And here is your newest Class of Naval Warships.....

[Detroit Stylin]

....presenting the Aegis Class USS Detroit. The Navy's most advanced warship in its fleet. The sixth warship in the Navy named after the D, and Detroit having the distinction of being the only city to have more than two ships named after it.

[mtburb]

I went to the downtown riverfront today expecting it to show up. Unfortunately, it never did by the time I left.

[archfan]

....presenting the Aegis Class USS Detroit. The Navy's most advanced warship in its fleet. The sixth warship in the Navy named after the D, and Detroit having the distinction of being the only city to have more than two ships named after it.

Great info and photo, but one small correction. There are multiple cities that have had more than two Navy ships named after them. Some of them - Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia - have had just as many ships named after them as Detroit. Thanks for posting - I can't wait to see it!

[ABetterDetroit]

Saw her last night. She is one bad ass fighting machine. I asked the sentry how fast she is and his reply was "fast". According to Wikipedia that "fast" is 52 MPH. It must be quite a sight to see something that big doing 50 on the water.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Detroit_[[LCS-7)

[KJ5]

$400 million for this thing and we can't even provide safe water to the people of Flint

[canuck]

$400 million for this thing and we can't even provide safe water to the people of Flint

Maybe it's the waterways' way of saying they have a right to carry...
Carry on.

[Ray1936]

$400 million for this thing and we can't even provide safe water to the people of Flint

This old time right-wing conservative has to sigh, and say, "You're quite right.". Sigh again.

[KJ5]

This old time right-wing conservative has to sigh, and say, "You're quite right.". Sigh again.

It really is a year for strange bedfellows, Ray. We need to find the alternate universe where Bernie is running against Ted Cruz so we can be enemies like we're supposed to be.

[Bigdd]

$400 million for this thing and we can't even provide safe water to the people of Flint

No trillionaires in Flint

Probably not even any billionaires.

[EastsideAl]

$400 million for this thing and we can't even provide safe water to the people of Flint

A big thumbs up. I'm sure it's an impressive piece of technology. But how sad that a struggling place like the City of Detroit gets the dubious "gift" of having the feds name a killing machine after it built for hundreds of millions of dollars, but can't manage to get enough federal funding for help with basic infrastructure, or the problems of its citizens who are unemployed and poor well beyond the national averages.

[archfan]

Saw her last night. She is one bad ass fighting machine. I asked the sentry how fast she is and his reply was "fast". According to Wikipedia that "fast" is 52 MPH. It must be quite a sight to see something that big doing 50 on the water

A demo of full speed down the Detroit River would be awesome, but I doubt it will happen.

[Zacha341]

Full speed ahead----! Don't expect a blunt fiscal behavior change just 'cause dems are in charge next! No evidence so far has shown such.

Noting the president and Mrs. Clinton's piloting the political straights regarding their perspective on Russia's stabilization influence and Syria, etc. we may need the thing!

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/15/opinio...affair-ghitis/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37666240

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...come-President

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...a-score-polit/

$400 million for this thing and we can't even provide safe water to the people of Flint

[Zacha341]

Click here for info on the USS Detroit and the commissioning October 22nd!

[Wesley Mouch]

$400 million for this thing and we can't even provide safe water to the people of Flint

What do these things have to do with each other? Funding Flint would have had zero change on EPA, Lansing, and Flint's actions. Flint was a failure of our system, not a funding problem.

Money spent on defense [[or anything else like, say, pensions) is not wasted, but is part of an appropriate budget that accomplishes a wide set of goals. You may disagree with military spending, if you don't mind lawlessness on the seas, but to suggest that more money sent to Lansing would have solved this problem is like thinking that more money to DPS solves education.

[Honky Tonk]

Full speed ahead----! Don't expect a blunt fiscal behavior change just cause dems are in charge next! No evidence so far has shown such.

Noting the president and Mrs. Clinton's piloting the political straights regarding their perspective on Russia's stabilization influence and Syria, etc. we may need the thing!

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/15/opinio...affair-ghitis/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37666240

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...come-President

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...a-score-polit/

+5........

[RaumVogel]

Saw her last night. She is one bad ass fighting machine. I asked the sentry how fast she is and his reply was "fast". According to Wikipedia that "fast" is 52 MPH. It must be quite a sight to see something that big doing 50 on the water.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Detroit_[[LCS-7)

Wait,that say the christening isn't until the 18th.But they already have a picture of it?

I think they ment "USS Detroit during launch" not christening.

[archfan]

Wait,that say the christening isn't until the 18th.But they already have a picture of it?

I think they ment "USS Detroit during launch" not christening.

Christening and launch were the same day, October 18th, 2014 [[https://youtu.be/-WPE_4bqQXc). Commissioning is October 22, 2016.

[Wesley Mouch]

+5........

Ha!

And the 'Republican' Trump would probably let is stay in the Detroit River to guard us against Canada and their 25,000 Syrians!

[Honky Tonk]

Ha!

And the 'Republican' Trump would probably let is stay in the Detroit River to guard us against Canada and their 25,000 Syrians!

Well, @ least he'd try to protect us, and not sell us out to the Bengahzi.