Hmm. Surface stealth is one thing; I'd like to see how they plan on neutralizing the submarine threat.

The Navy has been working on this technology for awhile now. The ships are supposed to be smaller, faster and stealth. Now that there is more of a world threat from smaller countries and not the former U.S.S.R. the USA wants to be able to get in to smaller ports. Also the bigger ships make bigger targets. Take out one big ship and you can do heavy damage to the fleet.

Guess we'd have to know more about the "integrated undersea warfare" depicted in the drawing, to draw conclusions...

The Navy is always the last to get upgrades...

Interesting find...

Those pics look pretty cool. It reminds me of civil war era ships. Virtually everything but the gun turrets were underwater.

We are making a grave mistake, the great war against the Red Dragon is still to come.

Yeah the moniter style ships were sucesful for that time.
But that style of ship cant take to any dirrect hits. but it is not as prone to them.

Thats stealthship thing isnt that new, we already have it here in sweden. The ship called "Visby" i htink, has already been shown for the people including tourists sincs the put the ship in the middle of Stockholm earlier this year. Diont have a link but the ships name is "Visby" and the ship type is called "Smyge".

The way forward is Arsenal ships

Large ships with <50 crew members with over 500 cruise missiles and a varied selection of other weapons systems which would make it highly automated and lethal.

An Overview:
Armaments: 500-cell Vertical Launch System (VLS), employing conventional Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAMs); possibly additional weapons systems (like a variant of the Army Tactical Missile System).
Crew: Zero to 50; designed to be highly automated; ship could be controlled from remote locations.
Design: Low radar signature ("stealthy"); double hull; possible size of 500-800 feet.
Estimated Number, Cost: Six vessels, $550 Million each (500 Tomahawk missiles will cost approximately an additional $400 Million).
Production Time: Five years (first arsenal ship will be operational in 2001).

What are future aircraft carriers going to be like?

Originally posted by adcadcadc

What are future aircraft carriers going to be like?

Will there be any use of them when missiles are getting better and better? Will there be any need for fighter jets if you can launch a missile to down an enemy plane? I doubt it!

The next generation carriers(CN-X) will not be much different that todays. They will have electromagnetic aircraft launchers though.

US is totally remvamping its defence force then.

F22, JSF come in at 2011,
So does these new ships.
And so will laser weapons etc.

hmmmmm, what they getting ready for?

Originally posted by Kalistenics
US is totally remvamping its defence force then.

F22, JSF come in at 2011,
So does these new ships.
And so will laser weapons etc.

hmmmmm, what they getting ready for?

If we told ya we would have to kill ya

I was wondering if the Navy had anything remote operated in the works. The Air Force has the Predator and such...

Isn't it obvious what is going on?

they are trying to widen the gap between themselves and everyone else.