And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The Ticonderogas are slated for retirement, ships with their capabilities are not yet available.
The Tikes carry a lot of missiles in VLS, but they, and all modern warships, have essentially no armor. Considering what an open boat did to the Cole, the survivability of modern warships is highly doubtful.
The President has expressed those same doubts. He's mentioned bringing back Battleships. Interestingly, last year they dry docked the New Jersey and did a bunch of repairs.
I made a field service trip to San Pedro, CA, to install a pair of power-operated hatches over Vincennes' (CG-49) ammo elevators. She had already been out on sea trials but was brought back to dry-dock to have more lead installed in her keel. Too much topside weight. Note the big octagonal panels on the front and the port side. There are two more, aft and on the starboard side. They are part of the phased-array radar system. (With those, the emitted radar beam can be electronically steered, so you don't need a rotating antenna. Given the need to have large mounting surfaces for those panels, I wonder if that drove - at least partly - the tall superstructure.) I spent six weeks as a midshipman aboard an old destroyer (Epperson, DD-719) , with four 600-psi steam boilers and turbines, and I thought the fire-rooms and engine-rooms were congested. But as I passed an open hatch serving the the Vincennes power plant . . . You probably have no idea how much ducting there must be for gas-turbine main propulsion. Incredible bulk!
Yes, I know why, but like the latest RN efforts, ugly doesn't do it justice.
ReplyDeleteOne dinky little gun….they better have something to fight off a drone swarm. That 5” peashooter is not going to do it.
ReplyDeleteThere is another 5 in. gun, out of sight, aft of the flight deck and two Phalanx CIWS, one per side.
DeleteHate to say it but it's the ocean going version of the Obama Chicago monstrosity.
ReplyDeleteGood description of the Kenyan-born muslim's (small "m" intended) monument
DeleteThat’s not a nice way to talk about your father
DeleteDUDE: The Kenyan-born muslim is 64 years old, he is 15 years younger than me.
DeleteOh wait! You mean when I had an encounter with an African gorilla in Kenya, then the idiot might be my son.
DeleteUSS Normandy CG 60.
ReplyDeleteThe Ticonderogas are slated for retirement, ships with their capabilities are not yet available.
The Tikes carry a lot of missiles in VLS, but they, and all modern warships, have essentially no armor. Considering what an open boat did to the Cole, the survivability of modern warships is highly doubtful.
The President has expressed those same doubts. He's mentioned bringing back Battleships. Interestingly, last year they dry docked the New Jersey and did a bunch of repairs.
DeleteWouldn't care to be in that top-heavy wind catcher in a gale.
ReplyDeleteThat's ugly, ships should be graceful & look good ...I'd like to think we can do the modern stuff without it being ugly.
ReplyDeleteLooks a little better from the side:
Deletehttps://www.seaforces.org/usnships/cg/CG-60_DAT/CG-60-USS-Normandy-162.jpg
This COULD be AI--------
DeleteThey did much better with the DDG version because as they said above, the Ticos were really ugly looking ships even before they bolted on things.
ReplyDeleteI love the KIDD class.
DeleteCommissioned 9 December 1989
ReplyDeleteDecommissioned 25 September 2025
High windage, low freeboard, a puke queen guaranteed!
ReplyDeleteI made a field service trip to San Pedro, CA, to install a pair of power-operated hatches over Vincennes' (CG-49) ammo elevators. She had already been out on sea trials but was brought back to dry-dock to have more lead installed in her keel. Too much topside weight. Note the big octagonal panels on the front and the port side. There are two more, aft and on the starboard side. They are part of the phased-array radar system. (With those, the emitted radar beam can be electronically steered, so you don't need a rotating antenna. Given the need to have large mounting surfaces for those panels, I wonder if that drove - at least partly - the tall superstructure.)
ReplyDeleteI spent six weeks as a midshipman aboard an old destroyer (Epperson, DD-719) , with four 600-psi steam boilers and turbines, and I thought the fire-rooms and engine-rooms were congested. But as I passed an open hatch serving the the Vincennes power plant . . . You probably have no idea how much ducting there must be for gas-turbine main propulsion. Incredible bulk!