In what looks like a warship made out of a giant sheet of folded paper, the Zumwalt class destroyer is meant to be the most advanced warship in existence. This all stemmed from a design edict that insisted on off the shelf parts, which meant using an F-16's radar system which had difficulty sorting out the sky from the ground. In other tests, it managed to assign a latrine exhaust vent as a higher priority target than a flying drone. So hard in fact that in a scene out of a military comedy during a demonstration the targeting system decided that the grandstands were a target and aimed its guns at it sending onlookers scrambling. Once it did catch up, it had a hard time determining targets. Unfortunately, the M247 could not keep up with the tanks it was meant to protect. The craft was meant to provide anti-aircraft support to tank crews. This was perhaps a more fitting a source for the title. Dick Sergeant and Dick York also both played Darrin on Bewitched. Sergeant York was a decorated World War I hero come World War II propaganda figure who single-handedly captured over 100 German soldiers and was the subject of a 'why we fight' movie named after him.
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