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Most Expensive US-UK Warships Ever Built Lay “Dead In Water” Due To China “Chip Destroyer”By Sorcha Faal

An astonishing Ministry of Defense (MoD) “urgent action” bulletin circulating in the Kremlin today is reporting that two of the West’s most expensive warships ever built now lay “dead in the water” after their propulsion systems were shut down by Chinese manufactured microchips that Federation military intelligence experts are still at a loss to explain why the United States and Britain even let these sabotaging electronic devices to have been used by their navies in the first place.

USS Zumwalt, the most expensive US warship ever built

HMS Duncan, the most expensive British warship ever built.

According to this MoD bulletin, the United States Navy’s (US Navy) $4.4 billion guided missile destroyer USS Zumwalt, while transversing the Panama Canal, suffered a catastrophic propulsion failure on 21 November; while just two days later, on 23 November, the British Royal Navy’s (Royal Navy) $1.2 billion hi-tech destroyer HMS Duncan, likewise, suffered a catastrophic propulsion failure too while on NATO maneuvers.
To the commonality of both the United States and Britain’s most expensive warships ever built suffering such a catastrophic loss of propulsion, MoD experts in this bulletin point out, is directly due to what are called Chinese “chip destroyers”—which this bulletin explains are a type of microchip manufactured by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) that shortly after Obama took power in the United States the US Navy was forced to buy by the tens-of-thousands.

Equally as astonishing as the US Navy using these Chinese “chip destroyers” in their warships, missile and communication systems, this bulletin further notes, was its purchase and use of Chinese dry docks at the Bath Iron Works shipyard where the USS Zumwalt was built—and that just two months ago (September) their experts were astonishingly in China looking to buy more of.
With these Chinese “chip destroyers” literally flooding into everything the US Navy and Pentagon has built over the past decade, this bulletin continues, a cooperation agreement signed in 2014 between the US Navy and Royal Navy have further allowed these dangerous devices to be placed in Britain’s warships, weapons and communication systems too.
MoD experts first hand knowledge of these Chinese “chip destroyers”, this bulletin continues, was gained during the Federations “experience/ordeal” with France in the Russian Navy’s planned 2009 purchase of two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships that were filled with them—but whose sale to Russia was aborted in 2015 when the Federation said it wouldn’t take them—after which they were sold by France to Egypt and delivered in September, but with Polish Minister of National Defense Antoni Macierewicz, on 4 November, stating that Egypt then sold them back to Russia for €1.
Most amazing to note in this MoD bulletin’s conclusion though is the discussion relating to how these Chinese “chip destroyed” Western warships should be treated in “conflict/war” situations—with some Federation naval experts advocating that “ships in distress” should never be fired upon, but others arguing that even though these warships may be “dead in the water”, their weapons systems still pose a “serious/grave” threat and should be sunk.

China's Type 055 Warship vs. America's Stealth Zumwalt-Class Destroyer: Who Wins?

By David Axe

On Oct. 15, 2016 in Baltimore on the U.S. East Coast, the U.S. Navy commissioned the guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt into service following a protracted and costly development.
Six hundred feet long and displacing 14,500 tons, Zumwalt — the first of three stealthy land-attack destroyers — is America’s largest surface combatant in generations.
But she’s not alone in her weight class. 

While the Americans were celebrating Zumwalt’s entry into service, on the other side of the world at a shipyard in Shanghai, the Chinese navy was hard at work on its own 14,000-ton-displacement surface warship.
The Type 055 just began major construction and probably won’t enter service before 2018. 

But when she does, she could be the biggest and most powerful surface warship in Asia.
It’s unclear exactly what the Type 055 will do, but indications are that she’ll function as the main air-defense escort for China’s new domestically-built aircraft carrier, currently under construction at Dalian in northern China.
Consider the Type 055’s superstructure facets, apparently meant to support radar emitters similar to the SPY-1 emitters that are part of the U.S. Navy’s Aegis air-defense system. 

U.S. Navy flattops never go anywhere without at least one Aegis-equipped cruiser and several Aegis destroyers as escorts. 

Zumwalt, notably, is the first new major American surface combatant class in 30 years not to have Aegis.
The Type 055 likely won’t be a direct competitor of Zumwalt. 

Rather than integrating Zumwalt and her two sisters into carrier battle groups, the U.S. Navy will probably deploy the giant destroyers on solo cruises near land in order to take advantage of the vessels’ radar-evading hull-form and their twin, 155-millimeter guns, which can fire projectiles a distance of at least 80 miles in order to support amphibious landings and special operations.

Zumwalt’s designers traded missile capacity for durability. 

The Type 055’s originators stuck to traditional design principles, maximizing firepower at the cost of damage-resistance.
In many ways, the Type 055 is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. 

Largely conventional in form and function, the Type 055’s major innovation is, simply put, her size.
Zumwalt, on the other hand, pushes the boundaries of warship-design and could potentially open up new operational concepts. 

Not since the age of the battleship have navies deployed large warships close to enemy shores for the purposes of bombarding targets on land. 

Radars and guided missiles made the mission too dangerous for today’s flimsy, easy-to-detect surface combatants.
The Type 055 will probably do for China what the Aegis cruisers and destroyers — nearly 100 of them — are already doing for the United States. 

That is, protecting the carriers. 

Zumwalt, however, could make near-shore fire support possible again — a feat the Type 055 surely can’t duplicate.
It could turn out that sheer size is the only meaningful characteristic America and China’s respective 14,000-ton surface warships have in common.