Warship Appreciation Thread

Knowledgeispower

Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Uh no, the name decision was made by the Reagan Administration when the ship was ordered in 1988.
Well given the Clinton administration renamed the ship that became the Truman at the last second they bloody well could have changed it.
 

Megadeath

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Well given the Clinton administration renamed the ship that became the Truman at the last second they bloody well could have changed it.
But in that case, they were deciding not to make an exception to the naming convention and they hardly did so "at the last second". It'd also be more of a dick move since they'd have been messing with a choice from a different administration which wasn't the case with the Truman. Last, it's painfully obvious reaching to support a bias that you'd blame the Clinton administration for not changing another administration's decision rather than lay the blame at the feet of the administration that actually decided it.
 

Knowledgeispower

Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
The Truman’s name was changed in February 1995, well before her christening on 7 September 1996. Changing a ship name is a big deal, not normally done, and you’re really stretching to try to blame Clinton.
Points to the Chancellorvile. Yeah good thing she's being decommissioned soon that girl just got all the bad luck.
But fair enough on the Clinton thing.
 

Husky_Khan

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Oh hell yeah!

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I am FULL OF APPRECIATION RIGHT NOW!!!

This concept is known as the Joint Mobile Offshore Base or JMOB and was featured in the April 2003 issue of Popular Mechanics. Which is surprising, it definitely has the feeling of those WonderWeapon concepts you see in magazines from the early Cold War or even the Interwar year concepts and the like.
 
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ATP

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Oh hell yeah!

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I am FULL OF APPRECIATION RIGHT NOW!!!

This concept is known as the Joint Mobile Offshore Base or JMOB and was featured in the April 2003 issue of Popular Mechanics. Which is surprising, it definitely has the feeling of those WonderWeapon concepts you see in magazines from the early Cold War or even the Interwar year concepts and the like.
YEEEESSSS !!!!!!!

Now,i want it ISOT into each and every possible war which i could think about since 1900 AD !
 

Sailor.X

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And with this all the Enlisted Green Water Navy Sailors are finally vindicated. We told the Navy the LCS ships were a terrible idea. But the Keyboard Warriors across the internet (And especially on SB) all said we did not know what we were talking about. That Engineers and Officers who only served in the Blue Water Navy know how to conduct work they never did ever. Maybe just maybe when Boat Guys say this is a bad idea. Maybe the powers that be will listen instead of ignoring us.
 

ShadowArxxy

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The USS Blueback (SS-581) is the U.S. Navy's last diesel electric combat submarine, and at the same time its first modern attack submarine with an "Albacore" teardrop hull and technological innovations such as a unified control room and "push button" ballast control. She is the only example of a modern attack submarine preserved as a museum ship.



Interestingly, Blueback visited her future home in Portland, Oregon at least once during her active Navy career, participating in a Fleet Week port visit during the 1978 Rose Festival.
 

ShadowArxxy

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It's especially sad because they originally announced she'd be preserved as a museum ship, and then about a year and a half later she was quietly listed for sale to scrap.

(Most likely because they realized just how expensive museum ships are to maintain.)
 

IndyFront

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Fun fact: I once wrote what is now an alternate history scenario involving Russian terrorism in Europe and Chinese vassalism in Latin America in conjunction with a turncoat power (originally Turkey, now Egypt) after Obama lets Russia annex Crimea in 2014, a series of events unfolds essentially at the same time around the world; balkanization of the US, secret army of killbots in space, bioterrorism, etc. but I found it especially hilarious the thought of the greatest navy in the history of the world finding themselves unable to respond to Russian-backed extremists essentially hijacking the cruiser from the Chileans (who get it from the Peruvians of course, and upgrade it out the ass) and using what is essentially a lite-fucking-dreadnought to terrorize countries all over the world, it's actually quite terrible in retrospect but I've been trying to work on it (lol)
 

Aaron Fox

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The NS Savanah, a nuclear hybrid cargo/passenger ship that the US made during the 'Atoms for Peace' program

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Basically, two things killed her: her reactor (largely all the liability bits) and the fact that containerization was being implemented just as she was launched. The designers, surprisingly enough, put a lot of effort into making it safe (including but not limited to: overdoing the structure's strength to make it absorb impacts better, having the reactor containment vessel fill with sea water via one-way valves if the ship is going to Davy Jone's locker after an automatic SCRAM, several layers of containment to minimize radiation exposure (it was soo good in fact that it wasn't worse than background radiation), and a lot of redundant safety systems that can SCRAM the reactor if needed).

It was also something of a speed demon, as she did far better than what her designers designed her for (she was designed for 20 knots, she sped to 24 knots).

But as I said, liability and containerization killed her.
 

ShadowArxxy

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If I was Supreme Dictator of the Planet, I’d be very tempted to pass a law that all new major shipping is required to be nuclear powered because I say so. This shall be supported by heavy taxation on non-nuclear shipping and lavish subsidies and generous loans on nuclear ship construction.
 

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