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Fugly new destroyer

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The Navy's new DD(X) destroyer class is back on track, and it looks like some fucked up beast.

http://peoships.crane.navy.mil/ddx/

have a looksee.
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I miss the battleships. Especially the Iowas, now those were good looking ships.
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Stormbringer wrote:I miss the battleships. Especially the Iowas, now those were good looking ships.
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Interesting...

I think it looks kind of neat, personally. :|
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It doesn't look all that bad...

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She's uglier than a box of frogs.
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What is ugly about a box of frogs? I like frogs
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Alyrium Denryle wrote:What is ugly about a box of frogs? I like frogs
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Well I will not go into a political discussion right now :D

But I like these frogs

http://www.biol.vt.edu/frogs.jpg

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Whatever happened to the form of ship building...

Ships used to be the epiphany of power and had a unique beauty about them, but now we have this computer designed box on water. Whatever happened to the actual human design...
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Stormbringer wrote:I miss the battleships. Especially the Iowas, now those were good looking ships.
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Ack! *thwaps Alyrium*

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reducing them to links
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That ship is shaped that way because it is designed to be stealthy to radar.
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Nathan F wrote:Whatever happened to the form of ship building...

Ships used to be the epiphany of power and had a unique beauty about them, but now we have this computer designed box on water. Whatever happened to the actual human design...
Considering what the ship is FOR, I suppose that some concessions to practicallity should be made so that, you know, we don't lose an ungodly-expensive warship and a bunch of sailors.

That said, yes. That thing is ugly like poop is ugly.
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Gee, I guess I'm the only one who likes how it looks... :?
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I think the tower part is a little too tall, besides that it looks nice to me.
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yanno what it looks like? a sub. it does, like some U-Boat or sommat.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Gee, I guess I'm the only one who likes how it looks... :?
You're not that alone. I like its sinister appearance. In fact, it vaguely reminds me of Emperor Palpatine's Eclipse.
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kojikun wrote:yanno what it looks like? a sub. it does, like some U-Boat or sommat.
Come on, this is the future!! We're suposed to have stuff that looks like this. Where were you in the 1980s? :P
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Personally I don''t care much about how it looks if it works well. That said, it doesn't look that bad, despite being a little boxy...
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Sr.mal wrote:That ship is shaped that way because it is designed to be stealthy to radar.
Unfortunately, it bears a close resemblence to French pre-dreadnought battleships in design. The ones famous for rolling over and sinking after suffering from only a small amount of damage - due to their hull form. Wundar ship here is probably going to have the same problem, especially with that huge superstructure. *shudders* Welcome to the era of the colonial patrol boat with no actual naval combat survivability, USN!

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Ah....the unspaekable uglyness of technobrick design, that things got all the style of a tounge depressor...........
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