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Ship Photo of the Day

Renegade One

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Best guess is they're visual landing aids. Both ships were equipped with forward arresting gear for foul deck recoveries...
And others even later, apparently. May be a repost, but Essex Class carriers could steam 20 knots in reverse and had arrestor wires on the forward flight deck. Here, a Grumman Avenger lands on over the bow, while Yorktown steams in reverse in the summer of 1943 in the protected confines Gulf of Paria (between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) during her shakedown cruise.

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Randy Daytona

Cold War Relic
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The same. It still couldn't hide from airborne radar.

Was airborne radar good enough back then to detect a snorkel?

From Ivan: the 28,000 tone Kirov class battlecruiser. The only one of the four still in service (according to Wikipedia) is Pyotr Velikiy (Peter the Great) - the names of these ships have been changed: Pyotr Velikiy was formerly known as Yuriy Andropov (General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union after Brezhnev)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov-class_battlecruiser

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The aft sections of Kirov (left) and Frunze (right) showing differences in weapons fit - Kirov has a pair of single 100mm guns, and two pairs of AK-630 CIWS mounts either side of the flight deck, whereas Frunze has a twin 130mm turret and eight SA-N-9 VLS in place of the CIWS mounts.
 

Randy Daytona

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Winner of The Great Steamboat Race of 1870 from New Orleans to St Louis between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez (which had the misfortune of being delayed by fog.)

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Randy Daytona

Cold War Relic
pilot
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Randy Daytona

Cold War Relic
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Super Moderator
ARA Independence (V-1) Argentina's first aircraft carrier. Formerly a British Colossus Class light carrier, was sold to Argentina. Notice some of the aircraft operating from it - decommissioned in 1971.

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While still in UK colors, on station for an H-bomb test in 1957.
 
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