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2016-02-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Defense News: Will DDG-1000 Destroyers Be Unstable?

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Posted by gorb 2016-02-02 12:04|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I find it difficult to believe that testing at NSWC Carderock wouldn't have found this problem if it existed.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-02 12:24|| 2016-02-02 12:24|| Front Page Top

#2 I also believe that the specific scenario specified could be recreated in the wave tank. The architects better have ....

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-02 12:32|| 2016-02-02 12:32|| Front Page Top

#3 The ability of the ship to take a hit and damage control is always a question with the automation and one that won't be fully answered until the missiles start flying. Even then technology can leapfrog the original design.

Take for instance the British Battleships that were made in the 1920s. They didn't armor the decks and they were only made of wood as only a plunging shot would penetrate there and it saved weight and allowed the ships to be faster.

In WW2 this proved disastrous with the advent of the airplane and several British battleships were sent to the bottom of the sea by Japanese dive bombers.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-02-02 12:40|| 2016-02-02 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Gee were to start...so what were the name of this Battleships made by the Britsih that were sunk by Jap dive bombers?

Posted by Lionel Thoth9784 2016-02-02 14:43|| 2016-02-02 14:43|| Front Page Top

#5 There's this list.

Posted by gorb 2016-02-02 14:50|| 2016-02-02 14:50|| Front Page Top

#6 I am concerned about the ability to adequately address damage control; with a very small crew (automation is your friend) there is not a lot of redundancy for DC parties, fire fighting, shoring for flooding, etc.
The Forrestal's fire took out about 200 people and that left a big hole in DC party manning, but the Zoomie crew is even smaller.... Not optimistic if TSHTF.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2016-02-02 15:39|| 2016-02-02 15:39|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder if, in time of war, the crew size could be increased to beef up DC? It is a long swim home.

I wonder what the studies looked at.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-02 16:10|| 2016-02-02 16:10|| Front Page Top

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