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Weird new warship USS Zumwalt has broken down while on sea trials, three weeks ahead of her formal commissioning ceremony.
The futuristic $4.4bn vessel, which features a so-called "tumblehome" hull, suffered a seawater leak into the auxiliary lube oil system for one of her main propeller shafts, according to [U.S. Naval Institute] News.
The defect will take about two weeks to repair at US Naval Station Norfolk, it was said.
An absolute behemoth of a ship, the 16,000 ton Zumwalt--almost three times as big as the UK's already large Type 45 destroyers--was intended to be the lead ship of a new class of warships that would have cemented US naval dominance well into the 21st Century.
Instead, the entire program, supposedly for 36 vessels, was [canceled] after the third ship was laid down, thanks to some seriously eye-watering costs. The US Navy has since started buying new-build Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the basic design of which dates back to the mid-1980s.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Nuke on Thursday September 22 2016, @06:26PM
a so-called "tumblehome" hull
Why does this so-called article on this so-called Soylent News have to so-called prefix a so-called adjective with the so-called phrase "so-called" ?
So-called "tumblehome" is a so-called perfectly so-called normal so-called term for a so-called style of so-called hull in so-called naval architecture.
It means that the so-called width at the so-called deck is less than the so-called width at the so-called waterline.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @06:31PM
The Zumwalt tumbled home has a nice ring to it (unless you're on the crew).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by butthurt on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:43PM
The odd shape is said to have been chosen to lessen the ship's so-called "radar signature." Another so-called "stealth" measure is sheets of water pouring down the sides of the ship, intended to lessen infrared emissions. That would be more difficult to do, in my estimation, with a conventional hull that is wider at the deck level than at the so-called "water line."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblehome#Modern_warship_design [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday September 23 2016, @12:49AM
Nuke, you so called that, man!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2016, @01:54AM
It's not from an "article on SoylentNews". Most of the stuff you see here are just summaries of articles linked in from other sites (there are a few actual articles like NCommander's retro-malware series [soylentnews.org] but those are the exceptions). The 'so-called' is part of a quote from the actual article, which actually comes from the US Naval Institute News [usni.org].