DD(X) DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers

[TomS]

And we're back around to POLAR. Because if you're putting GMLRS in a VLS, you might as well take advantage of the cell depth and extend the rocket motor significantly.

 

[kqcke for you]

And we're back around to POLAR. Because if you're putting GMLRS in a VLS, you might as well take advantage of the cell depth and extend the rocket motor significantly.

What would be interresting (or atleast the performance it could achieve) when we take a POLAR sized GMLRS-ER using an SDB glider with an GMLRS warhead (i heard they had tested something like that). Range could be quite big

 

[TomS]

What would be interresting (or atleast the performance it could achieve) when we take a POLAR sized GMLRS-ER using an SDB glider with an GMLRS warhead (i heard they had tested something like that). Range could be quite big

Yeah, that would go a long, long way. I'm not sure the last increment from a glider would offset the potential of a much larger bang in a purely ballistic version.

The other proposed weapon from the same era that might be worth revisiting is the Vertical-launch Autonomous Attack System, which was a VL ASROC booster with multiple (3 or 4, I think) LOCAAS attack drones as a payload. LOCAAS seems like exactly the sort of munition that would be useful these days.

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/littoral-combat-ship-freedom-independence.6234/post-718102

 

[raptor82]

https://news.usni.org/2024/11/14/navy-wants-to-start-conventional-prompt-strike-tests-aboard-uss-zumwalt-in-2027

Zumwalt is currently at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., for a yard period preparing the ship to accommodate CPS. Part of that overhaul is removing the destroyer’s 155mm Advanced Gun Systems and fitting it with four large diameter tubes to accommodate the missiles for CPS. Wolfe said this work is complete and went well. The ship is expected to come out of the yard next year.

The CPS system is modular, featuring an all-up round missile and a separate modular payload adapter. Wolfe said the Navy is currently testing the adapter, the missile and the eject system.