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Zumwalt Class Destroyer

Model : DMS-DTR-01
Manufacturer : Darvenstein Military Shipyard
Displacement : 9699.90 metric tonnes
Length : 64 Blocks
Height : 20 Blocks
Width : 10 Blocks
Top Speed : 46 Knots
Role : Long-Range Bombardment; Anti-Ship; Anti-Air;

The design of this sleek looking destroyer was found on the property that we acquired when recovering the Abrams artifact, discovered between a mess of ancient newspaper clippings. The moment Roth laid eyes on this design, he knew we had to build this ancient ship and approached his colleague Higgins to co-supervise this massive project. We approached Hawkeye to construct the main hull, and electronic systems, then we reached out to GeoCorp for their mega reactor batteries, and Better Future for the peripherals. Finally we contacted Darvenstein Military Shipyard for their distinct looking armor plates, and Darvin, the Director of DMS immediately offered us partnership for this ship design, in addition to the grant we received from Earth's Classical History Reenactment Project (ECHRP)

Because of the sheer size and armaments present on this ship, this particular model will not be available to the general public, instead it was constructed in a collaboration with DMS, to serve in Nova Spaceborn Navy. Of course what we didn't gain from Ancient Collector's Auction House (ACAH) has been compensated well by DMS as shipyard specialized in military vessels. The Zumwalt is equipped with two retractable gatling lasers mounted on the bow, several arrays of vertical launch systems for ballistic missiles distributed in the hull. This distribution is believed to compartmentalize battle damage if these ballistic missiles are damaged, so they won't detonate other missiles in a chain reaction. The distinct looking deckhouse is made possible by using Adaptive Armor Plates courtesy of DMS. This ship also has a large flight deck on the rear, even bigger than a Heywood class frigate. This flight deck can be used to accommodate helicopters and other kinds of VTOL aircraft

Addendum 1 (by Diane Krueger) : "The shape of this ship is very peculiar, compared to the other ship designs that I study from this era. It's pretty impressive to see how far they go to make the ship as continuous as possible, is there another angle that we're not seeing here? Is it aerodynamics? Or simply aesthetics? Perhaps some ancient naval technology or doctrine that was lost to the passage of time? Although I have read about some kind of radar absorbing techniques that requires this ship to be as continuous as possible, but for a ship this size, surely it's not possible... is it?"

Addendum 2 (by Stuart Clint) : "Looking sharp as heck, I dig it"