The Zumwalt Class Destroyer looks like a solution looking for a Problem.

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  1. MarAzul

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    Too large and too expensive to be an expendable, multipurpose utility warship. The sea keeping has to suck
    with such radical tumble-home and scoop bow. They call it wave piercing, but waves washing over it seems more like it. How the hell does this thing function as a gun platform in anything but calm seas? When those gun covers open up to allow the guns to elevate, there is a big hole for the sea to roll in and it will, right over those sloping sides or right over the bow if the ship is heading into it.

    Oh Lord! look at the price tag!!! Way more than a Nimitz class carrier! Holy crap, you can't send this thing into close to shore to provide close fire support for some Marines.

    WTF! Who designed this thing? Congressman?

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    http://www.allmilitaryweapons.com/2011/09/zumwalt-class-destroyer.html
     
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    I was thinking it was designed by Civil War veterans on both sides. It looks like the Monitor screwed the Merrimack and they had a baby....
     
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    I'm going to ask Santa for one!
     
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    Talk to any Navy vet and one of the first things they will always talk about is the SHEER waste of money. But I'm big sure big time Navy contractors are doing cartwheels.
     
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    But I thought MarAzul said he didn't have any design contracts...

    Exactly.

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    I have a problem. Lake Mead is close by and I don't have a boat.
     
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    These are the boats of choice all over asia for fishermen..bout as cheap as you can get to build being made from pvc pipe
    boat from pvc.jpg
     
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    Yup. Looks like an old Iron Clad.
     
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    upon first glance I thought, origami!
     
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  12. MarAzul

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    Dang! The salesman exceeded expectations! 7B for origami, that is talent.

    Subs are stealthy. This looks like an old one, but it isn't nor as stealthy. The return of a small fishing boat? Then it has one, not stealth.
     
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    for the price of two of those boats we could take care of all health issues for all the 9/11 first responders.
     
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    Riv Thats what the Navy needs:a PVC destroyer to launch drones and the craft can be operated from remote as well.
     
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    You would think drone warfare is cheaper than that monstrasity. I looks like a carnival game sillouette
     
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    The future of naval warfare!!!

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  18. MarAzul

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    Well, for the price of one of these big boys, we could have 10 Burke class destroyers, which even these are really too big to be called destroyers. Things are out of whack here!

    As for the 1st responders, I still don't get it. We are talking about NYPD and NYFD, right? Why the hell do they not already have healthcare coverage for their on the job injuries?
    What has the US tax payer to do with this?
     
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    I actually don't know why, but they don't. At least their coverage isn't sufficient. I was reading about one who died and spent over $400,000 out of pocket before he died. It's criminal.
     
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    I have a friend whose child get a very weird infection that risked his life and but pressure on a couple cranial nerves and although he had insurance, to see the right specialists it cost my friend over a quarter mil out of pocket and the total bill was well north of a million


    But the kid is fine, now has just a slight crossed eye.
     
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