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Sucata stealth.......

The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has placed its famous Sea Shadow stealth ship up for auction. And while the high-tech military sea vessel cost more than $195 million to develop, its opening bid was for the relatively tiny sum of $50,000, with only a $10,000 deposit required.

The ex-Sea Shadow shall be disposed of by completely dismantling and scrapping within the USA," reads the item's description on the GSA website. "Dismantling is defined as reducing the property such as it has no value except for its basic material content."
However, before you begin finalizing your plans for global dominance, there is one major catch to the auction: The ship will be dismantled and reduced to scrap before being handed out to the auction's eventual winner
The 164-foot experimental craft was first constructed in 1983 by Lockheed for the U.S. Navy and contains the same stealth technology used by its more famous aerial counterparts. Although it appears almost flimsy on the surface, it actually contains two submerged twin hulls and is specifically designed to withstand very rough ocean waves


The Courier Mail reports

Quem quizer fazer um lance no leilão tem aqui o link
ha 5 minutos atraz ia em 3.200.000

   

http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucdsclnk?sl=31QSCI12129001

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Stealth destroyer, at over $3 billion apiece, is US Navy’s latest answer to rising China



A super-stealthy warship that could underpin the U.S. navy’s China strategy will be able to sneak up on coastlines virtually undetected and pound targets with electromagnetic “railguns” right out of a sci-fi movie.

But at more than $3 billion a pop, critics say the new DDG-1000 destroyer sucks away funds that could be better used to bolster a thinly stretched conventional fleet. One outspoken admiral in China has scoffed that all it would take to sink the high-tech American ship is an armada of explosive-laden fishing boats.

With the first of the new ships set to be delivered in 2014, the stealth destroyer is being heavily promoted by the Pentagon as the most advanced destroyer in history — a silver bullet of stealth. It has been called a perfect fit for what Washington now considers the most strategically important region in the world — Asia and the Pacific.

Though it could come in handy elsewhere, like in the Gulf region, its ability to carry out missions both on the high seas and in shallows closer to shore is especially important in Asia because of the region’s many island nations and China’s long Pacific coast.

“With its stealth, incredibly capable sonar system, strike capability and lower manning requirements — this is our future,” Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, said in April after visiting the shipyard in Maine where they are being built.

On a visit to a major regional security conference in Singapore that ended Sunday, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the Navy will be deploying 60 percent of its fleet worldwide to the Pacific by 2020, and though he didn’t cite the stealth destroyers he said new high-tech ships will be a big part of its shift.

The DDG-1000 and other stealth destroyers of the Zumwalt class feature a wave-piercing hull that leaves almost no wake, electric drive propulsion and advanced sonar and missiles. They are longer and heavier than existing destroyers — but will have half the crew because of automated systems and appear to be little more than a small fishing boat on enemy radar.

Down the road, the ship is to be equipped with an electromagnetic railgun, which uses a magnetic field and electric current to fire a projectile at several times the speed of sound.

But cost overruns and technical delays have left many defense experts wondering if the whole endeavor was too focused on futuristic technologies for its own good.

They point to the problem-ridden F-22 stealth jet fighter, which was hailed as the most advanced fighter ever built but was cut short because of prohibitive costs. Its successor, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, has swelled up into the most expensive procurement program in Defense Department history.

“Whether the Navy can afford to buy many DDG-1000s must be balanced against the need for over 300 surface ships to fulfill the various missions that confront it,” said Dean Cheng, a China expert with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research institute in Washington. “Buying hyperexpensive ships hurts that ability, but buying ships that can’t do the job, or worse can’t survive in the face of the enemy, is even more irresponsible.”

The Navy says it’s money well spent. The rise of China has been cited as the best reason for keeping the revolutionary ship afloat, although the specifics of where it will be deployed have yet to be announced. Navy officials also say the technologies developed for the ship will inevitably be used in other vessels in the decades ahead.

But the destroyers’ $3.1 billion price tag, which is about twice the cost of the current destroyers and balloons to $7 billion each when research and development is added in, nearly sank it in Congress. Though the Navy originally wanted 32 of them, that was cut to 24, then seven.

[HSMW]

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Zumwalt class Destroyer  
no proximo ano o primeiro  DDG 1000 deve ser lançado ao mar
estao 3 em construção.






Tem cara de bixo mau!  

[Cabeça de Martelo]

Mais um programa megalómano que muito provavelmente vai dar inúmeros problemas (tal como grande parte dos programas de novos equipamentos feitos nos últimos anos nos EUA). A Zumwalt class Destroyer provavelmente vai ser ainda mais cara do que eles estão à espera e os números dos navios vão ser muito mais reduzidos do que eles querem.

[chaimites]

Estes sistemas estão cada vez  mais complexos.

E preciso mentalizar, que problemas são normais em projectos novos.

È só ver em comparação, quantos anos demora uma marca de automóveis a lançar um novo automóvel e quantas unidades  são destruidas em testes.

Desde o primeiro esboço  ate se arrancar com a linha de montagem passam-se varios anos

O Problema aqui é que cada unidade custa milhares de milhoes, é muito mais complexa que um automóvel  e não se pode destruir  umas duzias de navios para testar,  é preciso ir corregindo e afinando consoante os problemas vão surgindo.
e depois tratando-se de um navio , qualquer parametro que alteres intrefere com todos os outros, obrigando por vezes a ter recalcular todos os  outros  parametros do navio.

 se daqui a 5/6 anos  anos esta classe  de navios estiver a ser montada completamente afinada e com todos os problema resolvidos  é muito bom!
10 anos  é talvez uma meta que não deve ficar muito longe de ser atingida.

Quem pense que eles lançam o primeiro ao mar e ele passados 6 meses esta operacional, esta completamente fora  da realidade  que representa a complexidade dum projeto destes.
muito normal a primeira unidade custar o dobro ou o triplo das restantes.

Não ha milagres , nem aqui nem nos States.

PS: a Rolls Royce anda ha 4 anos a testar um controlo remoto  revolucionário, todo XPTO,  no NRP Viana do Castelo,  e ainda não  esta operacional

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[HSMW]

[P44]

Zumwalt class Destroyer  
no proximo ano o primeiro  DDG 1000 deve ser lançado ao mar
estao 3 em construção.

não eram só 2  

[chaimites]

Zumwalt class Destroyer
no proximo ano o primeiro DDG 1000 deve ser lançado ao mar
estao 3 em construção.

não eram só 2

Huntington Ingalls Industries, company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding​ division, has been awarded an advance procurement contract for work on the U.S. Navy’s third Zumwalt-class destroyer, DDG 1002.

[Menacho]

Prototipo del CH-53K, reemplazo de los CH-53 E:

[Menacho]

Del gran Charly 015:

[HSMW]

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DDG 1000  
 

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Cortes orçamentais na USN:

Effects of the Continuing Resolution and Sequestration on the Navy

Tier A – Continuing Resolution ($4.6B Operation and Maintenance + $ 1.7B “New Starts”)

    Cancel 10 ship availabilities in San Diego ($219M)
    Cancel 10 ship availabilities in Norfolk ($271M)
    Cancel 1 ship availability in New London ($45M)
    Cancel 1 ship availability in Washington ($65M)
    Cancel 1 ship availability in Mayport ($4M)
    Cancel 3rd and 4th Quarter aircraft maintenance in San Diego, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Whidbey Island, Lemoore, & Cherry Point ($433M)
    Cut 1,121 temporary workers mostly in shipyards and base operating support ($30M)
    Reduce Facilities, Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization by 50 percent ($1.142B)
    Cut Base Operating Support by 10 percent ($363M)
    Cut non-essential travel/conferences ($26M)
    Cut Navy Expeditionary Combat Command by 20 percent ($182M)
    Reduce ship operations, flying hours ($670M)
    Cancel 30 building demolition projects ($62M)
    Delay decommissioning and/or disposal preparation ($33M)
    Implement civilian hiring freeze ($70M)

“New Start” Prohibitions

    Defer “new start” Military Construction Division projects ($675M)
    Defer “new start” construction of CVN 79 ($608M)
    Defer “new start” aircraft procurements ($150M)
    Defer “new start” research and development ($263M)
    Cancel construction of 1 DDG-51 ($1.4B) – quantity limit

Tier B – Sequestration ($4.0B)

    Cancel several SSN deployments
    Flying hours on deployed carriers in Middle East reduced 55 percent; steaming days reduced 22 percent
    Reduce Western Pacific deployed operations by 35 percent; Non-deployed Pacific ships lose 40 percent of steaming days
    Cancel naval operations in and around South America; cancel all non-Ballistic Missile Defense deployments to Europe
    Reduce Middle East, Atlantic, Mediterranean Ballistic Missile Defense patrols
    Shut down all flying for four of nine Carrier Air Wings in March 2013. 9-12 months to restore normal readiness at 2-3 times the cost
    Stop non-deployed operations that do not support pre-deployment training
    Reduce non-deployed operations for pre-deployment training
    Cut all exercises (e.g., MALABAR, CARAT, FOAL Eagle)
    Reduce port visits
    Furlough most civilians for 22 work days ($448M)
    Defer emergent repairs (USS Miami - $294M in Maine, USS Porter - $125M, USS Montpelier - $41M East Coast) ($505M Total)
    Cancel Blue Angels shows in 3rd and 4th quarters ($20M)
    Cancel Community Outreach Programs (e.g. Fleet Week)

IMPACTS

    By October 2013, only one Carrier Strike Group / one Amphibious Ready Group (Japan-based) crisis-ready
    By October 2013, CONUS forces will require nine+ months to deploy due to maintenance and training curtailments
    Middle East deployed Carrier Strike Group reduced to one.

http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/story_1.html