There is a popular saying today, called: History cannot be read carefully. In fact, this sentence can also be directly applied to some so-called new weapons. For example, when the DDG1000 project of the superpower navy was just released, due to the abnormal retro ridge hull shape, the simple large cubic pyramid-shaped superstructure, and the claim to be equipped with two epoch-making electromagnetic cannons as the main combat weapon, it was immediately exclaimed by the world as a super-era science fiction battleship . It is enough to represent a huge global leader that the superpower navy will remain unshakable for the next 30 to 50 years. As a result, more than ten years have passed, and the actual performance of the DDG1000 project is far less arrogant than the outside world expected it at the time. The actual result of anti-missile missile has become a laughing stock in the world. This is the project cost tens of billions of dollars, and only three ships were built, each of which had an actual construction cost of more than 8 billion US dollars, and it was even a trend towards $10 billion US dollars. If you continue to do it, the unit price of its hull will almost catch up with the Ford-class aircraft carrier . But there is still no one with real combat power,
. The entire project originally had to produce more than 20 ships, but the orders after 3 ships have been cancelled. As a result, the huge R&D funds can only be distributed to a small number of only three ships, resulting in the cost of a single ship being unable to be reduced no matter what. If the cost is higher, it is fine if the performance is excellent; in fact, there is almost nothing that makes people worry-free from power to weapons to sensors. In other words, no one can pass the test. For example, for an all-electric propulsion system powered by Rolls-Royce gas turbines, the entire ship may lose power when the outside weather exceeds 25 degrees Celsius. The first ship DDG1000 once experimentally passed the Panama Canal located in tropical waters, but it was paralyzed and unable to move halfway! He could only send a high-power tugboat and dragged it back from thousands of miles away. It became a big joke back then. With this power system, the originally high-end and highly integrated ship island has been proven to be unable to solve the problem of severe electromagnetic interference between different shield surfaces and . In the end, there is no way, so I can only open new windows on the originally smooth island of
, add a platform that stands outward, and then "mushrooms" of large and small sizes on the platform. In fact, a new batch of radar and sensor covers are added, which means that the originally very tall pyramid-shaped superstructure is completely designed; the original expectation of reducing radar reflection indicators has completely failed. As for the front deck, the two electromagnetic cannons that gave high expectations were actually completely dismounted. Because the land experimental electromagnetic gun project has been cancelled, how can the actual shipwreck version of electromagnetic gun appear again out of thin air? However, for the sake of face, the superpower navy did not want to install two ordinary large caliber naval guns, , so it said it would develop rocket-boosted ultra-long-range guided shells for these two guns. As a result, this shell was quoted for a single shot of more than 800,000 US dollars, which was almost up to the unit price of the tactical tomahawk. As a result, these two cannons have no shells to date, and in reality, even a single shell has not been tested.
There are also 80 vertical missile wells installed on the outermost side of the ship's freeboard, which is nicknamed the new era of ship explosion reaction armor. If any external shell or even large-caliber bullet hits the freeboard of DDG1000 in actual combat, it may trigger a large-scale death explosion. Even an easy external impact will trigger an internal ammunition explosion, greatly expanding the damage of external strikes. I really don't know how the original design was considered. The biggest discomfort comes from the sentence at the beginning of this article. Without actual combat and just looking from a distance, two to three DDG1000s can still be seen, but once you get closer to within a few dozen meters, you will find that the hull that has not yet been officially in service is actually covered with orange peel, which is also called the thin horse phenomenon of steel plates on the surface of the hull. Generally speaking, only the old ships that have been in service for more than 30 years will have such serious surface steel plates when the wind and waves are blown and the long-term hull welding stress is released, and the convexity and unevenness of
; but DDG1000 is a "new ship" that has not yet been officially on duty.Some people say that from the same perspective, isn’t the pyramid-shaped superstructure still very smooth on the surface? This is because the superstructures of the first two ships are made of aluminum alloy materials, and aluminum alloy naturally does not have this kind of phenomenon. And when DDG1002, which is the third ship, in order to save costs, the superstructure is also made of all steel, which will inevitably be as ugly as the hull. The hull of DDG1000 was so unbearable early, mainly due to the comprehensive landslide of the welding process. The so-called good warships are all welded. The dignified superpower can't even get hundreds of qualified senior welding workers. It’s really a leaf that knows autumn, and the frost and ice are coming!
