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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by desdiv on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:54PM (#12897766)
>Zumwalt's more of a technology demonstrator.

The navy originally planed 32 ships, so it was definitely not intended to be a demonstrator.

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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by defap on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:43AM (#12897967)
Pretty sure the parent was talking about USS Zumwalt specifically, not the Zumwalt class as a whole. It's not unreasonable to consider the first hull a demonstrator at this point. There'd be countless improvements made as the class design matured over the course of a 32 hull production run.
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