{"id":14076,"date":"2016-10-18T13:21:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=14076"},"modified":"2016-10-18T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:21:53","slug":"us-navy-commissions-the-zumwalt-a-destroyer-like-no-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/10\/18\/us-navy-commissions-the-zumwalt-a-destroyer-like-no-other\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy commissions the Zumwalt, a destroyer like no other"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. Navy commissioned the stealthy, futuristic-looking battleship the USS Zumwalt on Saturday, a powerful new vessel that the Navy calls its \u201cmost technologically advanced warship.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ship is 610 feet long, weighs almost 15,000 tons, and cost a minimum of $4.4 billion, according to the Associated Press. Its distinctive, smooth appearance minimizes its radar signature.<\/p>\n

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The highly-automated destroyer needs a crew of only 147 people, and the Associated Press reports<\/a> that it will carry a variety of weapons, like cruise missiles and anti-submarine rockets. The Navy is proud of the ship\u2019s integrated power system, which it said can produce about 78 megawatts of power, approaching the capacity of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. According to the Navy, the Zumwalt\u2019s power system is robust enough to power its own systems \u201cand still generate enough electricity to power a small town.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ship is named for Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr, who served in the Navy for more than three decades and died in 2000.<\/p>\n

“This destroyer, like the others in our fleet, is capable of projecting power, no doubt,” Mabus said, in the statement. “The Zumwalt-class is much larger than today’s destroyers with a considerably larger flight deck — enough space to operate host Joint Strike Fighters, MV-22 Ospreys, and unmanned systems and a Vertical Launch System second to none.”<\/p>\n

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The ship\u2019s appearance isn\u2019t the only futuristic thing about it. Its captain has a name straight out of science fiction: James Kirk.<\/p>\n

Source: US Navy commissions the Zumwalt, a destroyer like no other | Fox News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Navy commissioned the stealthy, futuristic-looking battleship the USS Zumwalt on Saturday, a powerful new vessel that the Navy calls its \u201cmost technologically advanced warship.\u201d The ship is 610 feet long, weighs almost 15,000 tons, and cost a minimum of $4.4 billion, according to the Associated Press. Its distinctive, smooth appearance minimizes its radar signature. … The highly-automated destroyer needs a crew of only 147 people, and the Associated Press reports that it will carry a variety of weapons, like cruise missiles and anti-submarine rockets. The Navy is proud of the ship\u2019s integrated power system, which it said can produce about 78 megawatts of power, approaching the capacity of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. According to the Navy, the Zumwalt\u2019s power system is robust enough to power its own systems \u201cand still generate enough electricity to power a small town.\u201d The ship is named for Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr, who served in the Navy for more than three decades and died in 2000. “This destroyer, like the others in our fleet, is capable of projecting power, no doubt,” Mabus said, in the statement. “The Zumwalt-class is much larger than today’s destroyers with a considerably larger flight deck — enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2167,2166,2168],"class_list":["post-14076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-destroyer","tag-us-navy","tag-zumwalt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}