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Zing Zing Zingbah

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6. There usually are a fair amount of issues with the first ship of a brand new class.

Reply to itsrobert (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 10:13 AM

Dec 2016

You are talking about the Zumwalt that is the first of its kind. It is a bit experimental. They work out the kinks with the first one and learn from it and incorporate the fixes into the design for any new ships of that class going forward.

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