The last cry of the military technology of the USA: one shot cost of 800,000 … – RTP

The ship is described as the largest destroyer of the world, with its 183 meters of length and its 15,000 tons of tonnage. He made his debut to the service of the navy north american in October, and the two main cannons are still “in development”.

But evil was released to the water, since the Zumwalt is faced with a problem: according to sources of the navy, cited on the site specialized Defense News, the Pentagon ordered to suspend the development of the Advanced Gun System (AGS) of the two cannons, because I realized that you would face-to-joke and that there would be no budget to sustain. Asked to comment, spokespeople from the navy maintained silence.

One of the factors that made the cost unaffordable was the reduction of the plans megalómanos designed in the 1990s. At that time, the Pentagon has planned to build a fleet of 32 ships identical to the Zumwalt. As this would cost a exorbitância, in 2001 reduced the plans to the building of only three – of which the Zumwalt is the first.

With this saved a lot of money – but, with the loss of economies of scale, increased exponentially the unit cost of each vessel and of each of its components. All three cost far less than the 32, but each one of them costs much more than it would have cost each of the 32.

The initial idea was to have the pieces capable of aiming targets up to a distance of 120 kilometres – the longest distance that a vessel of war north american can aim for. The projectiles of 155 mm, designated as LRLAP (Long Range Land Attack Projectile), weigh 100 kilograms each and measure 2,20 metres. To the being fired, to follow as all the projectiles conventional a curve ballistics determined by several factors (thrust, weight, etc.) and, as they approached the target, they would be guided by a GPS system.

The manufacturer is the well-known multinational branch of the military Lockheed Martin, that propagandeia the accuracy of this system of naval artillery as especially appropriate to the intervention in the struggles of the street in coastal cities.

Apparently, the navy is oriented now to install on the ship systems, missile launch, which, being slightly more expensive, are much more advanced from the point of view of the technology of the cannons.