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And basically from a political group that needs to be bribed to support their own armed forces instead of doing it out of actual patriotism or practicality.

That could be potentially problematic, of all the live ammo in her deep charges are the most dangerous both because they have the greater proportion of explosives and because depending on which part corrodes first if the safeties rot then deep charges were designed to blow up at an specific dept...

There is a marked difference between tactical knowledge (the heavier the artillery, the better) and technical (heavy artillery is too heavy for this ship), when acting outside their specific knowledge base suggestions should be done in a question format. "Can we increase the size of our ships...

And that's why politicians shouldn't dictate the technical parameters of an engineering proyect without at least a certain amount of self-awareness of their own limitations in practical knowledge.

But for many practical and enviromental reasons (active sonar + fish = sushi) ships don't go active without an actual threat. A diesel sub with good intel on a target can creep its way towards an expected route of a naval task force, go silent for a day or so and when it hears the ship coming...

Yeah, but she had an important refit a few years ago and thankfully the reactor was not the damaged section.

If she's lucky she might be modernized in the deal, not that is actually necessary at this point of her operational life.

Probably the optimists during Crossroads wanted to see if the torpedoes were detonated by the nukes, and the realists who were aware that they wouldn't hold the monopoly in atomic bombs were more interested in knowing if after the tests the guns and the stored munitions were still usable or if a...

And its also useful for smaller explosions way closer to the hull, like for example if the carrier manages to trigger a magnetic detonator in an errant naval mine or if one of the carriers own planes suffer an accident and detonates its payload too close to the ship. Plus the full check of...

The crew is too busy thanking god for their survival to feel humiliated. The officer in charge of the maintenance of the missile system on the other hand is busy hiding from the rest of the sailors who are going to give him the mother of all blanket parties as soon as they change their soiled...

A post-war light show or the night after the Great Turkey Shot?

That D-240 looks shallow and unstable as hell, one good wave and that radar dish would have to be used as a rudder.

Being fair the damages Yorktown and Hornet took were worse, much worse than Enterprise suffered, especially in Yorktown case, with she getting hammered by the japanese at Coral Sea, cramming weeks of dry dock in a few days of desperate emergency repairs, being hit by the survivors of the...

And that she could say without exaggerating that she survived worse.

I really hope they were dodging torpedoes, although the smile on the sailor tells me they are not exactly on the middle of combat.

Classic Catch 22, a light plane lacks the firepower and weight to seriously damage the passive defense of a heavy cruiser, but a plane with heavier ordenance is not nimble and fast enough to go through the very agressive defenses of a cruiser division.

Fitting end for a white elephant who did more damage to his own country's war economy than the enemy's. That last sortie was done at the expense of the fuel needed by the escort fleet desperately fighting to keep the sea lines open against relentless US submarines.

The ability to remove the alttitude variable out of the AA equation that the proximity fuze gave to the aerial defenses a vital advantage, with the british artillery having a solid advantage against the subsonic V1 rockets and the american 5'' naval guns improving their capabilities against...

And let's be fair about that part too. The public also remember the Battle of Britain, the eventual victory in North Africa and the fact that the Hunt for the Bismark ended with the battleship sunk, even if it came at a cost. The english gave far more than they got and the british people does...

Oh, I can see their shameful past as cruisers right there on their 8'' turrets. :eek: