{"id":194476,"date":"2008-09-20T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/20\/looks-like-the-ddg-100-may-be-more-fed-up-than-previously-found\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T14:53:00","slug":"looks-like-the-ddg-100-may-be-more-fed-up-than-previously-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/20\/looks-like-the-ddg-100-may-be-more-fed-up-than-previously-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like the DDG-100 May Be More F$#@ed Up than Previously Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the sad saga of the DDG-1000 Zumwalt destroyers may become even sadder, as there are now doubts that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/09\/will-ddg-1000-p.html\">the two ships purchased may never sail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Schactman cites a report from <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Defense News<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    Issues have arisen in guaranteeing the seals between the composite construc\u00adtion panels of the huge Zumwalt deckhouse&#8230; [where] all of the ship\u2019s major sensors&#8230; are em\u00adbedded in the structure, and all of the ship above the first super\u00adstructure level is contained&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>    [O]ne source familiar with the situation said the Navy is so wor\u00adried about the problem that it has been canvassing other manufac\u00adturers of composite structures to see if an alternate production source could be found.<\/p>\n<p>    So will any Zumwalts be built?<\/p>\n<p>    &#8230; Sen. Susan Collins, R\u00ad-Maine, and a key supporter of the DDG-1000, told Defense News, \u201cI still expect the Navy\u2019s going to abandon the DDG-1000.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sure sounds to me like the ships cannot be built right now.<\/p>\n<p>Background <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=ddg-1000\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the sad saga of the DDG-1000 Zumwalt destroyers may become even sadder, as there are now doubts that the two ships purchased may never sail. Noah Schactman cites a report from Defense News: Issues have arisen in guaranteeing the seals between the composite construc\u00adtion panels of the huge Zumwalt deckhouse&#8230; [where] &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}