Original post by
glad rag:
Hang on though. WEBF does have one point, 35C has autoland coming, right? what about the B??
I wonder how F-35C (with the built in engine flex) auto land will handle certain interesting conditions, watch:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=4gGMI8d3vLs
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=S0yj70QbBzg
Original post by
ThinkTanker
LBJ is the third of the Zumwalt class (USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
It's the third and last, each of the three ships cost $3.4 billion added to more than $9 billion in development costs bringing the total to over $12 billion. The program is currently cancelled. Although the ship has stealth characteristics, it would be required to approach within 30 nm of shore to fire its guns effectively. It would be vulnerable to visual detection and no more survivable than the DDGs it would be replacing. So Lyndon has to be satisfied his name is on a limited edition ship. Another well thought out DoD program.
