{"id":68866,"date":"2016-11-09T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68866"},"modified":"2016-11-09T10:17:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:17:50","slug":"navys-big-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68866","title":{"rendered":"Navy&#8217;s big guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=68867\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68867\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/LRLAP.jpg?resize=266%2C190\" alt=\"LRLAP\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68867\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/articles\/new-warships-big-guns-have-no-bullets\">Defense News<\/a> reports that the new Zumwalt-class destroyers are fitted with two DDG 1000\u2019s Advanced Gun System (AGS), a 155mm\/62-caliber gun with an automated magazine and handling system. The trgeting system is accurate enough to take out specific buildings with a minimum collateral damage in the same city block. However, the $800,000 per round price tag on ammunition for the system may kill the program;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the LRLAP\u2019s unit price has jumped steadily as the numbers of Zumwalt-class destroyers were cut. From a total of 28 ships, to seven, and finally to three, the class shrank and costs did not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were going to buy thousands of these rounds,\u201d said a Navy official familiar with the program. \u201cBut quantities of ships killed the affordable round.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, as with much of the cost-saving plans of this administration, it will probably result in even more costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense News reports that the new Zumwalt-class destroyers are fitted with two DDG 1000\u2019s Advanced Gun System (AGS), a 155mm\/62-caliber gun with an automated magazine and handling system. The trgeting system is accurate enough to take out specific buildings with a minimum collateral damage in the same city block. However, the $800,000 per round price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/LRLAP.jpg?fit=266%2C190&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-hUK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}