Officer named to command USS Zumwalt has best possible name ever

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

I think it gets alot of criticism but i kinda like it. Reminds me of a bigger, badder ironclad. Still cant beat the beauty of an Iowa though.

I thought it looks more like...

[Catfish]

Among all the new features and gadgets and radar camouflage, you should have a look at the surface shape, as well as the size of the subsurface hull in comparison.
I would not want to be aboard this during a real storm

[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by Catfish

I would not want to be aboard this during a real storm.

So, confirming that it is, indeed an ironclad.

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by Dread Knot

So, confirming that it is, indeed an ironclad.

That really does seem top heavy(just like the USN) I wonder if they bothered to test it, something like that Spanish submarine that's too heavy might be about to happen. I'd rather they gave me the oldest ship in the fleet over that "thing". Well not the oldest, who wouldn't take USS Constitution she's a beaut!

[August]

Originally Posted by em2nought

That really does seem top heavy(just like the USN) I wonder if they bothered to test it, something like that Spanish submarine that's too heavy might be about to happen. I'd rather they gave me the oldest ship in the fleet over that "thing". Well not the oldest, who wouldn't take USS Constitution she's a beaut!

Not me. Commanding Old Ironsides is pretty much a shore berth, a figurehead job. There is an army of preservationists and historians overseeing every plank and bolt on her so all the skipper does is constant Dog and Pony shows throughout the year broken by just one quick turn around Boston harbor pushed by tugs and with a main deck awash with brass and politicians.

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

The Navy's newest destroyer will be command by none other than Captain James Kirk.

His Bio

Too bad he's not commanding a real ship instead of a half-assed boondoggle of a destroyer that can't even do BMD... :/

[vienna]

Originally Posted by August

He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1990 so i'm guessing that maybe it was because at the time honoring some family ancestor was more important than a similarity to the name of a then barely known tv character.

Expect a searing letter from Bill Shatner...


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