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Navy Destroyers - Now with Drone Technology

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The newest destroyer in the United States Navy utilizes stealth technology, packs a powerful punch and can carry out many functions without human input.

As the first of a new class of destroyer, the U.S.S. Zumwalt is designed for a wide range of missions. Attacking onshore targets is a focus of the new class of Naval weapon.

Typical destroyers have a crew of around 300 crew members. This new vessel will have a complement of just 150. Under extreme conditions, the ship can carry out a complete mission with just 40 people on board.

Wade Knudson, who heads the Zumwalt project for Raytheon, said “Most UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] are a few million dollars. This is a $5 billion UAV.”

The new destroyer is 600-feet long, and weighs more than 14,500 tons. Stealth technology gives the ship a radar signature the same size as a fishing boat. Deckhouses and hangers for the new destroyer are angled, like a B-2 stealth bomber, and are covered in a composite material.

Navy officials originally asked for 32 new Zumwalt-class destroyers. That request was trimmed down to three ships by the U.S. Congress.

A Total Ship Computing Environment allows officers to manage ship functions from more than two dozen locations around the vessel. In an emergency, the captain only needs to sign in to the nearest terminal to take control of the ship.

The Zumwalt is one of the most modern, sophisticated vessel of wars in the world, and possesses some of the most advanced weapons ever made. With this great destructive power at the command of anyone with the right passwords, the danger from hackers escalates. Still, the Navy insists it has a system to ensure security.

Knudson said, “It’s the same ways [sic] that we protect information in classified networks, through having processes and procedures to make sure the password is sophisticated. It’s incumbent on the captain not to share it with anybody. Everyone’s got to protect their password, and it can’t be ‘password.’”

We can only hope the security procedure involves more than using one upper case letter and a punctuation mark.

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