In any case, the Zumwalt does provide a little out of the box thinking- peripheral VLS means the weapons are being spread out for redundancy. But I can't find where I might have read it. I swaer I read a while back that the Mk 57 VLS provided some battle damage protection by having the 'inner' walls thicker than the outer walls, so that the explosive force would exit through the weaker wall- ie- outwards. The US also fails to rigorously test its systems and we should have learned a lesson from this incident but we did not. The real failure is French command for failing to rigorously test the system. Hardly surprising that a system that has never been used would fail in its first actual use. So, the problem seems to be neither diplomacy nor training but, rather, simply system failure on the part of a never before used system. Regarding training and live fire exercises, every CNO wants more training! There's no mention of Russian interference and the acknowledgement seems to be one of simple system failure. 'The three naval cruise missiles fired from the French frigate Languedoc were initially intended to come from a different French frigate whose first salvo simply “did not fire,” French Joint Chief of Staff spokesman Col. It is equally likely that the ship simply suffered a failure and was unable to launch - which is what most of the reports claimed. I make no such assumption without supporting evidence. You're assuming that one of the two explanations you offered is true. In the fight is a timeless reminder of the reality of combat and one that weĭesigners understood this even though we’ve forgotten the lesson, today. However, the lesson that armor mitigates damage and allows ships to stay (see, “Conceptual Armor For Modern Ships”). One is suggesting an exact duplicate of WWII armoring schemes for modern ships Moines class cruiser going up against the 57-76 mm guns so prevalent in today’sĬourse, anti-ship cruise missiles are a different story, to some degree, and no Bomb deck (intended to detonate armor piercing shells and high explosive bombsīefore they reached the main armor deck), 3.5” armor deck, up to 6” main belt,Īnd heavily armored main gun mounts, the class was well equipped to stand andįight and continue fighting while absorbing damage.

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