{"id":195269,"date":"2008-07-20T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/navy-wants-to-pull-plug-on-zumwalt-class\/"},"modified":"2008-07-20T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T11:45:00","slug":"navy-wants-to-pull-plug-on-zumwalt-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/navy-wants-to-pull-plug-on-zumwalt-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Wants to Pull Plug on Zumwalt Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img205.imageshack.us\/img205\/1929\/zumwaltclassdestroyermohp3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img205.imageshack.us\/img205\/1929\/zumwaltclassdestroyermohp3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Well, it looks like the Navy is coming to its senses, and that it will be <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/07\/in-major-revers.html\">trying to terminate its DDG-1000 Zumwalt class destroyer<\/a> at just two ships.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this is a good thing.  They are too damn expensive to build many, and whatever capabilities you add, you lose too much coverage.  A large ship (14,500 tons) simply can not be in two places at once, while two (or three) smaller Burke class destroyers can.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the sensible decision, but I agree with Galrahn that there is a risk that <a href=\"http:\/\/informationdissemination.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/house-wants-to-talk-about-ddg-1000.html\">Congress may overrule the Navy<\/a>, because there are prominent people who want the defense pork, which would be a damn shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the Navy is coming to its senses, and that it will be trying to terminate its DDG-1000 Zumwalt class destroyer at just two ships. I think that this is a good thing. They are too damn expensive to build many, and whatever capabilities you add, you lose too much coverage. A &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-195269","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\/195269"}],"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=195269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}