PLA Admiral: China can destroy Zumwalt-class destroyer by fishing boats



2012-05-03 (China Military News cited from washingtontimes.com and by Miles Yu) -- The Navys next-generation warship, the 15,000-ton Zumwalt-class destroyer, is no good and can be destroyed by Chinese fishing boats armed with explosives, according to a leading Chinese military commentator, Peoples Liberation Army Rear Adm. Zhang Zhaozhong.
Adm. Zhang made the remarks April 30 during a nationwide broadcast of Defense Review Weekly, a program on state-run China Central TV. The admiral has been the stations chief military commentator since 1998.

Zhang Zhaozhong
Zumwalt-class destroyers are one of the Navys newest, most-advanced and most-expensive vessels. They have a rich history of budgetary and technological debates.
Ultimately, the destroyers survived several Washington budget cuts. Three of them are under construction at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine; the lead ship, USS Elmo Zumwalt DDG-1000, named for former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., is scheduled to be completed a year from now.
The new destroyer will play a significant role in what the Navy calls its mace weapons that are part of the new American military strategy in the Asia-Pacific, especially China.
The strategy will focus on land-attack capabilities in littoral battles. It will use some of the most-advanced technologies and weapons innovations, including a revolutionary stealth design that reduces radar and sonar signatures to the lowest level of any destroyers in the world.
It includes the Adv! anced Gu n System featuring a high-tech electronic rail gun that is battery powered using electromagnetic pulse, and a Peripheral Vertical Launch System that will significantly reduce the damage of a missile battery explosion.
China pays close attention to Navy weapons development as Beijing regards American naval power as the most significant and most tangible military threat to its regional and global ambitions.

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