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       Re: Uniformitarian
       By: Uniformitarian Date: August 23, 2014, 9:56 pm
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       Strategic Bomber
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       Other Destroyer
       Name: Zumwalt
       Builders: Huntington Ingalls, Bath Iron Works
       Operators: United States Navy
       Preceded by: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
       Cost: US$3.45 billion (unit cost),[1] US$12.07 billion (total
       program cost including R&D)[2][3]
       In commission: March 2015 (forecast)[4]
       Building: 2
       Planned:
       USS Zumwalt
       USS Michael Monsoor
       USS Lyndon B. Johnson
       Completed: 1
       General characteristics
       Class & type: Zumwalt
       Type: Multi-mission destroyer, emphasis on land attack
       Displacement: 14,564 long tons (14,798 t)[5]
       Length: 600 ft (180 m)
       Beam: 80.7 ft (24.6 m)
       Draft: 27.6 ft (8.4 m)
       Propulsion: 2 Rolls-Royce Marine Trent-30 gas turbines driving
       Curtiss-Wright generators[6] plus 2 Rolls-Royce RR4500 gas
       turbine generator sets,[7] 78 MW (105,000 shp); 2 propellers
       driven by electric motors
       Speed: In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
       Complement: 140
       Sensors and
       processing systems: AN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar (MFR) (X-band,
       scanned array)[8]
       Armament:
       20 × MK 57 VLS modules, with a total of 80 launch cells[9]
       RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), 4 per cell
       Tactical Tomahawk, 1 per cell
       Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket (ASROC), 1 per cell
       2 × 155 mm/62 caliber Advanced Gun System; 920 × 155 mm rounds,
       70–100 LRLAP rounds
       2 × Mk 46 30 mm Gun System[10]
       Aircraft carried:
       1 × SH-60 LAMPS or MH-60R helicopter
       3 × MQ-8 Fire Scout VT-UAVs[5]
       Aviation facilities: Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to
       two medium-lift helicopters
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