX with limited surface warfare capability? No SPY radar? No hope of stepping into the Arleigh Burke's shoes (or at least interchangeability with it)?

Allot of money for a bomb truck.

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Rocky

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HERALD1357 1/12/2009 11:59:32 PM

No surprise here. This is going to get real UGLY when someone finally cleans out the Augean Stable that is PEO. They've just about fouled up everything imaginable in that mismanaged program.

It'll make the USN torpedo farce in BuOrd before the Second World War look like good industrial policy by comparison.

Herald

Why in the hell did they design the DDX with limited surface warfare capability? No SPY radar? No hope of stepping into the Arleigh Burke's shoes (or at least interchangeability with it)?

Comparing an apple with a banana. The Arleighs are area air defense escorts. The Zumwalt is a......, well I really don't know what the h--- it is, except an expensive replacement for an Iowa. The Navy piled a lot of experimental tech into it and hoped it would emerge as something logical for what was called littoral warfare.

Well I always wondered why we were bulding a 14,000 tonne littoral warfare ship. The only thing that could justify such a monster would be if it could single handedly reduce the DPRK to a smoking ruin.or blow the local PLAN to glory if the OOD goofed and ordered a particle beam from standby into active mode. 78 megawatts is not something I associate with just rockets and radars.

Allot of money for a bomb truck.

The Navy has always said the Zumwalts were the lead ins to the CGX. With the SPY-3 in spiral development I don't know what the misinformed are putting out but that radar system is not as limited as some claim. The architecture to employ it is DIFFERENT from AEGIS. SARH SAMs need reflected echoes from illuminators to track in. The rockets that will be mated with SPY 3 will use ATG and telemetry updating. to make the merge. CEC is the way that telemwetry will be imparted to the rockets. Now that meansd the Standards will be steered to their predict points by off ship data link more than by the launching ship, itself..

I just feel sorry for the repeater node It wears a "shoot ne" sign.

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Rocky

Herald

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tactical 3/9/2009 10:57:24 AM

Having served in 22 years in the Navy including during the "Zumwalt" days and I have reason to believe that anything with his name on it is destined to fail.

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