USN now smallest since before WW1.

[Dis]

this isn't a new ship, but I couldn't resist posting pictures of ships.

I love navy ships





compare a new ship like that, to my old pos

[Az]

Wow, I never knew the Carrier had a double hull.

[Dis]

here's the location of my old ship. : 031° 14' 22.0" North, 071° 16' 35.0" West Depth: 1166 fathoms

yup, fathoms means it's currently underwater

[GhengisFarb™]

Originally posted by Dissident
yup, fathoms means it's currently underwater

Apparently it didn't have two hulls....

It only thought it did.............................

[GhengisFarb™]

Re: Re: Re: USN now smallest since before WW1.

Originally posted by Dissident
thems fightin' words. prepare to duel

Bring it on fish boy.

Ehhh, wait a second, I want to know what your choice of "weapons" is first............................

[Sarxis]

Navy ships rock!

But this doesn't bother me. I'd rather have 5 modern day ACs with full compliment of aircraft opposed to all the ships of the WWII era.

[Ted Striker]

Now who can find me that very famous picture of the US Pacific fleet where there are literally like 4 aircraft carriers lined up in a row in a big convoy.

Best Navy photograph EVER

[Ted Striker]

Hey, I didn't know the Navy was integrated in WW2?

And look at the delts on that guy in the front!

[Verto]

The guy must be 50...

[Dis]

well it wasn't reasonable to expect there to be all black ships. Though I once heard talk of having an all women submarine . That one would get lost somewhere in the artic- because you can't ask for directions under the polar ice caps.

I'm not exactly sure how integrated the navy was. I'm sure they just had separate berthing compartments. Other than that, I can't see the navy being segregated that much.

[Kirnwaffen]

If I recall correctly, the Navy has almost always been "integrated". Much of the navy during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 was composed of free blacks.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Hey, I didn't know the Navy was integrated in WW2?

For the most part, it wasn't. Cooks, stewards, colliers, and that was about all the rates open to "coloreds" who had segregated quarters to the extent practicable.

However, everyone had a damage control party and fire control party assignment, and later in the war, some other basic enlisted rates opened up for black sailors.

[Cruddy]

Hmm... no mention of the largest US aircraft carrier... the UK.

Not that there's a lot of facilities for US ships (nuke subs have a station I think). But as an off-Europe aircraft carrier it makes any nuke powered carrier seem small.

Of course, the running costs are higher!

[CerberusIV]

The issue I see in this is not a temporary reduction in the number of combatant warships, which can be reversed, but whether the logistic capability is affected.

As warships get more capable and expensive there will inevitably be fewer of them. Not necessarily a problem as the capability of likely threats has declined, if anything, over the last decade.

What has always marked the USN out, ever since the Pacific campaign of WWII, has been its ability to supply a fleet almost anywhere. If the logistics ships - oilers, ammunition, etc. - are being reduced then that could be very bad news. Future budgets could be spent on combatant vessels rather than logistics and the USN capability to keep ships on station reduced.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Cruddy
Hmm... no mention of the largest US aircraft carrier... the UK.

Not that there's a lot of facilities for US ships (nuke subs have a station I think). But as an off-Europe aircraft carrier it makes any nuke powered carrier seem small.

Of course, the running costs are higher!

Wasn't the UK named "Airbase #10" in 1984 ?