09.02.2025, 11:13
Mal wieder ein zaghaftes Lebenszeichen des Projektes:
Schneemann
Zitat:DDG(X) Next-Generation Destroyer’s Capabilities And Costs Are Solidifying [...]https://www.twz.com/news-features/ddgx-n...olidifying
[Jan 15, 2025]
As the U.S. Navy’s next-generation destroyer, currently dubbed the DDG(X), continues through concept design stages, the service’s surface warfare director reiterated Tuesday how the future ship must be able to field a wider variety of weapons systems, while sporting nearly unprecedented levels of power production. And while questions remain about delivery schedules and cost, the Navy needs to make DDG(X) far more capable of taking on future systems and upgrades than its predecessor, the Arleigh Burke destroyer class, a design that is now officially ‘maxed out’ in terms of future growth. [...]
The Navy has remained largely mum as of late about where the DDG(X) effort currently stands, but Rear Adm. Bill Daly gave an update on the program during the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference, which TWZ attended.
“DDG(X) is a must do, operationally, tactically, for shipbuilding,” Daly said. “The DDG(X) design is our clean-sheet imperative to update warship endurance, power production and storage, C5I [command, control, communication, computer, cyber and intelligence], and weapons technology such as hypersonics and directed energy.” Daly noted that U.S. households consume 40% more power than they did when the lead destroyer in the current destroyer class, USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), was built in the late 1980s, and that such consumption has translated to ships as well. [...]
TWZ has in the past reported what the DDG(X)’s so-called Integrated Power System (IPS) will offer:
“IPS will also be vital to meet the increased power generation demands of both directed-energy weapons and powerful sensor arrays. The technology behind IPS is the same as found in the Zumwalt class of destroyers, in which an advanced turbo-electric drive system replaces the traditional gas-turbine propulsion gear. While the Zumwalt class has not proved a success, with only three hulls completed, its propulsion system is unquestionably powerful, putting out more than 75 megawatts of power.”
Daly also suggested that the exact weapons systems aboard DDG(X) remain in the works, but TWZ has reported on how they will likely include long-range surface-to-air and hypersonic missiles, as well as directed-energy weapons. To date, Zumwalt class are the only Navy surface combatants capable of generating such high levels of electricity and are in the midst of being outfitted with launchers to eventually fire Intermediate-Range Conventional Prompt Strike (IRCPS) hypersonic missiles. [...]
Either way, DDG(X) is planned as a bigger ship than its Burke brethren, displacing 13,500 tons, which is nearly 40% greater than the 9,700-ton displacement of the latest Flight III Arleigh Burke variant, according to a December Congressional Research Service report.
While DDG(X) will host the Flight III Aegis Combat System and the high-powered AN/SPY-6 radar, also known as the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) or Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR), DDG(X) will have more margin for growth than Flight IIIs, which means more space, weight capacity, electrical power and cooling capacity allowing it to accommodate new higher-power equipment and directed-energy weapons over its service life, the CRS report states.
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