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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.

I miss the battleships. Especially the Iowas, now those were good looking ships.

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

You aren't the only one...

Interesting...

I think it looks kind of neat, personally.

It doesn't look all that bad...

EDIT: I can't spell today!

She's uglier than a box of frogs.

What is ugly about a box of frogs? I like frogs

Alyrium Denryle wrote:What is ugly about a box of frogs? I like frogs

You like the French? You anti-Ameican Swine!

Well I will not go into a political discussion right now

But I like these frogs

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

http://members.aol.com/LcimaHotel/frogs.jpg

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...

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

Hear hear!

Look at my previous post and you will see what I mean...

Ack! *thwaps Alyrium*

Do you have any idea how big those pictures are?

reducing them to links

That ship is shaped that way because it is designed to be stealthy to radar.

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.

Link doesn't work.

Gee, I guess I'm the only one who likes how it looks...

I think the tower part is a little too tall, besides that it looks nice to me.

yanno what it looks like? a sub. it does, like some U-Boat or sommat.

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.

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?

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...

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!

For comparison, Bouvet

I'm getting a "connection refused" message using Mozilla.

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