Baptism of Zumwalt

12 April 2014 at the American shipbuilding enterprise Bath Iron Works of General Dynamics corporation in Bath (Maine) was held for six months late with the official ceremony of the baptism of a new type of destroyer of the United States Navy destroyer Zumwalt. Initially, the baptism ceremony was scheduled for October 1000 19 (even before launching), but due to the then default of the American government, it was postponed several times.

Bath Iron Works received a US $ 10 billion worth of US Department of Defense contract to build the lead ship DDG 1,4 Zumvalt 1000 February 14. The actual construction of the Zumwalt at the shipyard began on February 2008 11 of the year, and the official bookmark ceremony took place on November 2009 of the year 17. The ship was launched without much publicity on 2011 October 28, and is now in the process of completion afloat. Under the terms of the contract, the initial time for the transfer of the Zumwalt to the United States Navy for the testing program was in April 2013, but then it was postponed for a year, and now the start of testing is expected at best at the end of 2013. Entering the destroyer in the US Navy will be possible no earlier than 2014 year.

In 2009, the US Department of Defense made the final decision to limit the series of DDG 1000 Zumwalt-type ships to just three units. From the year 2010, Bath Iron Works is also building the second homogeneous destroyer DDG 1001 Michael Monsoor (his official bookmark ceremony was held on 23 on May 2013). The third ship DDG 1002 Lyndon B. Johnson was launched by building at the Bath Iron Works at the start of 2013.

The squadron destroyer DDG 1000 Zumwalt, who is being built for the US Navy at the Bath Iron Works enterprise of the corporation General Dynamics, a day before the baptism ceremony. Bath, 11.04.2014 (c) Halidon / www.militaryphotos.net

High-quality photo of the destroyer DDG 1000 Zumwalt being completed at the Bath Iron Works enterprise as of January 2014 of the year (c) snapshot of the factory newspaper of the Iron Iron Works shipyard for March 2014 of the year / www.militaryphotos.net

The squadron destroyer DDG 1000 Zumwalt during the baptism ceremony, which is being built for the US Navy at the Bath Iron Works corporation of General Dynamics Corporation. Bat, 12.04.2014 (c) Sam LaGrone

Comments

[fregina1]

Torpedo him aboard! HAPPY SWIMMING!

[jjj]

How is he with seaworthiness? How to behave in the wake?

[mamont5]

[quote = fregina1] Torpedo aboard him! HAPPY SWIMMING! drinks [
Swimming ... to the bottom?

[kostyan77708]

I think the hole from getting RCC will look more effective there)))))))

[Avdy]

Quote: fregina1

Torpedo him aboard! HAPPY SWIMMING!

There will be some joke when some old-school "Mosquito" lowers him to the bottom!

[bvi1965]

Quote: Avdy

Quote: fregina1

Torpedo him aboard! HAPPY SWIMMING!

There will be some joke when some old-school "Mosquito" lowers him to the bottom!

Two Papuans on an elastic band will not drown him.

[Civil]

No need to be obscurantists, Russia stealth destroyer identity needed!

[skiff-xnumx]

Then I agree with you, but just not so ugly.

[Kodar 75]

Nothing so canned)) For transportation of garbage, it would be useful

[WKS]

He’ll drown himself. Why spoil torpedoes?

[LaGlobal]

better volley of torpedoes, so for sure!

[Geisenberg]

Quote: fregina1

Torpedo him aboard! HAPPY SWIMMING!

what's true is true! big ship - a big tooped!

[JoylyRoger]

Well, the freak
Some kind of iron

[sir.jonn]

Quote: JoylyRoger

Some kind of iron

I thought the same thing when I looked at the picture.

[fregina1]

and AT ALL FROM THE PARTY THE TORQUE! WHO SOMETHING ARE SPORTS MUCH BABOS!

[Sergg]

Let the ships build as much as we like, we will sink them with our anti-ship weapons.
The more expensive the targets that the Americans are building, the happier our hits on the target.
I hate enemies of the Fatherland.

[kostyan77708]

Iron with an iron, and what is it in it? .... in general it looks like a craft from corton, in general, as I think it’s another cut, and like this .. to swim will be?? (specially did not write to walk, this word does not fit this product)

[Vedmed_23]

Yes, the campaign, they already realized that the garbage once limited to only the 3rd destroyers. It would be something worthwhile would put on the stream.

[Nonik]

Quote: Vedmed_23

Yes, the campaign, they already realized that the garbage once limited to only the 3rd destroyers. It would be something worthwhile would put on the stream.

No, it's just that they are very expensive, and that's why 3. Well, in general, the same story with stealth that is visible on our radars. But cool)

[VADEL]

We will wait for the next series about Bond (James Bond) with the participation of this piece of iron and its subsequent cutting as unnecessary.

[Aleksandr12]

And with this design, he will not bury his nose?

[kostyan77708]

this is apparently done on purpose, when anti-ballistic maneuvers dive under water))))

[Nonik]

Quote: Alexander12

And with this design, he will not bury his nose?

In olden times, ramming ships had similar noses, and Nitsche lived the same. Well, let's look at buoyancy. Somehow it should swim)

[HACTABHuK]

Yes, let them build on their health. For Onyxes and Gauges, it's like drowning a Zumwalt or Arleigh Burke. The more expensive the better.

[Prutkov]

Submarine.

[Burberry]

Quote: Rods

Submarine.

This is it before the first hit :)

[brainkiller]

such a one-piece cabin with one slope angle is made to reduce radar visibility. The breakwater is atypical, just to make it easier to go under water. =))

[Walk]

It is angular so that incorrect data about it (dimensions, distance to the target) is reflected on the radar. This is exactly the same as for airplanes.

[Moore]

I tell you truly, it is a ram. Ram "Peter the Great" ....

[brainkiller]

Well, the form never affects the accuracy of determining the speed or distance to the target. The shape changes only the energy of the reflected signal. These screens are aimed at reducing it, respectively, the detection range is reduced, that's all. As for the definition of the class - indeed this vessel will probably glow like a tugboat or patrol boat — but before the first light on our radars =) the EPR will be measured and entered in the corresponding target determination tables, that’s all.

[patsantre]

And how can knowing his true EPR help in detection?

[brainkiller]

No way, knowledge of EPR does not solve the problem of detection but target recognition. Although if you take the same stealth aircraft, their EPR is identical to a flock of ordinary birds passing through (ducks or geese I don’t know for sure), if the enemy had not resorted to such technologies, flocks of birds could still fly without checks to this day =)))

[PLO]

You confuse the terms EPR and the radar portrait (or signature).

[brainkiller]

Out of habit, out of habit, I put in some other characteristics that are not related to location issues. But if you think that such a characteristic as the EPR of a target does not play a major role in recognizing a target or detecting it, then the remark you made is understandable

[W.H.G.]

Let him drown soon. How much is allocated to us before the war? Everything resembles the beginning of the 19th century. There is no time, we need to hurry, no one will regret us !! We are alone in this world !!

[mojohed2012]

It recalls the beginning of the 20 century, and more specifically when Britain created its famous Dreadnought, sending all the latest armadillos to the past.
But only these dreadnoughts turned out to be expensive targets for German torpedoes.

[Artem1967]

Stealth technology in action. It is interesting to compare the cost, performance characteristics and seaworthiness with the existing "Orly Burks", is it worth the candle.

[VNP1958PVN]

I wish him to sink there due to technical calculations It is advisable already on Easter! God forgive me.

[naGua]

Very interesting body lines. In general, the "steamer" is interesting. Frankly, the hulls of ships of the battleship era come to mind. Moonzund, Tsushima, a sort of Battle of Jutland. A round of engineering evolution, so to speak, but at a higher level.

[Smiles to you]

Something, he recalled (visually), dreadnoughts, the beginning of the 20th century .. Another: modern and useless (question price) toy ...

[mojohed2012]

Well, what's the point of stealth? Their strike squadrons in the AUG go in a compact group, covering each other with ship systems of air defense systems, air defense, anti-aircraft defense, anti-tank missile systems, etc. Why does he need stealth in the Aircraft Carrier’s order?
We have created a missile system as part of a typical transport container. Immerse it in any transport or barge, and in case of such a zumwald from a fishing schooner, heat it at a time.

[Sars]

The next Zumvolt will be made of rock crystal for invisibility, and only albino sailors will serve on it!

[mojohed2012]

And why baptize an iron? There it is rather necessary to carry out a satanic rite or geyaction. Religion there is not the same; it is difficult to call it baptism.

[brainkiller]

I don’t think that a destroyer armed with modern missiles is a useless toy, in vain you are. At least the Navy threatened to arm, if not with the similar, then the best ship of this class. Just imagine for a second, for example, 40 onyxes in the center of the World Cup =) One such unit can cool the ardor of anyone =)

[Smiles to you]

Useless, meant: 1-price. 2-how effective it is. stealth. 3-modern missiles can arm, rearm, virtually any ship of the Navy ...

[brainkiller]

I’m not a ship engineer, but as far as I remember there was an article that it’s not so simple in terms of changing missiles. Price? Cheaper than a cruiser in any, but the range is not inferior. Stealth is effective if everything is done correctly and in combination. Ours, for example, does not shun even black paint, due to which it is rather difficult to determine the class of a ship in the visible range.

Regarding invisibility, this is not the main quality of the ship - but the quality is undeniably vital, I’m sure that this cabin was simply made from the outside by lightweight radio-reflecting screens (no one can reserve a top because it will turn upside down) and it’s not as expensive as it may seem. This is not radio absorption as on stealth where the price of coating by weight was many times more expensive than gold.

[PLO]

no Americans onyxes and in the foreseeable future will not appear

[patsantre]

LRASMs will appear.

[PLO]

LRASMs are far from Onyx

[nikcris]

If it is called squadron, then what kind of stealth is it? And if it is for independent "cruising", then where is the full stuffing of weapons?

[Committee]

It will be necessary - we will drown this trough!

[svp67]

Yes ... of course not handsome, but throwing him off the shields is not worth it, the enemy is serious, I would very much like to see the answer of our shipbuilders ...

[Login]

Again, envy through the teeth presses people?)
PS old Mosquito could put Peter to the bottom.

[mrDimkaP]

And our ships have more landfills!

[dro6a]

But will the superstructure be too tall?
Yes, when rolling, how will they be thrown there?

[nvn_co]

She doesn’t press envy, it’s just people quailing ... They built it, well done)))) There will be something to drown)))) I apologize, I also wanted to quit steaming))))
But interestingly, what will the Great Russian Navy respond to?

[patsantre]

I'm shocked by the comments, well, they just showered them with hats. Under-patriots. This is a very serious ship, and there is something to envy and to strive for in technological terms. Artillery, stealth technology and electronics at an unprecedented level. This is a technological masterpiece. Another question is its practical value. You can debate here for a long time, but the destroyer came out too expensive and complex for the series. We do not need its analogue (perhaps we need a more universal analogue), but there is room for growth and something to strive for, this ship is something like a standard. And the comments "yes, we'll hit him with a mosquito" are at the level of how if the Americans threatened to take out the S-400 division with two tomahawks.

[Evil Pole]

I agree with your post. Yes, by the way, how much dough will be needed later for its maintenance, training of personal staff, after all, the dreadnought of the last century, etc., etc., will have to be protected from "these arrogant and impudent Russians"

[brainkiller]

etozh how much dough will be needed subsequently for its maintenance

much less than the dreadnought of the last century - believe me. As for electronics - now its main property is ease of use, so you can be sure that the courses will not be too complicated or expensive. As for repair and maintenance, the hot reserve and the modular system (you can replace the idle unit with two or three gestures) have long been implemented in our and enemy equipment.

[nikcris]

Everything needs an adequate answer. El-mage. will the impulse knock out the electronics of an unprecedented level? Will the water hammer warp the hull? Or are we going to play "Sea Battle" on a piece of paper in a box?

[patsantre]

And what kind of electromagnetic and hydrokinetic weapon do we have, can you tell me?

[brainkiller]

probably any nuclear meant.

[patsantre]

If it comes to this, the fleet will no longer be needed ...

[Nonik]

Quote: patsantre

And what kind of electromagnetic and hydrokinetic weapon do we have, can you tell me?

The film "Sea Battle" is recalled

[Andrey78]

Quote: JoylyRoger

Well, the freak
Some kind of iron

Another vundervaflya as F-117.

[Yozhik]

And what about his seaworthiness and weapons? Why the hell do you need it?

[oblako]

Come on, again, we’ll leave our hats. It is necessary to study how he shoots 80 km from the railgun, how electricity redistributes, and then talk about how to heat, and what to make his ships from ... I guess they do not clean railguns with brick?

[PLO]

It is necessary to study how he shoots 80 km from the railgun

no railslotrons there

[Sigizbarn]

I liked the last words about the "Peace through force" division of this ship.
Does it remind anyone of anything?

[vasek-3180]

What the fucking baptism ... Put a satanic pentogram on board, just in topic

[razved]

To the big ship - a big torpedo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!