BagOfDoorknobs

Electrical Engineer (BS and MS), but spend most of my time as a half-baked aerospace/astrodynamics engineer. Spent the last 25 years in the space business.

gouacats

Civil (mainly transportation) engineer here. I had a great time in college, but did study quite a bit...

Jlp10

Mechanical Engineer here. I had many sleepless nights studying during school. The toughest was the mandatory Art Appreciation elective course. I build warships for the navy now.

2007 Jeep JK

wjfawb0

The DDG-1000 looks interesting. I'm curious to see how it's used. There have been a lot of detractors.

USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"On 31 July 2008, U.S. Navy acquisition officials told Congress that the service needed to purchase more Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, and no longer needs the next-generation DDG-1000 class, Only the two approved destroyers would be built. The navy said the world threat picture had changed in such a way that it now makes more sense to build at least eight more Burkes, rather than DDG-1000s. The navy concluded from fifteen classified intelligence reports that the DDG-1000s would be vulnerable to forms of missile attacks. Many Congressional subcommittee members appeared incredulous that the navy could have conducted such a sweeping re-evaluation of the world threat picture in just a few weeks, after spending some 13 years and $10 billion on the surface ship program known as DD-21, then DD(X) and finally, DDG-1000."

The main thread where I've read about it:
Zumwalt (DDG-1000) - Corner-Carvers Forums

At least James Kirk is the commanding officer.
Commanding Officer