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    ID this warship please



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    IJN copy of the Monitor ?

    Recently discovered Japanese Navy version of the the Monitor ?

    Awesome looking in black paint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cr9527 View Post
    http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/DDGX-1.jpg

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    Looks like a artist's impression...and the file name "DDGX-1" identifies the intended subject: The future guided-missile destroyer program of the United States Navy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TopHatter View Post
    Looks like a artist's impression...and the file name "DDGX-1" identifies the intended subject: The future guided-missile destroyer program of the United States Navy.
    That looks like a legitimate photo to me, far too much detail for CGI, or painting.
    I was suspecting the Zumwalt too, but i hear that has only began construction.

    I don't know, maybe it is indeed an artist's impression, but it just seem... too real!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cr9527 View Post
    That looks like a legitimate photo to me, far too much detail for CGI, or painting.
    I was suspecting the Zumwalt too, but i hear that has only began construction.

    I don't know, maybe it is indeed an artist's impression, but it just seem... too real!
    That bow is what gives it away immediately. No such warship exists, except on paper. And a warship of that size would be very well known amongst even the amateur naval enthusiast community

    Note, that Phalanx CIWS aft betrays it as American-designed or at least Western/Western-allied.

    And CGI and paintings are more than capable of showing that kind of realism, especially in a still photograph.

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    The photo is very realistic. Lack of detail would be a critcal factor in obtaining Stealth. Totally flat surfaces inclined at least 15 degrees off level is a "simple" way of DEflecting RADAR rather than REflecitng it back.

    As for the bow, that's logical (though not very sea kindliness) as a standard bow stem would deflect RADAR beams down to the bow spray and then back to the sender.
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    looking at it, there's a Japanese Rising Sun on the fan tail..

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    Isn't the Zumwalt supposed to have two AGS turrets?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dundonrl View Post
    looking at it, there's a Japanese Rising Sun on the fan tail..
    Thought that's what it was.

    Note the CIWS and SH-60 as well, both JMSDF mainstays.

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    Clarify....

    Quote Originally Posted by connaye View Post
    Recently discovered Japanese Navy version of the the Monitor ?
    Reading the posts, does this black painted monitor actually travel the sea of Japan?

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    I'm willing to bet that its an artist's concept of a future Zumwalt-based DDG or possible CG for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, nobody has tumblehome bows on captial ships yet.
    You know JJ, Him could do it....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rumrunner View Post
    I'm willing to bet that its an artist's concept of a future Zumwalt-based DDG or possible CG for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, nobody has tumblehome bows on captial ships yet.
    I'd hope not, since there are very few "capital" ships in the world.. the US has less than a dozen of them (Aircraft carriers) not sure what the rest of the world has, but probably less than two dozen combined..

    destroyers and cruisers are definitley NOT capital ships..

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    I'm surprised this is not a Chinese warship. After all, Photoshop is the most prolific arms exporter for the PLA.
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    Actually, we have more then a dozen if we were to include the "fossils" capital ships now days outside the American CVN's are your nuclear deterent submarine force. Atleast here in the US they now own capital ship (state) names that once belonged to the most beautiful ships ever created.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by gunnut View Post
    I'm surprised this is not a Chinese warship. After all, Photoshop is the most prolific arms exporter for the PLA.
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