“I don’t mean to be that guy complaining in the greys”

“Call me jaded, but is it possible that there is some company which will benefit from this?”

Reminds me of a certain candidate that campaigns on similarly utopian ideas. It’s great that you want those things, but is it really feasible?

To be fair, not defending this guy, but the blog/subblog situation here could you a big fucking infographic. Bonus points for including all the ones they shut down.

“There is no historical precedent to base this assertion on in this region where a particular version of sky wizard worship is more important than the basic tenets of human civilization.”

Survivor Rio

Worked in fine dining for near a decade (wearing a lot of white). I should have equity in that damn company by now.

Agreed, it would make more sense for the production version to have it. Having this prototype be CODAG is probably a combination of cost savings and technical risk reduction.

Those aren’t electric drives though.

“though DoD did decide to downsize it quite a bit because of the overlap between the F-35C, the F/A-X program”

I’m guessing CODAG.

I’m actually more surprised they didn’t go electric drive. With the on station time they’re claiming, I would have guessed a similar setup to Zumwalt.

You touch on a very important subject that really eludes naval ship cost estimation. Historically it’s always been a weight-based cost model (‘X’ tonnes at ‘Y’ dollars per tonne). This flawed model was also extended to capability as well (‘X’ tonnes means you need ‘Z’ kilowatts available). We’re just now beginning to…

That assumes a broadside impact. I would posit that a CONEMP would use more ballistic trajectories. Let the rounds penetrate topside and, if you’re lucky, exit below the waterline.

That’s right, sailors. Suck in that efflux. Trust, it’s good for you. Develops character. smh

Wine Out. Everything else is second best.

“the parachute makes sure a nose-mounted contact fuse triggers the bomblet”

Nah. The Iraqi Kurdistan government isn’t particularly accepting of the PKK and similar groups. In fact they’re pretty vocally opposed to them.

“Can’t imagine passive sonar would be much use for diesel subs running on battery, but I guess it could work for the nuclear ones.”

“wouldn’t shooting missiles to space from supersonic high altitude aircraft be more effective and require less R&D?”