Why is the navy this bad? How did this piece of shit happen?
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Why is the navy this bad? How did this piece of shit happen?
Christopher Thompson
Carter Mitchell
literally an overpriced prototype and technology demonstrator
Jaxson Myers
Next time post the topic and not just a picture of the open ocean, thanks
Nathaniel Richardson
Could use some dazzle camo
Josiah Sanchez
Why it looks so fucking ugly
Nathaniel Phillips
except it was suppose to be more than that
Oliver Parker
>piece of shit
Dude, that thing made 800.000 $US for every single shell.
That's what I call profit!
Josiah Flores
Werent they supposed to replace the arleigh burkes?
Ian Bennett
The Zumwalt was definitely supposed to be more than a tech demo and development platform — but that’s what is. If Congress does the right thing the technology being developed from it won’t go to waste.
Levi Brown
So was the F22 except now it's the best fighter in the world.
Ethan Ortiz
The worst part about this is that they went back to building on a 30 year old design. RIP US Navy.
Tyler Nguyen
greyscale is the new dazzle
Henry Wood
>posts articles from years to a decade ago
That's not even good enough bait to get a picture about it being bait.
Henry Murphy
Threadly reminder that parts of this """warship""" are made of balsa wood
Brandon Smith
wood composite and basla wood are not the same thing
Andrew Carter
Congress is the reason there are only three and that each ship became so expensive.
Christopher Clark
Its kinda cool though
Owen Cooper
Better than the alternative
Levi Harris
It's been on the drawing board for so long that they've switched between nuclear and diesel at least twice
Brandon Cox
I don't understand why they would build a stealth ship who's primary objective is fire support
Ryan Thomas
This.
>Starts thread about boats; Posts picture of boatless sea
Ryan Wood
That thing would be shit. It's only 2d! And look how small it is. What good is a foot long warship?!
Asher Garcia
>That thing would be shit.
Agreed
>It's only 2d! And look how small it is. What good is a foot long warship?!
It would be almost as big as a Kirov (assuming the vatniks ever get the funding)
Joseph Brooks
>In development hell for over a decade
>no agreement on powerplant
>weird non-standardized VLS
It just blows
Juan Moore
Looks like it has a xmas tree on it
Henry Bennett
>F22 best fighter in the world
Nope
Kayden Flores
Jayden Thomas
>The F-22 can't shoot down planes we don't build!
Zachary Bailey
Recruiting tool. Stop being naive.
Camden Bennett
>We
I'm not Russian, dummy.
Joshua Sanders
F-22 was needed, so it got the institutional support it needed. Zumwalt is a wank from braindead faggots like McCain who were butthurt about losing their Iowas, so it was allowed to founder as the needs of the Navy pointed towards more Burkes
Mason Cruz
>>weird non-standardized VLS
That's one of the best features
Jeremiah Williams
kek
Easton Ross
It isn't uncommon for the first few ships of a type to have some serious teething problems that are worked out for subsequent builds.
Jose Hernandez
I don't see anything to shoot at here...
Caleb Collins
With only few dozen produced it is going to be a very rare plane compared to the mass produced American whore planes!
Zachary Walker
What, the fixed inflexible loadout?
Something this big could fill multiple roles (independent cruising, fleet defense, bombardment duty), which would require different missiles than and isn't possible with the system-specific cold war hardware the russkies apparently want to mount on their first 21st-century ship
Benjamin Baker
So it is a cruiser, rather then destroyer
>50 years service
yeah right.
Henry Reyes
years service
>yeah right.
Lord knows they're getting a lot of mileage from Soviet hardware built in the 80s
Some Tu-95s are as old as the boneyard B-52 fleet but were never retired...
Jeremiah Gonzalez
>Lord knows they're getting a lot of mileage from Soviet hardware built in the 80s
they are not
>Some Tu-95s are as old as the boneyard B-52
they are not a single 95 older than early 1980
the fuck you on nigger ?
Evan Rogers
>not a single 95 older than early 1980
I thought the MS "variant" was just an overhaul of an existing airframe to a specification?