U.S. Navy's new ships

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Impressive speeds and very different looking than any Navy ship I've ever seen. A few pics on the article.

The Navy's need for speed is being answered by a pair of warships that have reached freeway speeds during testing at sea.

Independence, a 418-foot warship built in Alabama, boasts a top speed in excess of 45 knots, or about 52 mph, and sustained 44 knots for four hours during builder trials that wrapped up this month off the Gulf Coast. The 378-foot Freedom, a ship built in Wisconsin by a competing defense contractor, has put up similar numbers.
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Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute, noted that Independence sustained 44 knots despite a 30-knot headwind and 6- to 8-foot seas in Alabama's Mobile Bay. "For a ship of this size, it's simply unheard of to sustain that rate of speed for four hours," he said.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gtAdCDYzA8NImWi1iBA8ukiBF08wD9BGCUJG0
 
I wonder what these things burn at WOT. And how much fuel they carry. I'm sure both are big numbers, but these things are pretty darn cool, and it certainly would be weird getting passed by one when cruising along at 18 knots in a C-Dory.
 
20dauntless":2rzkb7ds said:
I wonder what these things burn at WOT. And how much fuel they carry. I'm sure both are big numbers, but these things are pretty darn cool, and it certainly would be weird getting passed by one when cruising along at 18 knots in a C-Dory.
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I guess since they are designed specifically for littoral use, they will never be far from a fuel dock? Otherwise I don't see how they could carry anything BUT fuel. I'll bet at WOT the GPMinute number is several multiples of a C-Dory's cruising GPH.

And if one should go by you, I'd pay attention to the wake!
 
looks like the pirates of africa have new ball game coming their way. :twisted: not to mention the drug runners.

Used along side one of these cat

and you have the ability to invade a coast from over the horizon in under 4 hours. hit the beach with air and a missile attack followed by fast movers picking off any left over navy and then roll off a marine battalion already in full combat formation and in under one hour. hate to be on the receiving end of that.
 
We just last week commissioned a Littoral Combat Ship Support Facility here at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD). See:

http://marinelink.com/News/Article/Litt ... 32180.aspx

It is named the Mission Package Support Facility (MPSF). The facility is based in the former Shuttle Recovery Building here at NSWC PHD. The building was originally constructed by the U.S. Air Force to rebuild Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters for the west coast space shuttle program.

After the Challenger blew up in January of 1986 and the west coast space shuttle program was cancelled, the building was repurposed to support various Navy missiles and Vertical Launch System canisters.

I have worked in the missiles group at NSWC PHD since August of 1989 as an information technology specialist. I currently also serve as the NSWC PHD International Military Student Officer (IMSO). The IMSO job is an assigned collateral duty.

Last year, NSWC PHD was one of a number of Navy commands that received a Meritorious Unit Commendation for the successful shootdown of a satellite in a decaying orbit with about 1000 pounds of highly toxic hydrazine aboard. One shot, one kill. See:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... lite.html#

I'll be in Pensacola, Florida next week from 26-30 OCT 2009 for the 2009 IMSO workshop. It's a pity that I could not make it to the C-Dory event near Pensacola this weekend.


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An all-aluminum ship-- remember how the Royal Navy aluminum destroyers' hulls burned in the Falklands War when hit by Exocet missiles? I understand they don't even allow smoking onboard because of the fire danger. Ironic.
 
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