Navy Seeks Rail Guns, Lasers, Cruise Missiles To Improve Pacific Firepower

Folks this should be big news! A Destroyer Tender for 2026!!! AD(X)

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General Dynamics Unveils AD(X) VLS-Reloading Destroyer Tender - Naval News

General Dynamics NASSCO unveiled its internally developed concept for an AD(X) destroyer tender at the Surface Navy Association's National Symposium in Washington this week, pitching the ship class as a near-identical ship to the AS(X) submarine tender NASSCO is building for the U.S. Navy.
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Is there anything shared between HVP and MADFIRES? Like guidance etc. Apart from both being subcalibre, and both been developed but not in production...
 
This eliminates the need for loading personnel in the ammunition storehouse or at the bottom of the ship, contributing to space savings and manpower reduction.
 
Scott Kenny said:
The BBG is replacing the DDGX program.

There will be a new Burke-class replacement eventually.
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My understanding is that DDGX is still budgeted. In any case, BBGX and FFX die as soon as Trump leaves office.
 
Josh_TN said:
In any case, BBGX and FFX die as soon as Trump leaves office.
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Doing that would be incredibly stupid.

BBGX is a full Aegis BMD radar suite plus real flagship space the USN hasn't had since the 1990s. It's also got a dozen CPS tubes and the usual ~120something Mk41 tubes. The USN absolutely needs all that. In fact, the USN needs at least 20 if not 30 of them.

The USN is also in dire, dire need of ships that would allow Burkes to go to fight. Which is what the Constellation was supposed to be, and what FFX also is partially supposed to be.
 
..guessing the Japanese handled the :"issues" w the previously abandoned USN effort and passed that knowledge along.

IMHO 'light gas" & binary liquid propellant guns deserve a gander, as electric power is still an issue if there is no reactor on tap.
 
Scott Kenny said:
Doing that would be incredibly stupid.

BBGX is a full Aegis BMD radar suite plus real flagship space the USN hasn't had since the 1990s. It's also got a dozen CPS tubes and the usual ~120something Mk41 tubes. The USN absolutely needs all that. In fact, the USN needs at least 20 if not 30 of them.

The USN is also in dire, dire need of ships that would allow Burkes to go to fight. Which is what the Constellation was supposed to be, and what FFX also is partially supposed to be.
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Ignoring the fact that I disagree with the design philosophy and that Congress will never fund 3 let alone 30, the fact is all of Trump’s initiatives at the executive level will be erased by a democratic administration with extreme prejudice. Things Trump destroyed will be incredible hard to rebuild, but things that he attempted to build will be easy to destroy. And BBGX will still be a paper project in 2029.

That’s what happens when you attempt to use executive power to change things rather than legislation - the next executive can do the same thing. I believe DDGX program is still funded and likely that proceeds on its previous course again, and FFGX is still to produce two ships, so likely that program is resurrected when FFX is cancelled as well.
 
jsport said:
..guessing the Japanese handled the :"issues" w the previously abandoned USN effort and passed that knowledge along.

IMHO 'light gas" & binary liquid propellant guns deserve a gander, as electric power is still an issue if there is no reactor on tap.
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I think it's more the case that the initial use (fire support) was dropped a new use (terminal hypersonic and BM defence) found.
 
Forest Green said:
I think it's more the case that the initial use (fire support) was dropped a new use (terminal hypersonic and BM defence) found.
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Yes, but there were rapid overheating of the rail as an issue as well. If memory serves me.
 
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U.S. Navy begins search for Mk 41 VLS-launched hypersonic weapons - Naval News

A new Innovative Naval Prototype (INP) program is looking to advance the service’s hypersonic portfolio by combining its past investments and prior applied research into a combined effort that will field low-cost hypersonic boost-glide missiles in Mk 41 VLS cells. The U.S. Navy unveiled its...
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The U.S. Navy unveiled its Flight Advancement of Structures for Hypersonics (FLASH) program this week, aiming to prove a “surface-launched, tactical range, hypersonic strike capability” that can be fielded in Mark 41 VLS cells and Virginia-class Payload Module cells. FLASH represents the service’s first dedicated effort to field a tactical range hypersonic strike system on surface ships since the SM-6 Block IB was paused last year.
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“The primary focus of the FLASH program is to demonstrate a tactically relevant range, low cost, hypersonic capability via advanced aerodynamics, control techniques and resulting relaxed reliance on exquisite materials.”
The FLASH INP will build out the fleet’s hypersonic boost-glide technology that is currently centered around the Zumwalt-class Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) weapon. CPS requires specialized launch tubes that aren’t found on any current U.S. Navy ships or submarines, putting stress on the three Zumwalt-class hulls currently undergoing a complex refit before they move to Pearl Harbor to serve as INDOPACOM’s long-range surface strike arm.
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jsport said:
Yes, but there were rapid overheating of the rail as an issue as well. If memory serves me.
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I'll bet things will move much faster now that they haven't looked at it for years and everybody has moved on.
 
Sferrin said:
I'll bet things will move much faster now that they haven't looked at it for years and everybody has moved on.
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The Japanese seem to have got goings. wondering if problems solved r proprietary or national secrets as apparently the german emrg program is in
collaboration w the Japanese. Not sure about the S Koreans & had not heard that Turkeye's program is in a collab either.
 

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