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Saturday, March 05, 2011

The case to restart the DDG-1000 class

Zumwalt class destroyer (DDG-1000)Your readership needs an amplifying commentary to Seth Koenig’s article on the recent visit of Navy chief of naval operations, Adm. Gary Roughead, to Bath Iron Works (“Collins, Navy official stump for more ships,” Feb. 24).

The admiral is reported to have touted the venerable — but dated — Arleigh Burke-class of destroyer as having capabilities superior to the DDG-1000 in “integrated air defense.” While this may be the case today, this is so precisely because the Navy has taken steps to ensure that the Zumwalt class is not upgraded to make it a first-class air defense ship.

In fact, by cancelling the dual band radar originally planned for Zumwalt, it would appear that the plan is to ensure the ship’s inferiority in this critical warfare area.

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