Three Quarters of which are Tugboats............
But...soviet ones! one of soviet tugboat could take on American carrier group,RIGHT?Three Quarters of which are Tugboats............
If loaded with a 5+ Mton fusion bomb and in range, sure.But...soviet ones! one of soviet tugboat could take on American carrier group,RIGHT?
They Found the Samuel B Roberts, and she looks to be the deepest shipwreck ever recorded.
Luna is 1.3 light-seconds away and one of our solar system's gravitational bullies. She's 2/9 the size of Mercury and vastly out-masses the asteroid belt.I was just about to ask what that was in moon-landing units.
Wrong the Forest Sherman Class and the Charles F Adams class are the Grandmothers of both the Spruance and the Ticonderogas. The Spruance and Ticonderoga's are sister classes. Both have their origins in the late 60s.I was thinking about Ticonderoga and Spruance earlier ...
Spruance is basically Ticonderoga's grandmother. When Spruance was comissioned a few congresscritters loudly said that they thought that she was a very expensive underarmed waste of money.
When 8 Harpoon missile canisters were bolted to Spruance's deck during a refit she became capable of saying "bring it" to battleships with an expectation that she'd win despite having no armour and a main battery of only two 5" guns.
Spruance was the first American warship with gas turbines and she flew a yellow "caution, jet exhaust" warning flag when she pulled away from a supply ship.
Ticonderogas and Spruances have the same hull shape, as do the Kidds (Kee Lungs if you're Taiwanese).Wrong the Forest Sherman Class and the Charles F Adams class are the Grandmothers of both the Spruance and the Ticonderogas. The Spruance and Ticonderoga's are sister classes. Both have their origins in the late 60s.
Fixed.Ticonderogas and Spruances have the same hull shape, as do the Ayatollah Class (Kee Lungs if you're Taiwanese).
Ticos and Kidds are roughly 1600 tons heavier than Spruances.
They're enormous for their day 8,000+ ton destroyers which could go from all stop and drifting with the powerplant shut down to "all ahead flank" and 32+ knots in about, oh I don't know, less than two minutes.Fixed.
Spru-Cans with the VLS cells and the hangar upgrade are not that light. They are heavy ships.
The true top speed of a Spru Can is much faster than 32+ Knots. Think just over 40 knots. Only the Officers, Senior Enlisted, ESWS pin owners and Snipes know this fact.They're enormous for their day 8,000+ ton destroyers which could go from all stop and drifting with the powerplant shut down to "all ahead flank" and 32+ knots in about, oh I don't know, less than two minutes.
A Tico or a Kidd is clumbsy and awkard to handle when compared to a Spruance. A Tico Captain can pull off an emergency 35+ knot 180° U-turn that most other Captains wouldn't even consider attempting.The true top speed of a Spru Can is much faster than 32+ Knots. Think just over 40 knots. Only the Officers, Senior Enlisted, ESWS pin owners and Snipes know this fact.
He is also very wrong. At 36kts a Spru-can's very expensive gas turbines start melting.Sailor knows his Navy
You do know what he did in the Navy right?He is also very wrong. At 36kts a Spru-can's very expensive gas turbines start melting.
He's not an engineer, and you aren't one either.You do know what he did in the Navy right?