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    Stealthy USS Zumwalt Destroyer to Fire New Missiles, Laser Weapons

    Stealthy USS Zumwalt Destroyer to Fire New Missiles, Laser Weapons

    The Zumwalt is getting ready for its first operational deployment. It doesn't have laser's yet, but soon will.

    (National Harbor, Md.)[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] The US Navy’s stealthy new first-of-its kind destroyer will incinerate targets with lasers, fire advanced weapons to destroy moving targets at sea and use upgraded interceptor missiles to track and knock-out approaching enemy fire -- all as part of a broader strategic shift to prepare the high-tech ship for massive, “blue-water” maritime warfare on the open seas.

    [/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]The USS Zumwalt, now going through combat and weapons activation in anticipation of its first deployment, will receive new Maritime Tomahawk missiles able to track and explode moving targets at sea, SM-6 IA interceptors, long-range precision guns and -- quite likely in the very near future - laser weapons, according to the DDG 1000-USS Zumwalt Program Manager, Naval Sea Systems Command, Capt. Kevin Smith.

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    [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]“We are no longer what is called a land attack that operates in the littorals. We are now an offensive surface strike platform for blue water The Navy made a decision to go that way - for good reason,” Smith said, speaking at the Navy League’s Annual Sea Air Space Symposium.[/COLOR]
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    [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]The Zumwalt, he said, is specifically engineered with the space, weight and power configurations able to accommodate a new generation of weapons. “The inherent capability of the ship, with respect to its signatures and capacity as far a space, weight, power and cooling...means there is huge margin here to do a lot of things in the future,” Smith said.

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    [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]Regarded as the most advanced warship ever built, the Zumwalt uses an electric drive with an Integrated Power System engineered to more quietly and efficiently propel the ship as well as generate enormous volumes of on-board electrical power for computing, maintenance and weapons. Power “surge” capacity, is exactly what is needed to fire laser weapons, Smith said.[/COLOR]
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    Don't it have the Rail Gun too?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    Don't it have the Rail Gun too?
    They tested a rail gun. I am unclear about whether it will be part of the TOE.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    They tested a rail gun. I am unclear about whether it will be part of the TOE.
    I want to see the rail gun take out a hypersonic missile. That will be the tell. Once it does, The Russians and Chinese will $#@! their pants.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    I want to see the rail gun take out a hypersonic missile. That will be the tell. Once it does, The Russians and Chinese will $#@! their pants.
    Lasers could do it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Lasers could do it.
    Yeah, and as I hear it both Russians and Chinese are putting lasers up in Space. Able to take out SATS or even fired down on the planet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    Yeah, and as I hear it both Russians and Chinese are putting lasers up in Space. Able to take out SATS or even fired down on the planet.
    We should as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    We should as well.
    We are lagging so far behind its ridiculous. But then that is what the Demos have caused. Sequestration only made the problem worse.
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