Ol Paint Posted January 13, 2024 Posted January 13, 2024 At some point, the DDG-51s will get replaced, so here's a topic for posting information, commentary, and speculation. https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Team-Ships/PEO-Ships/DDG-X/ https://news.usni.org/2024/01/10/navy-wants-3-year-overlap-between-arleigh-burkes-and-ddgx-considering-propulsion-system Quote From the USNI article linked above: January 10, 2024 ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy is looking for a three-year overlap between the start of construction on its next-generation guided-missile destroyer DDG(X) and its current crop of Flight III Arleigh Burke DDGs, the director of Navy surface warfare told USNI News on Wednesday... ... At an estimated 13,500 tons with a cost of up to $3.4 billion, the DDG(X) is set to replace the legacy Burkes that have been in the fleet since the early 1990s. The Navy will be the design agent for the new ship, working in conjunction with the two existing guided-missile destroyer yards – General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, and HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss. The service is keen on feathering in the DDG(X) to create a smooth transition at the yards from the Flight IIIs... ...Last year, the service stood up a land-based propulsion test system in Philadelphia, Pa., to prove out the early propulsion train for DDG(X)... The growth continues. Doug
shep854 Posted January 14, 2024 Posted January 14, 2024 Nah. Half a dozen duplicate threads at least...😎
Josh Posted January 14, 2024 Posted January 14, 2024 The big news with DDG 51s is the 2.0 program. Total replacement of the radars, ECM, and core processors and software to a pseudo Flt III level.
Rick Posted January 14, 2024 Posted January 14, 2024 On 1/13/2024 at 2:27 PM, Ol Paint said: At some point, the DDG-51s will get replaced, so here's a topic for posting information, commentary, and speculation. https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Team-Ships/PEO-Ships/DDG-X/ https://news.usni.org/2024/01/10/navy-wants-3-year-overlap-between-arleigh-burkes-and-ddgx-considering-propulsion-system The growth continues. Doug What is depressing is what is on the sidebar to the right, a diversity and inclusion essay 🚾
Sherman Posted January 17 Posted January 17 Instead of parsing tea leaves, one might comb through the frosting to get a better idea of where we stand on the DDG(X) design. I imagine it would be a difficult task to create a Mark 45 Mod 4 from spun sugar...that long barrel. Better to exercise creative license. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ddg-x-next-generation-destroyer-232727787.html
futon Posted January 19 Posted January 19 As the DDG(X) is still a decade or more away, the Burkes will be central for awhile. A year old article about the 2.0 upgrade for Flight IIA Burkes. Four ships to get the upgrade first, then perhaps up to 16 more later. https://www.twz.com/middle-aged-navy-destroyers-getting-2-0-upgrade-package
Ivanhoe Posted January 22 Posted January 22 https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/red-sea-experience-dont-let-others Quote Never forget—you’ve heard me say it 1,000 times over a couple of decades—when war at sea starts one thing becomes very clear, very fast: you don’t have enough guns, and those you have are a size smaller than you really need. https://www.twz.com/news-features/navy-just-disclosed-how-many-of-each-of-its-surface-to-air-missiles-it-fired-during-red-sea-fight Quote The U.S. Navy’s surface fleet has fired nearly 400 individual munitions while battling Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the Red Sea over the past 15 months. That includes the firing of 120 SM-2 missiles, 80 SM-6 missiles, 160 rounds from destroyers and cruisers’ five-inch main guns, as well as a combined 20 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) and SM-3 missiles. Quote “We’ve done the analysis with what we used to shoot in World War II, and we’re at about two rounds per incoming missile,” McLane said. Quote “It’s really the hours and days instead of weeks and months, that’s what we weren’t 100% ready for,” Cheever said. “The speed of this thing is minute, hours, days, maybe, but days is even probably late to need as we work this thing.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDG(X) Quote A new rendering released by Program Executive Office (PEO) Ships and obtained by Naval News in early January 2025 shows DDG(X) omitting the 5-inch Mark 45 naval gun entirely. PEO Ships is run by traitors. Change my mind.
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