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| Tango01 | 16 Feb 2018 9:36 p.m. PST |
….weapons and a new mission: killing ships "The Navy has a new vision for what its enormous high-tech destroyers will do: Killing enemy warships at extended ranges. The Navy is asking Congress to fund a conversion of its 600-foot stealth destroyers from primarily a land attack ship to an anti-surface, offensive strike platform, according to budget documents released Feb. 12. The service's 2019 budget request includes a request for $89.7 USD million to transform its Zumwalt-class destroyers by integrating Raytheon's long-range SM-6 missile, which can dual hat as both an anti-air and anti-surface missile, as well as its Maritime Strike variant of the Tomahawk missile…"
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| Lion in the Stars | 18 Feb 2018 7:19 a.m. PST |
That job is better served by submarines… The Zumwalts can't operate with other ships because they'd reveal the position, and you can't really shoot missiles into ships at long range unless you don't care which ships get killed. Be horrible if the Enemy Du Jour's ships were mixed in with ships from people we aren't shooting at! Modern subs have an effective reach of about 15 miles (depends on how tall the target ship is). |
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