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Really? By whom? Because it doesn't make much sense as far as I can see.If we're talking about literally transplanting a Burke superstructure onto a Zumwalt hull, well you know basic things like the locations of machinery rooms and uptakes aren't going to line up. And I'm not even sure it fits -- what is the Z's beam at the weather deck, compared to the Burke, for example?If we're talking more about appearance -- putting a limited LO superstructure similar to the Burke design on a Zumwalt hull -- then it's not physically impossible, but it doesn't make a ton of sense. The tumblehome hull is largely designed around a VLO approach. If you aren't doing that, you don't need all the features of the DDG-1000 hull, like the variable ballast tanks. The level that makes some degree of sense is integrating something like the DDG-51 Flight III combat systems into a newer and less cramped hull design possibly related to the DDG-1000. That lets you worry about getting the hull and integration right without managing the moving target of a new combat system as well. And it lets you decide how much LO you actually want -- it might be that the VLO approach of the Zumwalts is overkill for a ship that has to emit to be effective. So maybe you want a new hull with just common machinery to the DDG-1000s.
Really? By whom? Because it doesn't make much sense as far as I can see.
If we're talking about literally transplanting a Burke superstructure onto a Zumwalt hull, well you know basic things like the locations of machinery rooms and uptakes aren't going to line up. And I'm not even sure it fits -- what is the Z's beam at the weather deck, compared to the Burke, for example?
If we're talking more about appearance -- putting a limited LO superstructure similar to the Burke design on a Zumwalt hull -- then it's not physically impossible, but it doesn't make a ton of sense. The tumblehome hull is largely designed around a VLO approach. If you aren't doing that, you don't need all the features of the DDG-1000 hull, like the variable ballast tanks.
The level that makes some degree of sense is integrating something like the DDG-51 Flight III combat systems into a newer and less cramped hull design possibly related to the DDG-1000. That lets you worry about getting the hull and integration right without managing the moving target of a new combat system as well. And it lets you decide how much LO you actually want -- it might be that the VLO approach of the Zumwalts is overkill for a ship that has to emit to be effective. So maybe you want a new hull with just common machinery to the DDG-1000s.
