Monday 2 December 2013

I Quite Like Boats

or ships,  


so I was quiet intrigued when I saw this picture of a new US Navy boat being built, it is the most technologically advanced warship ever constructed, the ship's electricity comes from gas-powered turbines, which together generate up to 78 megawatts of power, under normal conditions, the operating systems of the ship and the engines use only 20 of those megawatts, so the ship has 58 left over for weapons, 


especially future weapons: Railguns and lasers, both long in development for the Navy, could be used as the boat has more than enough electricity to meet these weapons' intense energy demands, of course, future weapons alone do not a warship make, it will enter service armed with two long-range guns that fire guided artillery shells up to 72 miles away, two smaller guns to protect the boat from ships that get too close, and 80 different missile launch points, grouped in 20 sets of four,


the boat is also stealthy, its weird construction—sharp edges and sloping surfaces—mean that it shows up on radar as nothing larger than a "small fishing vessel," despite being 610 feet long and displacing 15,000 tons of water, also in the good news department is that the boat is expected to have a crew of only 154, about half that of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers currently in service,

and here she is, the Zumwalt, she is yet to be Christen but could be on a sea near you soon.

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