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Ship Photo of the Day

Llarry said:
The USN needs two or three ships to serve as flagships for numbered fleet commands. I'm not aware of any plan to replace these two ancient LCCs. Maybe a modified LPD?
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I read that these ships are supposed to go to the late 2030’s, but a modified LPD might be a good choice.

USS Midway CV-41 (now a magnificent museum in San Diego) is a great example of how a ship can be modified and updated to handle new technology. Commissioned at the end of WW2 in 1945 with Helldivers and Corsairs, she served through the Gulf War finally being decommissioned in 1992 handling Hornets and Tomcats. During that time she went from a straight deck carrier of 45,000 tons to a catapult equipped angled deck carrier of 65,000 tons.

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With reports of China now building up to 9 carriers and thus the need to maximize our nuclear carriers in the Pacific, could the big America class gators undergo a similar upgrade to handle other theaters with either tailhook manned aircraft or drones?

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USS Midway steaming off the Firth of Clyde in September 1952.

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Midway en route to Southeast Asia in April 1972

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Midway departing Yokosuka for the last time in August 1991
 
Was watching the Bond movie “The Spy Who Loved Me” and was curious about the oil tanker that swallowed the submarines. In real life it was the Liparus, one of 6 nearly identical tankers built in Denmark for Shell. The tanker is nearly 1,000 ft long but a model ship for the movie was about 65 ft long.

The story behind it:

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And although the Roger Moore movies were not my favorite, the opening sequence of The Spy Who Loved Me is iconic.

 
jmcquate said:
No Tomcats. I think it was because the JBDs weren't wide enough for F-14s, although one did trap, and had to be craned off.
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Thanks for the correction.

The battleship USS Texas BB-35 is undergoing a major restoration. As the last surviving dreadnought in the world, really looking forward to visiting it one day.
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Battleship Texas Foundation

The most powerful weapon in the world in 1914 - Battleship Texas was on the front line of innovations in gunnery, aviation, and radar throughout her career. A veteran of both World Wars, today she is the world's last surviving Dreadnought. Over her 34 year career she was home to tens of...
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USS Ticonderoga CG-47 is the lead ship of a class of 27 cruisers. Originally designed as a guided missile destroyer DDG (sharing the same hull as the Spruance class destroyer) it was so capable that it was reclassified as a guided missile cruiser CG. (This might explain its torpedo armament as US cruisers traditionally did not carry torpedoes.). Of the 27 ships constructed, 7 remain on active duty and 15 are in the reserve fleet (one of the few warships in the reserve fleet) with remaining 5 either scrapped or sunk as targets. Unfortunately, the Navy’s multiple attempts at a successor have failed leaving this ships to continue on, one reason being they have the largest VLS capacity (122 cells) of any US ship.

Length: 567ft, Beam: only 55 ft, Displacement: 9,800 tons (China’s Type 055 destroyer displaces up to 13,000 tons)

Powerplant: 4 LM2500 gas turbines are capable of 32.5 knots with a range of only 6,000 nautical miles at 20 knots.

Armor: limited Kevlar splinter protection.

Armament: (later models) up to 122 VLS cells, 8 Harpoon missiles, 6 torpedo launchers, 2 5”/62 caliber cannons, 2 25 mm Bushmaster auto cannons, 2 20mm CIWS.

Commissioned on 23 Jan 1983, decommissioned on 30 Sep 2004. ((Ticonderoga’s keel was laid on 21 Jan 1980, the 35 anniversary of the kamikaze strike on the Essex class carrier USS Ticonderoga CV-14)

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The Ticos also had a weird roll pattern. It would roll very slow, but when it hit what you thought was the apex of the roll, it would then lurch another 1/2 degree more into the roll, then start coming back. Most noticeable (at least to me) in the head because of the sound of the stall doors working against their stops and also while trying to dodge the shower curtain when it would come towards you.

It wasn't just me...I did an underway with one of my 2Ps after we got back from deployment on a FFG, and she was making comments about how "lurchy" it was too.
 
Gatordev said:
The Ticos also had a weird roll pattern. It would roll very slow, but when it hit what you thought was the apex of the roll, it would then lurch another 1/2 degree more into the roll, then start coming back. Most noticeable (at least to me) in the head because of the sound of the stall doors working against their stops and also while trying to dodge the shower curtain when it would come towards you.

It wasn't just me...I did an underway with one of my 2Ps after we got back from deployment on a FFG, and she was making comments about how "lurchy" it was too.
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Definitely saw this. Was eye level with a garbage can that went flying down an athwartship pway while I came out of the head one evening. Also made the treadmill sporty.
 
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