Captain James Kirk to command new Navy destroyer

Very cool, and a pretty cool boat too. Big bucks!

They shoulda named it the Enterprise too. Does it have Phasers?

LOL wrote: Very cool, and a pretty cool boat too. Big bucks!

They shoulda named it the Enterprise too. Does it have Phasers?

Big bucks to the 10'th power. As I recall the Navy spent a bazzion bucks in R&D and over a decade. Most of the Star Trek technologies were a flop. Building 3 ships of a class is monumental stupidity. Maintenance for a 3 ship class of ship is like burning more $. Good thing the gov. has $ to burn what with the surpluses we have been running for years.

IMO the only reason they are building any are to try and save face. I wonder if they chose the first C O based on his name to add a little deflection to the fiasco.

http://www.seaforces.org/usnships/ddg/Zumwalt-class.htm

..."As of January 2009, the GAO found that only four out of 12 of the DDG-1000's critical technologies were mature.

The lead ship will be named Zumwalt for Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, and carries the hull number DDG-1000. Originally 32 ships were planned for the class, but this was progressively cut down to two, with three to be built currently. The Navy expects each ship to cost nearly $3.3 billion. The DOD's proposed 2010 budget called for three DDG-1000 ships to be produced."...

The USS Enterprise has already been assigned to CVN-80, CVN-65, and CV-6 preceded her.



Enterprise's home port was Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia as of September 2012.[13] Her final deployment, the last before her decommissioning, began on 10 March 2012 and ended 4 November 2012. She was inactivated on 1 December 2012, with her official decommissioning taking place sometime after the completion of an extensive terminal offload program currently underway.[14][15] The name has been adopted by the future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-80).[16][17]

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28CVN-65%29

While the USS Zumwalt is a sexy beast, she and her sister ships are being commissioned at a time when their specialized roles are not in demand. IMHO the money would have been better spent on new ships modeled after the current iteration of the USS Wasp (LHD-1).



USS Wasp (LHD 1) is a U.S. Navy multipurpose amphibious assault ship. She is the tenth USN vessel to bear the name and was the flagship of the Second Fleet and the lead ship of her class. She was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in Pascagoula, Mississippi. USS Wasp and her sister ships are the first specifically designed to accommodate new Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) for fast troop movement over the beach and Harrier II (AV-8B) Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) jets which provide close air support for the assault force. Wasp, which is 257 m long (843 ft) with a beam of 32 meters (105 ft), also accommodates the full range of Navy and Marine Corps helicopters, conventional landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wasp_%28LHD-1%29

Will green alien women be allowed to serve aboard ship too?

FredHayek wrote: Will green alien women be allowed to serve aboard ship too?

Probably but the transfers from Area 51 would be conducted on a covert basis and while on board the aliens would have to remain below decks during daylight hours...

Speaking of big bucks to the tenth power, how about this Son of blackbird, the rumored Skunk Works SR-72
hypersonic Mach 6 Whoohoooo!

Wonder what kind of gas mileage it gets?

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.asp ... 632731.xml