Talk:USS Zumwalt/Archive 1

Comparable costs: Virginia
"smaller and less expensive Virginia class submarines."

Yet the Seawolf page describes Virginia-class as "ironically" more expensive, and the Virgina page mentions the controversy and higher-than-expected costs of Virginia-class boats.

The Virginia ended up costing more due to DOD's need to keep two yards open. The actual cost of the series has gone down as new cost saving techniques arise from modular construction. They are by far cheaper than Seawolf would have been especially if they had been built in two yards. The cost of future Virginia class will be substantially less as millions of man hours have been cut off the expected work hours on the boats. Uopmegabytes 05:30, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

The article could be improved mathematically; the side panel should reflect $22.5B divided by 3 boats is $7.5B (as in the narrative). If numbers are updated, so should comparisons, such as comparisons to a submarine type boat. Also, not sure of the value of obsolete cost figures (e.g., was ~$3B at one time).

The designator DDG-1000
does not continue the DD sequence started by USS Bainbridge (DD-1) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.106.33.46 (talk) 23:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC).

Interesting to read. Destroyer sequence did start with by USS Bainbridge (DD-1). Got to 993. The 994 to 997 were actually DDG, but assigned hull number in the DD sequence. DDG started with DDG-2 and got into the range of 100 to 110 wiht the DDG-51 flight 2 currently being built. 00:49, 21 April 2008 (UTC)~
 * Actually, the sequence got to DD-992 before being interrupted. 993 through 996 were the Kidd class DDGs, and then one last Spruance class DD was built as DD-997. Now 998 and 999 are being skipped because the Navy feels like it. 71.203.209.0 (talk) 15:20, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Design
Speaking of Virginia, is it just me or does this thing look like an ironclad from the civil war? like a cross between the uss monitor and the css virginia (merrimack) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.16.115.130 (talk) 05:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * It is. It's a Tumblehome design which was popular in that period.TeeTylerToe (talk) 07:24, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

DD vs CA
This thing weighs like a Heavy Cruiser, and acts like a CA, not quite heavy enough for CB. Now lets stop building LCS and make something to replace Frigates that isn't made out of aluminum.Saltysailor (talk) 09:15, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Standard Missiles
Zumwalt class are not prepared to hold Standard missiles

What is meant by "Standard missiles"? Do you mean it can't hold anything but nukes? It seems like missiles come in all shapes and sizes and I've never heard a standard missile. --Drewder (talk) 03:15, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * The US Navy has a family of missiles they call SM missiles, Standard Missiles. SM, SM-1, SM-2, SM-2e, etc.  Standard MissileTeeTylerToe (talk) 07:25, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Page change?
Last time I looked at this page I remember reading about concerns over how the tumblehome hull design would fare in rough seas given the way her bow is likely to be very vulnerable to high waves, but thats no longer on the page? I don't know any sites off the top of my head that address that concern and can be linked too but it does seem like an important piece of information for this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.53.14.175 (talk) 11:01, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * You're thinking of the page about the entire Zumwalt Class. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.182.117.10 (talk) 17:51, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Home Port
I am working with the Zumwalt crew to set up home port in San Diego. That is where the ship will be stationed.

Photos
Some construction photos here if anyone is interested. http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/011000.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.175.97.110 (talk) 05:52, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

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James Kirk
Am I the only one who thinks it's funny that the United States' most advanced stealth destroyer is commanded by a James Kirk, a.k.a. the commander of the Enterprise in Star Trek?

The source is reliable, I just found it interesting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.20.168.14 (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

One hopes that some wag in the Navy's Personnel Management office is scouring records in search of an engineering officer surnamed Scott and a physician surnamed McCoy who could also be assigned to the Zumwalt. 72.0.15.8 (talk) 18:17, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

For some reason, there wasn't a source supporting the open letter that William Shatner wrote to the crew, so I added it today. Sorry to be late to the party, but I agree with all of you that it is quite funny. Penguino35 (talk) 17:20, 8 December 2015 (UTC)


 * The humor wasn't missed by Capt. Kirk during the commissioning ceremony as he started his speech with "just to get this out of the way - live long and prosper."

Grammatically confused
This article states: "The hull classification symbol for Zumwalt is DDG-1000, departing from the guided missile destroyer which the latest is DDG-124, USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr., as of 2016 the latest of the named Arleigh Burke-class destroyers." This isn't even a sentence, not to mention pretty non-sensical sounding and just awfully awkwardly worded - was this even written by someone who speaks English? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.162 (talk) 09:24, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Instead of complaining here about the bad language, you could have just improved the sentence..... Regards Saschaporsche (talk) 10:00, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I've made an attempt to fix up the awkward and broken sentence about the classification symbol sequence. —RP88 (talk) 10:34, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Is this ship (still?) operational
All of the Zumwalt ships have been reportedly malfunctioning and becoming inoperable due to faulty (on purpose?) Chinese made electronic chips. Is this ship still functioning? Is there a plan to replace the faulty chips and, if so, how much will it cost and how long will it take?

Source on this issue? Ironically I remember a plot in NCIS where this happened ;)  Chrissymad  ❯❯❯  Talk   15:38, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Reports about initial operating capability (ioc) being delayed from 2015 to 2016 - which has also passed us by. A better question might be whether or not it has ever reached ioc, if so - when in 2016, or what is the new/forecast date if it missed 2016 (last year).

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