Commentary from Military Review Telegram Channel
[ColonelCassad] This was said by US Navy Admiral Charles Richard. He said that the United States missed the moment of containing China. The United States (quote) "was far behind due to the failed Zumwalt class destroyers program from Chinese Type-055 destroyers."
For the first time at this level, Zumwalt, worth more than seven billion per copy, was called the cause of the degradation of the American navy.
"Zumwalt" never learned to swim well, to be truly "invisible" and did not even acquire the main weapon, which was first intended to be "railguns", and then hypersonic missiles. Today, the United States does not have a sufficient degree of readiness for either one or the other.
In terms of displacement, Zumwalt is one of the largest attack ships, and in terms of cost it has outstripped the price of the newest aircraft carrier of the Gerald R. Ford type.
Here is one of the most expensive warships in history. One shot of his precision-guided 155mm cannon costs over half a million dollars.
The fact that the Zumwalt are worthless became known at the beginning of 2020, when a new project of the main US destroyer was adopted (the DDG (X) program.
The new US Navy ship, which will be launched no earlier than 2028, is suspiciously similar on the Chinese destroyer of the Type-055 project.The
Chinese destroyer "Type-055" can claim the title of a cruiser. The ship, with a displacement of over 13,000 tons, has 112 launch cells for missiles of various classes, from anti-aircraft HHQ-9 to unique ballistic anti-ship missiles YJ- 21.
Thanks to the latest AFAR radar, the ship has excellent situational awareness and is now actively participating in the "quiet" naval blockade of Taiwan.
The funny thing is that the promising American destroyers "DDG (X)" will be much more similar to the Chinese "Type-055" than to the successors of the "Zumwalt" concept. True, they will cost three times more than the "Chinese" (about $ 4 billion), but there's nothing to be done about it. This is the tradition of the USA.
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Says military journalist Boris Rozhin:
I remember back in 2017 or 2018, the American press came across publications on the dubiousness of the Zumwalt project and the need to stop suffering garbage and build normal large-scale destroyers to compensate for China's shipbuilding program, which was aimed at building a whole fleet of large destroyers of the 54 and 55 type.
But with this dragged on for several years and only at the beginning of the 20s they rushed to create their own answer to large Chinese destroyers, which in size (especially type 55) are closer to missile cruisers of the Ticonderoga and Atlant types, being an integral part of the new Chinese AUG.
Well, among other things, the United States' lagging behind China in matters of hypersonic weapons also makes the situation with the confrontation at sea no longer as clear-cut as it was 10 years ago. Although the United States quantitatively, and qualitatively, still outnumber the Chinese Navy. But the difference between them continues to shrink. Both quantitatively and qualitatively.'
