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eddie 11-08-16 02:01 PM

USS Zumwalt ammo is expensive!!!
 
This new ships ammo for its guns is really spendy, at $800,000 to $1 Million a piece. Ship can carry 600 rounds, but how do you afford that,lol

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the...ire/ar-AAk2EVy

Oberon 11-08-16 02:26 PM

Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?! :nope:

Jimbuna 11-08-16 02:33 PM

A simple fix.....do as the Royal Navy does and send the ships out on patrol with near-empty magazines.

eddie 11-08-16 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2445258)
A simple fix.....do as the Royal Navy does and send the ships out on patrol with near-empty magazines.

LOL

AndyJWest 11-08-16 03:38 PM

It has guns? I thought that it was designed on the principle that if you make something ugly enough, the enemy will run away before you have to fire a shot. :03:

eddie 11-08-16 03:56 PM

yeah it has guns,lol 155mm to be exact. These new rounds are actually a missile. The Navy wanted to order 28 of these ships at first, but with a price tag of $4 Billion a piece they had to trim the order back to three. They were quoted a price of $50K a piece for the rounds if they bought 28 ships, but the price jumped when they cut back the order for 3 ships. Get us coming and going on this deal!

kraznyi_oktjabr 11-08-16 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2445258)
A simple fix.....do as the Royal Navy does and send the ships out on patrol with near-empty magazines.

Do we have any evidence, that U.S. Navy ships actually carry more than planned to use amount of ammunition, bombs and missiles? Lets say for Burke four ESSMs (just in case) couple of Tomahawks and maybe even Harpoon or two and handful of RAMs. You know bluffing in major scale. :yep:

mapuc 11-08-16 04:42 PM

The first news agency who came with this story was RT.

Markus

Jimbuna 11-08-16 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr (Post 2445287)
Do we have any evidence, that U.S. Navy ships actually carry more than planned to use amount of ammunition, bombs and missiles? Lets say for Burke four ESSMs (just in case) couple of Tomahawks and maybe even Harpoon or two and handful of RAMs. You know bluffing in major scale. :yep:

Could rely on the honesty of an answer from whoever becomes POTUS tomorrow? :hmmm:

Mr Quatro 11-08-16 05:05 PM

$800,000 dollars each!

Just load them up and print more money that we borrow from China ... :hmmm:

em2nought 11-08-16 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro (Post 2445302)
$800,000 dollars each!

Just load them up and print more money that we borrow from China ... :hmmm:

Or retrofit a quarter of the fleet into Bering Sea gold hunters. :03:

Platapus 11-10-16 06:31 PM

So LMC won the contract by bidding $50,000 cost per round and after getting the contract, they "discovered" that the actual cost would be $800,000 and no one is going to jail?

I best some LMC exec got a huge bonus for pulling this off.

Jimbuna 11-11-16 06:59 AM

Could be someone was given an 'under the table' licence to print money.

Oberon 11-11-16 08:42 AM

Could fill the front with concrete and use it as a ram I guess. :hmmm:

davis20 11-11-16 10:52 AM

Saw it on sea trials the other day. Here is a pic. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...6d200a8365.jpg

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