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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Newest Navy warship DDG-1000 destroyer cost a staggering $3.1 billion per unit

Zumwalt (DDG-1000) class destroyerThe Associated Press is reporting a story concerning a new "Zumwalt" class destroyer being built in Maine called “the most advanced warship in modern history."

The new ship the “DDG-1000 destroyer is being nicknamed the “silver bullet”, not only because it sort of resembles a silver metallic beer can in the middle but because it can travel at supposedly “super stealth” speed along an enemies coast line, even in the shallows.

The new warship could deploy it as early as 2014 and will be equipped with all the latest in high tech including so called: “electromagnetic rail guns” that with the help of a magnetic field and electric current will run projectiles at speeds several times faster than the speed of sound.

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