DDX Zumwalt class destroyer, 14 Oct 2007

DDX Zumwalt Class Destroyer


The Zumwalt-class destroyer (DDG-1000) is a planned class of United States Navy destroyers, designed as multi-mission ship with a focus on land attack. The class, originally called the DD(X), is a scaled-back project that emerged after funding cuts to the larger DD-21 vessel program.

The lead ship is named the Zumwalt for Admiral Elmo Zumwalt; following U.S. Navy tradition, it and its sister ships will be known as Zumwalt-class ships.

Originally, the Navy had hoped to build 32 of these destroyers. That number was later reduced to 24, then to seven, due to the high cost of new and experimental technologies to be incorporated in the destroyer.[2] The U.S. House of Representatives remains skeptical of the DDG-1000 destroyer program for financial reasons and has therefore allotted the Navy only enough money to begin construction on one DDG-1000 destroyer as a "technology demonstrator." The initial funding allocation for the DDG-1000 destroyer was included in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2007[2]

However, the 2007 appropriations bill passed on September 26, 2006 by the House, and later by the Senate, allotted 2.6 billion USD for the funding and building of two Zumwalt-class destroyers. Under this current plan, Bath Iron Works in Maine and Northrop Grumman's Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi will build one ship each.

Among U. S. warships in development, the DDG-1000 is to be preceded by the Littoral Combat Ship and followed possibly by the CG(X) cruiser, concurrent with the CVN-21 aircraft carrier. The DDG-1000 program resulted from a large re-organization of the DD21 program when Congress cut its budget by over 50% as part of the SC21 program of the 1990s.

The Zumwalt-class destroyers are multi-role and designed for surface warfare, anti-aircraft, and naval fire support. They take the place of the battleships in filling the former congressional mandate for naval fire support, though the requirement was reduced to allow them to fill this role. The most numerous Navy main surface warfare combatants are, and will remain for the foreseeable future, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Ticonderoga-class cruisers. All are part of the Aegis system.

Nice! I'm looking forward to see more ships from you later on! Good work.

Great unit and a badly needed one for the modern minded modders out there!!

I must confess that I find the Zumwalt class ugly as hell (the real ship, not the civ unit). This whole stealth thing made ships really loose their charm, they look like a pimped iron.

Good old days...

Another very nice unit, Wyrmshadow! Great job!

@Ares: Everything was better looking before stealth was invented - cool armor, cool guns, nobody worrying about being invisible...

Thanks for making this Wyrm.

CC-2224 said:

Another very nice unit, Wyrmshadow! Great job!

@Ares: Everything was better looking before stealth was invented - cool armor, cool guns, nobody worrying about being invisible...

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Basically the same thing happened with camo uniforms. Althought camo is pretty cool looking to me, a lot of people didn't like them as much as the flashy red and blue of the Napoleonic ages. Probably a few generations from now people will look at the stealth designs as really cool and look upon the old WW2 ships as too cumbersome looking. Of course they'll complain a LOT if someone invents truly invisible ships!!

But back to Wyrmshadow's unit...I have to say, ugly concept design in real life or not, I like it a lot better than the Aegis cruiser (or should I say Aegis motorboat) which comes with vanilla Civ.

I happen to like these stealth desings. I wish the Burke's would have looked more like the original artists renderings instead of adding all that clutter.

Pretty maybe not, but it's certainly an interesting ship. The bow design is an kind of a throwback to the Dreadnought era. I like that.

-Oz

Once again great execution Wyrmshadow.

excellent I think this unit is much needed and well done, I will add it immediately

Cool unit. Definitely downloading.

Great work! The missile salvo is especially entertaining.

This project is now dead.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com...the-usas-ddg1000-zumwalt-class-program-02574/

That is pretty sad considering their obvious littoral use.

No suprise. When I read last week that the navy was willing to accept getting only 2s of the class I knew it was pretty much over

At $3 billion dollars a unit, the Navy was being incredibly naive to think that Congress would go along. Eventually, someone in the DOD is going to understand that Congress is not buying overly expensive ships and planes.

Hey does anyone know if there was an LCS unit released yet? I only say this as the LCS is related to the DD(X) in dealing with asymmetrical warfare and would like to see a unit release on this. Thanks

-Wahsayah

No, I haven't made one.