BBG(X) - US Next Generation Battleship

Sferrin said:
Yuck. What's with the giant deck houses?
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I think the design split up the propulsion, sensors, and communication suite and had a fall back fire control/CIC in the aft section such that individual hits could not fully mission kill the ship.
 
TomS said:
Propulsion, to an extent.
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Fair enough, and someone pointed out the exact radar installation was new, though I would argue it was made from existing components in service. But the problem was not any one system, and more over BBGX will also have a new propulsion and radar installation.

The idea that suddenly the USN can flawlessly design a larger, more complicated ship in a year or two seems like unbridled fantasy.
 
I think that the Lockheed design is not too bad for a start given the twin island structure, certainly if it improves survivability in a shooting war then that is the way to go.
 
FighterJock said:
I think that the Lockheed design is not too bad for a start given the twin island structure, certainly if it improves survivability in a shooting war then that is the way to go.
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I am highly skeptical survivability is increased to an signifcant degree. The Japanese determined that a single heavy ASM would sink a FFG, and the leaked Chinese simulation data showed that a single DF21 hit would break the back of a Nimitz class and sink it. Adding a couple dozen feet of extra seperation between some systems won't help very much.
 
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