The Reason US Navy Built Only 3 of These Weird Looking Destroyers

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  • Опубліковано 21 кві 2022
  • Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel for a feature on one of the most unique US Navy Destroyers ever built- the Zumwalt class. These vessels were on the cutting edge of US Navy's stealth technology.
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  • @BilltheTulaneGuy
    @BilltheTulaneGuy Рік тому +1

    Update:the Guns are out and they will be replaced by an updated missle system.
    That speaks volumes about how much the USN values this class of ships.

  • @applicareinc
    @applicareinc 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks for this excellent educational video. The narration is wonderful.

  • @JohnnyWednesday
    @JohnnyWednesday 2 роки тому +21

    There's little point in making stealth ships when synthetic aperture radar satellite systems exist. You can hide from the side or from above - but not both. Besides - half the time satellites can visually track surface ships. Submarines have already solved the 'Stealth at Sea' problem.

    • @mikeholloway2625
      @mikeholloway2625 2 роки тому +1

      Yes... but who controls those satellites? Not Russia. -Q

    • @ExSheriffFattyBoySkinnyArms
      @ExSheriffFattyBoySkinnyArms 2 роки тому

      @@mikeholloway2625 india china russia north korea will likely send a few some day …

    • @aqelalharbi5854
      @aqelalharbi5854 2 роки тому

      Masuk Anggota TNI AL masuk kapal Baru Tibah Pelabuhan Belawan Medan Laut Lepas Laut jawah oke RI

    • @jimmykim4555
      @jimmykim4555 2 роки тому

      They are ugly looking ships and costs way too much! The money could of been better spent building another aircraft carrier or guide missile cruisers.

    • @mikeholloway2625
      @mikeholloway2625 2 роки тому

      @@jimmykim4555 I would put every penny into building a couple million torpedos with a thousand mile range. Just saying. Capital Ships are museum pieces that will end up at the bottom of oceans. Surfce ships will be sitting ducks in a few months or less. -Q

  • @GintaPPE1000
    @GintaPPE1000 2 роки тому +9

    To anyone who thinks Zumwalt is “outrageously expensive”, the cost to build each Ticonderoga-class cruiser, adjusted for inflation, was $4.41 billion. And all that did was slap Aegis onto an existing destroyer hull, unlike Zumwalt which quite literally shares nothing in common with other US warships.
    High tech has always been expensive. We just previously lived in an era where it wasn’t so easy for the media to mislead people.

    • @thomaswade3072
      @thomaswade3072 2 роки тому +1

      I agree that R&D is super expensive, but its still a failed implementation of a concept ship.

  • @rathahang7604
    @rathahang7604 Рік тому

    Wow, that looks awesome stealth ships God bless America and we’re safe because of you guys 🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏💕💪

  • @stephenstrout6203
    @stephenstrout6203 2 роки тому +2

    Maybe they should swap out those 5inch guns for laser weapon systems

  • @alanssnack1192
    @alanssnack1192 2 роки тому

    Nice video...Fluctus

  • @brucemalcolm3893
    @brucemalcolm3893 2 роки тому +2

    Bath Iron Works, Bath Maine. 1000

  • @rngalston
    @rngalston 2 роки тому +4

    that's crazy expensive! And I thought the platforms in the Air Force were costly.

    • @rngalston
      @rngalston 2 роки тому +3

      "Just 79 million a piece"

  • @Khether0001
    @Khether0001 2 роки тому +6

    ONE ROUND, *ONE SINGLE SHOT* costs nearly ONE MILLION DOLLARS ?!?!?!?!?!?!???

  • @ubuntuber1619
    @ubuntuber1619 2 роки тому +4

    it looks like cyber truck of ships.

  • @gerrykomalaysia2
    @gerrykomalaysia2 2 роки тому

    Good vid

  • @AviatorZeeshan
    @AviatorZeeshan 2 роки тому

    Nice video

  • @a-fl-man640
    @a-fl-man640 2 роки тому +6

    9:13 did you say aircrafts????? how about aircraft which actually is the plural of aircraft

    • @doogleticker5183
      @doogleticker5183 2 роки тому

      It's all over the Internet and it drives me nuts!! Is this a software problem or are people becoming more illiterate as time glides by? Maybe it's woke!

  • @doogleticker5183
    @doogleticker5183 2 роки тому +2

    How hard is it to be the "finest in its class" when there are only three?

    • @fatdoi003
      @fatdoi003 Рік тому +1

      finest always has limited number.... so 1, 2, 3

  • @rayc.1396
    @rayc.1396 2 роки тому +4

    ALL of these cost over runs go into the pocket of whatever military branch they represent. By doing this that branch of military can build other sophisticated, non needed weapons.

  • @barakaobombervsronaldraide3098
    @barakaobombervsronaldraide3098 2 роки тому +3

    Wait, if this is considered as a destroyer weighing 14k tons. So, how come type 055 is considered as a cruiser by the Americans?🤔

    • @fatdoi003
      @fatdoi003 Рік тому +1

      whilst japanese are calling their f35b carriers helicopter destroyer

  • @jordanmacauley9422
    @jordanmacauley9422 2 роки тому +2

    Update they building 3 more of the zumwalts

    • @doogleticker5183
      @doogleticker5183 2 роки тому

      Update: Biden has passed his SATs with a perfect score, Harris is not fascinated by space (cackle), Pelosi does not endorse Pampers for Seniors, and Obama is not a puppet-master.

  • @HughMongus-rl1dm
    @HughMongus-rl1dm Рік тому

    Why are these private contractors constantly permitted to bleed us dry!

  • @tonyrod4388
    @tonyrod4388 2 роки тому +3

    32 cost 9 Billion, then 3 cost 4.24 Billion EACH! $12.72 BN!!!! TOTAL FINAL COST: $22.5 BN...Only in America!
    I see something very wrong here! How can an estimate be so far OFF? I can see going from 32 to 24...but from 32 to 3???? AN INVESTIGATION SHOUD ENSUE!

    • @GintaPPE1000
      @GintaPPE1000 2 роки тому +3

      Because over half of the $22.5 billion total cost is R&D. Had the full class been produced, that would’ve been spread across all 32 hulls.
      Oh, by the way, the cost of the Ticonderoga class cruisers, adjusted for inflation from 1979 to 2022, is $4.41 billion apiece. It’s almost like high-tech systems are expensive.

    • @tonyrod4388
      @tonyrod4388 2 роки тому +1

      @@GintaPPE1000 Ok, but how far off can an estimate be regardless of whether it was R&D or B&S. You dont tell me you are going to build me 32 something for 9 billion and then be like:, "Oh, hun, I dont know what I am building, so let me research it first...and by the way that research is going to cost you 12.74 billion plus the 9B."
      I'll be like,"Hun, are you FKNG nuts! What the hell did you promise me to begin with?"
      LIKE THAT...YUP!

    • @chillwill5080
      @chillwill5080 Рік тому

      LOL.. Good luck when the government people who make the laws are the ones stealing the most money.

  • @aelaan12
    @aelaan12 2 роки тому +6

    How much good could have been done with the waste of all this money and again... nobody is held accountable.

    • @frank-ko6de
      @frank-ko6de 2 роки тому +3

      Eisenhower once warned about the defense industrial complex and how they're a threat to national serious due to hyperinflation of cost of services.

    • @GintaPPE1000
      @GintaPPE1000 2 роки тому

      Yeah, because this stupid shore bombardment destroyer concept was Congress’s idea. Of course they’re not going to hold themselves accountable.

  • @rickkuny6591
    @rickkuny6591 2 роки тому +2

    Ha ha ha, “just 79 million apiece“ Just saying that like it sounds like a Starbucks coffee pretty much sums up the crazy

  • @kharadikiritkumar959
    @kharadikiritkumar959 2 роки тому +1

    🙏🙏👌

  • @lastationproductions
    @lastationproductions Рік тому

    Can't they just put the same guns on the zu wall they put on the Burke ?

  • @U.DJ.
    @U.DJ. Рік тому

    Beautiful ship mabue some day they will find a way to build more of these.....

  • @JSwan-bd1tc
    @JSwan-bd1tc 2 роки тому +1

    Arlee...not Arlay.

  • @user-ee7bf8ir5o
    @user-ee7bf8ir5o 2 роки тому

    줌왈트 제주도에 상시 배치해야한다....

  • @rgloria40
    @rgloria40 2 роки тому

    Many of us pay outrageous gas prices for our cars...

  • @BeelP.
    @BeelP. Рік тому

    What? No guns are operational on this USD8bil destroyer?

    • @JM-lk6wo
      @JM-lk6wo Рік тому

      No. The Navy decided to not buy ammunition that costs over 800,000 per round. The "advanced gun system" is an expensive, useless toy.

  • @makhfudin4564
    @makhfudin4564 2 роки тому

    We need Indonesian subtitles

  • @joepilbeam4722
    @joepilbeam4722 2 роки тому

    They only needed one, they built three, lucky they didn't build three thousand.

  • @brittanytaz1282
    @brittanytaz1282 2 роки тому

    Because that should be enough for Ukraine's Lend Lease Policy.

  • @NguyenNam-fn5os
    @NguyenNam-fn5os 2 роки тому

    Nếu cho tôi xếp về quân sự . Hoa kỳ là quốc gia có nền quân sự số 1 trên thế về quân sự . Không có nước nào vượt qua hoa kỳ .

  • @chanphoieng1650
    @chanphoieng1650 2 роки тому +1

    Extreme expensive and it is not going to work as intended in real battlefield.

  • @vincerefuerzo3649
    @vincerefuerzo3649 2 роки тому +1

    1 day raptor will be born again as "raptor ex" just like f15ex 🤣

  • @robertabell9182
    @robertabell9182 2 роки тому

    Way to prep that War Machine. God’s speed Lady’s and Gentlemen. Move out the way we have a Country to Save. Giddy up little Doggie way to drive that Mule. All day long Yahoo

  • @pamthevan7340
    @pamthevan7340 2 роки тому +9

    Spend that money on health and everyone in the US could have free healthcare.

    • @gman6691
      @gman6691 2 роки тому

      You don’t make sense. You may see it at waste of money but you and your family go to bed safely every night without worrying about Russia or China.

    • @alanssnack1192
      @alanssnack1192 2 роки тому +2

      healthcare schmealthcare

  • @antonioneiro4948
    @antonioneiro4948 2 роки тому

    Muy siempre porque eso no tentico fiasco como buque no valen nada y se ven a kilómetros

  • @gilbertfranklin1537
    @gilbertfranklin1537 2 роки тому

    Apparently some of the components in these weapons is terribly expensive. I wish someone would give us some idea what these pricey parts are, and where we obtain them, because if the ships and planes are made in America, AND the components are from here also, then one person's cost is another's gain. So, if it all stays in the country, the money just circulates in the economy and benefits us both ways... more local purchases and a world's best assortment of weapons.
    But, if we are buying much of the parts from overseas, then it really is too much even for the wealthiest nation. Guess it is impossibly difficult to get the actual breakdown. 😒

  • @JohnlundTheGoodGuy
    @JohnlundTheGoodGuy Рік тому

    Can destroyer take all Russian war ship.

  • @user-dc1ud6px3s
    @user-dc1ud6px3s Рік тому +1

    Why make a 10 minute video when all you needed was two words: they suck.

  • @lktan224
    @lktan224 2 роки тому +1

    While their citizens live below poverty line.

  • @lowprofilepersonwithbigbra669

    railgun where or just fancy

    • @Kurovas
      @Kurovas Рік тому

      I don't think it's a fancy ship. It's more of Ugly @ss ship