When the USS Zumwalt rolls out
of dry dock at Bath Iron Works in
Maine next year, the Navy's
newest warship will be 100 feet
longer than the destroyers
currently serving around the
globe—and nearly twice as
massive—yet it will have a radar
signature 50 times smaller and
will carry half the crew. Packed
bow to stern with state-of-the-
art radar, stealth, weapons, and
propulsion systems, the USS
Zumwalt, which will be
operational in mid-2016, will be
the most technologically
sophisticated warship ever to hit
the water.
A complement to Arleigh Burke–
class destroyers that currently
protect the Navy's prized aircraft
carriers from aerial attacks, the
Zumwalt-class destroyer is for
laying waste to land. It can evade
enemy detection; slip into the
shallows along foreign
coastlines; and deliver
devastatingly accurate firepower
hundreds of miles inland,
supporting special operations
ashore, clearing the way for
amphibious troop landings, or
knocking out air defenses. It's a
seaborne battering ram—a
specialized piece of equipment
for smashing in the enemy's
front door.
In the 1990s, the U.S. military
carried out successful
amphibious assaults in Somalia
and elsewhere. But as coastal
defenses around the world grew
more advanced—not least those
of Iraq, which would have been a
serious threat to U.S. troops had
they invaded Kuwait by sea
during Operation Desert Storm—
the Navy decided to build the
Zumwalt.
Traditional destroyers create
huge wakes and their hulls tend
to light up radar dishes. By
contrast, the angle of the
Zumwalt's hull reduces its radar
signature 50-fold (on radar it
looks like a fishing boat) and
slices through the water like a
600-foot harpoon, creating little
wake and making it more
difficult to see from both above
and below. Though it rides low,
the Zumwalt can operate in just
30 feet of water, scanning for
airborne and underwater threats
with planar-array radar and
advanced sonar.
If geopolitical events call for
securing nuclear facilities in an
unraveling North Korea or Iran,
the Zumwalt is the Navy's surest
way to arrive unannounced. From
the shallows, the Zumwalt can
then wipe out enemy defenses
up to 72 miles away. Sailors don't
cram shells into the dual 155-
millimeter guns nor do they clear
the casings. The guns are
controlled—point, click, boom—
by a computer in the command
center; they fire GPS-guided
shells, considered by the Navy to
be more like rockets than artillery
because of their ability to adjust
trajectory in flight. The ship also
carries a battery of SM-2
antiaircraft missiles, surface-
targeting Tomahawks, missile-
destroying ESSM interceptors,
and vertically launched ASROC
antisubmarine torpedoes, all
distributed among 80 missile
cells that line the Zumwalt's hull.
The location of the cells ensures
that the missiles can't all be
disabled by a single enemy strike
and serves as an extra layer of
defense around the ship.

after watching transformer 2 and 3 i now learnt that to be a soldier with better armour sweet oo...truly no country can fight u s a..

Who are they using this weapon to fight aliens

. . space Owned hahahahahah

Space booked. Lemme go and answer momsy b4 I comment. I'ld be back shortly

Stop lying, e wan kill itself?

wow

I didn't know that copying and pasting could get one to frontpage.

Arms folded

Battle ships are beginning to look like futuristic submarines.. Good for them let them not forget to give out ships they don't need to poorer nations

these guys are preparing for WW3 aka armaggedon . . .get ready

AME saw CAR....AME ri ika

It's attacking ability looks good but what's its defensive ability ? Like when it gets attacked, something like a missile defence shield.

Always battle ready. Troublesome country.

All these in a bid to kill man.

The Serpent is indeed in war with the Sons of the Queen.

No matter sophisticated, Naija military go still win with boat n canoe

No matter how sophisticated, Naija military go still win with boat n canoe

Okijajuju1: So... Basically, If Nigeria can just get 1 Ebola patient inside that ship, it becomes useless..



#TeamBiologicalWeapon..

Why Nigeria? Why not Liberia? We don't export ebola. And I doubt anyone would get close to that ship anyhow.

I get your humour though.

nice ship

molydonhenry: No matter how sophisticated, Naija military go still win with boat n canoe

Bros, film-trick movies wey u dey watch too much oooh

idupaul: Battle ships are beginning to look like futuristic submarines.. Good for them let them not forget to give out ships they don't need to poorer nations

Well, instead of doing that, they just blocked d delivery of Mistral-class warship contract between France and Russia. France, on Wednesday said it wil put on hold d delivery of d ship to Russia due to d later's role in d uprising in Ukraine.

MabraO: Space booked

I unbooked d space by tearing d pages into shreds, then ran inside and hid in my grandma's room.

MabraO:


Hehehe
Grandma's boy, ifa catch u ehn

Ehn, u mean ifa olokun? I fear it o. Sorry, I fear 'him'... I prefer entering voice mail ehn.

Okijajuju1: So... Basically, If Nigeria can just get 1 Ebola patient inside that ship, it becomes useless..



#TeamBiologicalWeapon..

you can mumu