The U.S. Navy's Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyers are a typical example of their misplaced technology tree. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Navy naively believed that the only opponent who could pose a threat to itself had completely disappeared, so in the future, the U.S. Navy did not need to continue to compete for sea supremacy, but after easily eliminating the opponent's sea power, it would "stand on the pile output" in the other side's coastal waters and escort the Marines to land! This is the "sea to land" strategy!
To this end, the Zumwalt-class destroyers, with two 155 mm caliber "advanced naval gun systems", were able to quickly throw a large number of heavily charged 155 mm shells into the opposing defensive positions in a short period of time, cover the landing forces as much as possible, and destroy the important infrastructure along the enemy coast. The ideals of the U.S. Navy are good, but ideals and reality are not the same thing!
It turns out that the U.S. Navy completely ignored the changes in the sea power of other countries! The conditions for the output of the pile no longer existed, and they could not even take down the sea control, let alone cover the landing troops. But three sky-high sci-fi warships, the total cost of up to $22 billion! The Americans could not abandon it.
But now, their thinking about the future development direction of the battleship is still very confused, there is news that in the future, the battleship is likely to be converted into a launch platform for maritime hypersonic missiles, but the US Navy has not even been able to break through the technology of hypersonic missiles!
According to the latest reports in the US media, the Zumwalt guided missile destroyer returned to the San Diego military port on the west coast of the United States, and as a result, the originally spirited "science fiction warship" turned out to be tired, not only rusty, but even a lot of yellow-brown patches.
It is also worth mentioning that the battleship was filmed when it entered the San Diego military port and entered the waters of the port, at this time the harbor ladder has been set up, but the sailors on the battleship are unusually not in place on the deck, standing on the slope, and do not hang the entry and exit visual ship name identification flag, which is very unreasonable.
Another point is that the rear deck of the battleship at that time had been set up with a purple awning canopy, and generally speaking, this situation would only appear after the warship arrived at the port and the cable was completely anchored, and everything turned out to be unreasonable. It's hard to find an answer to this question, so there's a bigger question: Why did this sci-fi battleship fall into such a state of seeming decadence?
The first is the very obvious rust problem, which on the surface appears to be of two kinds of rust marks on the battleship: the first is from below the main deck. Rust that extends to the middle of the hull, followed by a block-type rust of the hull superstructure, although it can be seen. There are some signs of attempts to remove rust, in addition, in the gun deck of the destroyer's two guns, there is almost no rust, which should be the result of different materials used, but on the whole, the maintenance is still quite unsatisfactory.
USS Zumwalt guided-missile destroyer. The current situation is enough to explain some problems, first of all, the maintenance time of this destroyer is seriously insufficient, and the manpower is seriously insufficient, but the most fatal thing is that the allocation of maintenance materials has gone wrong, which is unimaginable for the rich US Navy in the past, not to mention that the US Congress has just passed as much as $768 billion in military spending.
From the current point of view, Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyers, in the US Navy's combat sequence, should be in a serious state of disapproval, Although there is a full load displacement of 14,000 tons, the vertical firing system of 80 units, as well as two 155 mm guns, are destined to become chicken ribs in modern war conditions, and at the same time, the United States is slow to make a real breakthrough in hypersonic weapons, and it is also doomed to do nothing for a long time to come, so it is normal to be so rusty.