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I sure would not want to be a "red shirt" on a ship with Capt Kirk.........We now need to know the names of the doctor, 1st officer, helmsman, comm officer etc. Would be funny though.
Ouch! We seem to get sucker-punched a lot as the great American taxpayers we all are...but maybe, just maybe, i'm wrong about that.built for the US Navy in the 1980s at a cost of $190 million.
the 563-ton vessel is being sold for scrap. Bidding for the Sea Shadow from salvage dealers had reached $100,420 yesterday
Float like a ButterflyI worked at BAE when we were making the AGS (advanced gun system) for this DDG-1000. It was a pretty cool gun, it was even a stealth gun!. If I remember right, it could fire 5-10 rounds that were able to loiter in the air before all striking the targets simultaneously. We also made the MK57 Vertical launch system for the missles. It was a really cool ship that the navy had plans to build 33 some of I think but then they pulled the plug down to 2 I think after they discovered china's new weapon. China apparently came out with the ability to pintpoint a ballistic missile so well that they can litterly use a solid non explosive warhead to destroy even our biggest ships. It doesnt take any explosion to destroy something when its going at Mach 26 as long as you can hit what your aiming for!
No wonder the ship's costs skyrocketed when the order was cut from 33 down to 2 or 3
Its what I was told when I was working on systems for the ship while at BAE Systems. It was a pretty big deal for us (lots of folks lost their jobs due to it) when we found out the orders were getting slashed... and it was a quick decision too that didnt have much public press. At the time they just said "a new threat had drastically changed the navy's fleet plans", it wasnt until a month or 2 later that we were told what the "new threat" was.peashooter, such a claim is a bold one. I am pretty certain there are already countermeasures against it. And ANY MRBM is pretty much ****ing for any ship it hits.
Radical:Here is some info on the Chinese DF-21D ANTI-SHIP BALISTIC MISSILE. This missile is the reason the DDG1000 Program (as well as the LCS/Littoral Combat Ship program) was scaled back so drastically and quickly from 33 ships down to 2 or 3. The Chinese are the FIRST to create such a weapon in operational form. Its capable of: destroying an aircraft carrier in one hit and that there was "currently ... no defense against it"
A little off the main subject of this thread..... but the floating drydock part of this set up is what has fascinated me for years. Its really fun and interesting reading to hear the background of it. If you have the time, google: HUGES MINING BARGE, GSF EXPLORER, and PROJECT AZORIAN. Its really some cool cold war stuff.A friend who thinks I get a little carried away with military surplus sent me this back in April 2012. This was built in 1985- who knows what's under development now.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk US NAVY SEA SHADOW
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"- - -top secret experimental vessel built for the US Navy in the 1980s at a cost of $190 million. Production on the vessel was completed in 1985, but the public weren’t aware of its existence until1993.
Now the Sea Shadow, which was the inspiration for the villain’s boat in the 1997James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, could be yours for a fraction of that price after being put up for sale on US government’s GSA auction site, an eBay-style website.
But don’t expect to sail off on any undercover missions – the 563-ton vessel is being sold for scrap. Bidding for the Sea Shadow from salvage dealers had reached $100,420 yesterday, and the auction closes this coming Thursday. The authorities hoped to find a museum to house it, but it is now for sale on the GSA Auctions website for military products.
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It comes with its own floating garage/dry dock324 feet long x 106’ wide.
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The Chinese (ballistic missiles) and Russians (ASBMS, cruise missiles and hypervelocity torpedoes) have been serious about defending against the US fleet for a long time. The DF-21D is the latest effort to neutralize US naval superiority.You are right about any MRBM being trouble if it hits a ship (or anything else for that matter), but the Chinese DF21D was feared because it supposedly has a precision terminal guidance system to hit the ship (a "small" moving target), other ballistic missiles arent really capable of changing their target once launched and certainly not accurate enough to be expected to hit a target the size of a ship.
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