USS Zumwalt DDG-1000 stealth destroyer commander: The ship is fully prepared for war at sea

The Western press published an interview with the commander (in the American tradition - the captain) of the stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) Andrew Carlson. The interview discusses the goals that the command sets before the newest ship of the US Navy. This discussion is particularly noteworthy due to the fact that in the USA itself, destroyers of the Zamvolt type have been criticized recently. The fact is that if initially they were positioned as ocean-type attack units, now the command has determined a niche for them to support landing operations.

According to Captain Carlson, the USS Zumwalt is a unique warship that represents “a new milestone in the confrontation between the leading maritime powers.” According to Andrew Carlson, the ship had to go through a large number of adjustments, changes, including adjustments to the main objectives of its use.

Question from the correspondent:

What would you call the unique control problems of this ship and its crew compared to most other ships?

Andrew Carlson:

Of course, a process control with full confidence in automation comes to mind, the integration of advanced technologies with a minimum staffing option. However, none of these problems is unique to Zumwalt.

According to an American naval officer, a trained crew is urgently needed for the USS Zumwalt, which is constantly improving its skills.

In an interview, it was noted that while the campaigns of the head "Zamvolt" are actually carried out in an experimental (experimental-combat) version. The crew is exploring the capabilities of a warship equipped with tactical strike weapons.

Andrew Carlson:

The crew is mastering new technologies. They are everywhere. The organization of the power supply system, automated control systems, even the case itself is a completely new configuration.

The DDG-1000 commander was asked how to motivate the crew of a warship whose capabilities (Zamvolta) are not used 100 percent.

According to Captain Carlson, the sailors understand that at this stage the ship will be deployed in an experimental version and that in any case they will have a lot of work to do. Andrew Carlson added that the DDG-1000 Zumwalt is “fully prepared for war at sea” and “has the advantage of missile weapons and reduced visibility.”

Andrew Carlson notes that the ship has low radar and thermal (infrared) visibility. The second is achieved by a new system of energy consumption and spent fuel emissions.

American naval officer:

The privilege of commanding a concentrated group of talented, mature and cheerful sailors reinforces the ongoing understanding of the principle that people in any case mean more than systems on board a warship.

Comments

[tihonmarine]

The privilege of commanding a concentrated group of talented, mature and cheerful sailors reinforces the ongoing understanding of the principle that people in any case mean more than systems on board a warship.

True words, people always mean more than systems on a ship.

[figwam]

Putin raised the army and navy in alarm, apparently Azerbaijan and Armenia are on the verge of a big conflict.

[tralflot1832]

Rather, with the US "signal", you have a convoy with a tank battalion in Poland, if we are ready. It's a pity that the marine traffic of warships does not show the position, only by cossven signs it can be understood that what is wrong in this area will be met by the BF. By the evening we are waiting for the statement of the State Department that they should be warned of sudden military verification, otherwise the Hegemon is not ready, before that he
after our next unscheduled check, I started at the wrong time of the maintenance of the fan systems in the Pentagon and NATO.

[Alex777]

Putin raised the army and navy in alarm

Where is the audit conducted and where is Azerbaijan located?

[figwam]

Quote: Alex777

Where is the audit conducted and where is Azerbaijan located?

"During the inspection, 56 tactical-level exercises will be conducted at 35 training grounds and training fields, 17 marine training grounds in the waters of the Black and Caspian Seas."

Let me remind you that Armenia and Azerbaijan are located between the Black and Caspian Seas.

[Alex777]

Who should have already fussed.
https://topwar.ru/173201-ukraina-provedet-sobstvennye-voennye-uchenija-v-otvet-na-kavkaz2020.html

[TermNachTer]

Not so far away, they are testing forces and assets in the North. Caucasus, Kuban, Stavropol Territory. By today's standards, you can add up, if something happens. And the Armenians have another reason to think who is their friend, and who is so, went for a walk.

[Alex777]

IMHO, of course, but those wishing to withdraw from the Minsk agreements are a much bigger problem for us than Armenia.

[eklmn]

“Putin raised the army and navy in alarm ...”
Well, what else can an unmarried bachelor do at night?
Play Tanks !!!

[rosomaha]

we can burn too ...

[Alex777]

If these 7 billion are burned, it will be very cool ...

[Klingon]

Carlson? Is this the one that lives on the roof? Hey Baby! and where is that electromagnetic gun that you promised to bring me to this trough ??

[Vol4ara]

Quote: Klingon

Carlson? Is this the one that lives on the roof? Hey Baby! and where is that electromagnetic gun that you promised to bring me to this trough ??

It’s not atomic, how could seriously consider these statements

[Klingon]

why not consider this option? the Chinese, as an experiment, shoved electromagnetic drin onto the non-nuclear UDC type 072

[TermNachTer]

And how can this be seriously and publicly stated?

[Aaron Zawi]

In principle, of course, all these three ships will be primarily laboratories of the US Navy for the introduction of new technologies, and participation in the database today is generally extremely hypothetical.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Aron Zaavi

all three of these ships will be primarily the laboratories of the U.S. Navy to introduce new technologies

I already wrote about this. Invested money, and the money is very large, will always pay off in the future. Although many do not understand this.

[Grazdanin]

Quite right, the current composition is more than enough, the same FREMM frigates can quickly increase the number of ships in the fleet, if necessary. But I would not consider the Zumwalt a purely experimental ship, 240 tomahawks in total will always come in handy.

[Vol4ara]

Quote: Grazdanin

Quite right, the current composition is more than enough, the same FREMM frigates can quickly increase the number of ships in the fleet, if necessary. But I would not consider the Zumwalt a purely experimental ship, 240 tomahawks in total will always come in handy.

Maybe they’ll send them to shoot on bearded men, but it’s more like an excuse for the congress, as a laboratory, it is much more important

[Thunderbolt]

Quote: Aron Zaavi

In principle, of course, all these three ships will be primarily laboratories of the US Navy for the introduction of new technologies, and participation in the database today is generally extremely hypothetical.

And it seems to me that Zumwalt is ready as the latest platform, but the development of the "main caliber" for it is late. Therefore, they pour into the ears of their taxpayers and hostile foreign intelligence services that Zumwalt will be, oh, how good, with the support of landing operations, etc.

[Grazdanin]

Quote: Thunderbolt

here the development of the "main caliber" for him is late

Yeah, relstones in trials.

[Thunderbolt]

Such energy can be used for more "peaceful purposes". For example, electronic warfare.
By the way, today there is an article about Trump's "super-dupers". They say that they have to wait at least 3 more years. So maybe they want to stick these "dupers" in Z. & what other platforms? Nothing is really known - defense departments like to hide such secrets from outsiders. And the common man in the street is the last to know. So there can be many versions.

[Grazdanin]

Zumwalt to hit the ground, he needs the appropriate weapons. These hypersonic missiles are like for strikes on the ground, which means they will put first and foremost on these destroyers. Lasers, electronic suppression systems are needed for air defense and missile defense; other ships are responsible for them in the Navy. And so, EW systems are on all US warships and aircraft.

[Thunderbolt]

Quote: Grazdanin

Zumwalt for striking the ground

I think this is a temporary, transitional excuse, that on the ground. Their Navy is actively developing a combination of surface drones - Triton drones. And they are engaged in large underwater vehicles. If they can deploy such a sensor network in the ocean, then the latest destroyer can take the position of the coordinator of the naval operation and the main strike force there. It will be much cheaper and more dangerous to use it than a full-fledged old-style AUG. So, the Chinese will have surprises in the Ocean. While they are learning to rivet many, many "Berks" and have not even approached the catapult aircraft carriers yet, their enemy is reaching a new technological level.

Quote: Grazdanin

And so, EW systems are on all US warships and aircraft.

EW power depends on energy. Z. it is stronger than the predecessors. Floating power plants / supposedly for railguns /. Modern armies and navy are becoming increasingly dependent on electronics. The past war was a war of motors, the future can be a war of sensors and stealth.

[Grazdanin]

Quote: Thunderbolt

I think this is a temporary, transitional excuse that the earth

Other modifications can be made, but now they are lacking strike ships, there are a lot of air defense and missile defense systems, there are 67 of them alone and are still under construction. Specifically, the three built will remain shock, the following can be anything. In general, they liked the concept, but these ships were ahead of time. After 5 years, they will be relevant.

Quote: Thunderbolt

If they can deploy such a sensor network in the ocean, then the newest destroyer can take the post of coordinator of the naval operation there.

I agree, 40 unmanned surface ships according to plan. True to them UDC asks. For transportation and management. But they need powerful PLO destroyers. U-boats are the main danger.

Quote: Thunderbolt

While they are learning to rivet many, many "Berks" and have not even approached the catapult aircraft carriers yet, their enemy is reaching a new technological level.

Before burks they still have at least 10-20 years of work. They would have grown to the level of the USSR of the 80s to begin with. They build many ships, but they are archaic, “blind” and “deaf”. For example, 052 people serve on the destroyer 7500D (280 tons), 7000 will serve on future American FREMM frigates (140 tons)

Quote: Thunderbolt

The past war was a war of motors, the future can be a war of sensors and stealth.

The next war will be the drone war. UAVs driven already fly, unmanned submarines and ships began to arrive in service, BP orbital planes 10 years already in space.

[yustas]

I'm afraid to upset you, but a simple man in the street is the first, in fact, will see their purpose

[Avior]

No, rocket for UVP MK57.
They are not yet until adapted from MK41

[TermNachTer]

And not too expensive, even for mattresses, three such laboratories? Could be limited to one.

[Thunderbolt]

Quote: TermNachTER

And not too expensive, even for mattresses, three such laboratories? Could be limited to one.

I believe that this / these / is not a laboratory / and /, but the most advanced technology to eat. And having built 3 seemingly similar ships, American shipbuilders groped for "pitfalls" on their construction and are ready to bypass them. The shipyards are waiting, the shipyards are hungry, but the Pentagon is specifically slowing down the laying of destroyers of a new look. The work is honed, the resources ... yes, just give a cry- - the coal kings will instantly rush in on coal carts, cutting off the oil marshals at turns !!! So he knows a little more than shipbuilders. Admirals generally die in silence, but in this situation the admirals have become hostages of the design bureau. And it happens ... There are ships, and weapons for them are still in testing.

[Victorio]

yes, there is money, you can work in different directions and experiment

[Crabong]

Which is to be expected ...

[orionvitt]

now the command has identified a niche for them to support amphibious operations.

At such a pace, they will soon be demoted to the rank of patrol ships of the coast guard.

command a concentrated group of talented, mature and cheerful sailors

And how are they in the carriage with quotas for "cheerful gays", different colored (black, red, yellow, white is optional), women and other things. Fuck professionalism, give tolerance.

[Angelo Provolone]

Beautiful ship. The reverse stem is impressive

[tralflot1832]

This is his ram, in case of weapons failure. Last hope. Just kidding. Below the waterline, I wonder how it looks. Secret?

[voyaka uh]

"Classified?" ////
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Not. Here you are:

[tralflot1832]

Thank you. But such a plan does not work, the HOOK is in the expected place. There are no sizes for the frames. There is no revolution below the water line. Two screws. Everything is as usual. Maybe it doesn’t rattle across the ocean like the last English corvettes. The English themselves call them a bucket with bolts.

[voyaka uh]

Well, he has an electric drive. The work is silent. Draft if
You noticed very high. Can go in shallow water.
Wake trail three times shorter than conventional ships
this size. In the storm he has almost no bowing - cuts
the wave.
A lot of unusual for a large ship of the first class.

[tralflot1832]

The electric drive is not powered by a battery. It’s generating electricity from it. Diesel makes a lot of noise, GTU also makes noise but less. It cuts the wave during a storm, between the bottom of the transmitted wave and the top of the next wave, sometimes in a good storm in the North Atlantic, the elevation is more 20 meters. I would like to see him cut the wave of many thousands. The ships with the nasal tip according to the patent of Norway and Iceland cut the wave. His nose with the nose of the norg has nothing to do. If you say he will cut the wave into a really good at first he will lose the bow artillery, and if he persists on the bridge, he’ll cut out. 25 years I’ve gone to sea I know what I’m saying. portholes and shifted the fisherman's cabin. Let's look further at his life.

[Avior]

He doesn’t even have windows, but actually has Windows. Although made of special glass.
Holds like a wave, it turns out

[tralflot1832]

If the captain takes such an expensive "toy" into a serious storm, more than 7 points; for his further career, I will not give a dime. Expedition yachts, I think this is a PR move for future owners. Well, they will add a couple of millimeters to the thickness of the side, so that a wave or piece of ice the side did not break. Yes, such a bow gives, of course, a slight advantage on slight waves. The pitching goes less like on the rails, but a maximum of 6 -7 points. Yacht habitats are where the weather is mostly calm, closer to the equator. And there are places where there is a storm once in five-year, and so the surface of the sea "water in a swamp." Even in the northern seas, this phenomenon happens.

[Avior]

I understand that a warship has less choice at what time and where to sail, but this is an ocean yacht of 6 thousand tons, and it can still get into different situations, purely by accident, just

[tralflot1832]

Accidentally, such yachts do not have a word at all. They use satellite on-line weather forecast in a storm, they do not climb. The captain of the yacht does not need the owner or his guests to bleat. On the first voyage he himself died from rolling for three days, although it was practically not 5 degrees to the right 5 degrees volitionally. Then I didn’t even notice 25. The cabin was in the bow so there was also pitching, the amplitude upwards downwards of 15 meters and nothing slept perfectly. The steamer 120 meters displacement under 7000 tons. And how many times in the company cabin during the reception food, the pan rose into the air and by itself flew only in a known trajectory, while not spilling a single gram of borsch until it hit the target. Until now, I still can't get rid of the habit of eating the first one holding the plate in weight in my left hand. This show begins after 6 -7 points.

[tralflot1832]

For the sake of interest. Captains of fishing vessels are allowed to fish in waves up to 7 points, and above it is at the discretion of the captain and under his personal responsibility. among them are baptized.

[Avior]

As I understand it, if in the ocean, sooner or later you will get a serious storm, just by chance

[tralflot1832]

In case of an accident hitting a storm, the owner of the yacht will have a paper on the table with the name, surname and the title of "accident". There will be no more accidents on board his yacht. If you want to trot, buy a sailing yacht, as they have accepted this business.

[Avior]

After all, yachts are overhauled without the owner and guests, quite often
This owner can fly by plane wherever he wants, the yacht flies.
And if the owner urgently requires a yacht to some Acapulco, where he flew, then the problems of the crew's condition do not bother him much

[tralflot1832]

Everything can be he is the owner. But without the owner on board the main captain. But there are miracles. 10 years ago Abramovich was refueled with poor quality fuel his entire mighty yacht fleet. Bottom line: All diesel engines are on an unscheduled repair. The rich also sometimes cry.

[Avior]

I mean, the probability of getting into a storm on an ocean yacht is high anyway.
It was interesting for me, I specifically searched the Internet for a video of how Zamvolt or this yacht behaves in a storm, but unfortunately, I never found it, only with a small wave.
But as operation progresses, I think sooner or later we will see such a video, then it will be possible to discuss in detail, in my opinion

[tralflot1832]

I gave you a link on the noses of the courts. Look at how these behave, fascinates.

[tralflot1832]

There is a storm for every ship. A couple of years ago, when the Norwegians set up the board of a tanker. The Americans drove their AUG closer to our shores. More precisely, between Norway and Iceland. They wanted to demonstrate their determination. And at the point of launching the aircraft, the 12th storm. We had to go much further south. They also know how to count money, realizing that from this new launch point of the Russian planes you will not annoy the Russians, the range is not enough, made several take-offs and landings on duty and left in their own way. This is how a 12-point storm thwarted a 100-ton aircraft carrier from completing the task. passed minus Norwegians, a hole in the UDC, they managed to find an underwater rock. That's what the weather means. We also sometimes get from the weather.

[tralflot1832]

Revolutionary bow of the ship against the storm is inverted, technology X BOW. For me, so "freak" concrete. We will get used to nothing.

[rotmistr60]

the command identified a niche for them to support landing operations.

And this despite the statements that were made a couple of years ago - the pride of the US Navy, unsinkable, tk. invisible ... Then the problems began on the first miles of leaving the port and away we go. Interestingly, in the future, the niche of use may turn out to be different (lower in rank)? Smiled about the "cheerfulness" of the crew

[engineer74]

now the command has identified a niche for them to support amphibious operations.

For which I respect the mattresses, any crap will be justified!
Will they support the landing with 2x155 artillery? In a duel with land batteries? Or strategic, in fact, Axes with a launch range of ~ 2000 km? For these purposes it was necessary to clone the "Missouri" ...
Although, of course, experience in operating a new generation ship will be gained

[ved_med12]

a unique warship, which represents “a new milestone in the confrontation of leading naval powers”


check out this "new milestone" with something like khibins or something more powerful ..

[engineer74]

The worst thing for products of this level of complexity is the "human factor". A head-on collision with an idiot, not a single automatic device has yet survived ...
IMHO

[tralflot1832]

To test it, it is enough to drive it into a 12-point storm in NEA and see what remains of it. No khibins are needed.

[yfast]

Maybe he is inconspicuous, but also visually impaired. Like a rhino. But the rhino has no problems with this.

[Sergey Kulikov_3]

But how is it that now even submarines find visible water disturbances, and this wunderwafer in the form of an iron is considered invisible !?

[voyaka uh]

His radio profile for surface ship radars is comparable to the profiles of a fishing schooner. Therefore, it is possible to mislead the enemy and get close to him. And the wake trace is unusually short. What confuses the display from satellites

[Uma palata]

I have been living in such a world for many years, for the first time I see a floating iron.

[Whirlwind]

The fact is that if initially they were positioned as ocean-type attack units, now the command has determined a niche for them to support landing operations.

And de enty operations will be? And against whom? It's one thing against Venezuela, which is close at hand and unarmed ... And another thing against our Far East, where this iron needs to crawl thousands of miles away, and where, long before approaching the battle distance, its super-hyper hyper-rocket-projectile bullet, will be sunk together with the landing party, don't go to grandma ...

[Scorp 1981]

a good ocean storm will hardly endure)) judging by the appearance)))