The Navy's Biggest Disaster is Back

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I had a lot of fun coming up with condescending nicknames for this thing.

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[Justin_Taylor]

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Give more nicknames for the zumwalt down below please.

[nekomakhea]

Zumwalt is the pinnacle of "we can't get rid of it because that would mean admitting we were wrong"

[kopykat]

As a naval nerd, I fucking love the Zumwalt so much. Conceptually.

It is an absolute and utter god-damned sin how hard they fucking fumbled it.

[hugmynutus]

"Never take a contract with the navy, they'll bankrupt you before they figure out what they actually want." - Kelly Johnson.

[swordmonkey]

The Zumwalt was a "we build the ship and pray the tech for the railgun is ready in time" sort of thing. The downside was when the Navy cancelled the railgun... which left the Zumwalt without its party trick.

[anotherscandinavian]

Well, they got some railings now. So that's a plus.

[fuzzydunlop]

Ngl the Zumwalt in Dazzle-flauge kinda slaps.

[existentialselkath]

Who's 'lagging behind' who in hypersonics is entirely down to the definition. By the US definition, nobody has hypersonics. By Russias definition, the US has had them for decades.

[NotWhatYouThink]

You take your video ideas from the comment section? Hmmmm ...

[Lunokh]

couple of things I wanted to point out

in 1994 the Burke was brand new, the 21st century combatant program was about starting the long term project for the replacement early so that the advanced tech had time to develop

The US is not lagging behind on Hypersonics, China and Russia just classify anything that passes mach 5 at any point a hypersonic, the US only considers it a hypersonic if it maneuverable at mach 5 and travel and impact at mach 5+, by the russian and chinese definition the Minuteman missiles are "hypersonics"

[Tricky]

The actual design of the Zumwalt was on point in terms of stealth and stability. It's a great platform that just needed a purpose post ammunition cancelation

[gardnert]

These will basically be surface-only ballistic missile subs.

[BosonCollider]

As a software engineer, the Burke and Zumwalt is the reason why sqlite exist. Sqlite is the most installed piece of software in the world, you likely have one copy of it per app on your phone where it is responsible for storing your data without data corruption bugs. Similarly, if you use chrome, firefox, or safari, it's what your web browser uses to save your bookmarks, cookies, and cache

It wasn't planned and it was a one-man project from a guy who happened to work on battleship targeting systems and who was immeditately annoyed by its insane unnecessary complexity.

[notlogical]

The US never fell behind in hypersonic, we just classify them differently. Every ballistic missile goes hypersonic at some point during its flight path, but being able to maneuver while maintaining hypersonic speed (to my understanding) is what we use to classify a missile as hypersonic. Russia and China don’t have hypersonics either.

[hestan]

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For what Zumwalt was supposed to fix, it was the cost issue of fighting asymetric opponent with weapons made for bigger foe, just like the LCS

It was supposed to be an "arsenal ship" capable of supporting a landing assault.

So even if the Zumwalt did work as intended, it would have ended up playing a role that is no longer a priority with the comeback of high intensity conflicts and naval battle against peer opponent like China

[DarthVader-oiow]

I still think how ironic is the name. The pinnacle of cost ineffective ship carries the name of an admiral, that argued for cost effective navy with his High-low doctrine.

[InternetzSpaceshipz]

Another issue is that tumblehome hulls are extremely vulnerable to flooding, if this thing does get a hole in the waterline, the chances of it sinking are much higher than an arleigh burke.

[michaeldonnelly]

The Zumalt's were also needed to replace the Iowa BBs in the shore bombardment/amphibious assault roll. So that didn't work out, either. Hence, the Marine Corp is now planning on using HIMARS on the deck of Amphibious Assault ships. Adapt and overcome, rinse, wash and repeat.

[matthewschoen]

Linecrosser has a good video on the misnomer of "hypersonic." The US has had ordinance capable of achieving hypersonic speeds since the Second World War, but it doesn't fly at *sustained* hypersonic speed.

[GusCraft]

As soon as someone said “stealth destroyer” the Zumwalt should have been cancelled. We already had stealth destroyers. They’re called submarines, and they’re better at both stealth and destroying than the Zumwalt ever could be.