Military Photo of the Day

MILPOD ^ | 21 Dec 2013 | MILPOD

[frankenMonkey]

	U.S. Navy ships from the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group simulate a strait transit in the Atlantic Ocean during a pre-deployment evaluation. Dec 2013. U.S. Navy Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Wolpert.

[Spruce]

Panels that cover radar components

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SPY-1

[EEGator]

Thank you very much.

[EEGator]

See post #21.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Those are part of the AEGIS Combat System.

[Stonewall Jackson]

[Stonewall Jackson]

Judging from the ship numbers, the lead vessel is the guided missile destroyer Arleigh Burke, lead ship in the Burke-class of destroyers, while the ship right alongside the carrier is the guided missile cruiser Leyte Gulf, a Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

[mabarker1]

The panels are what used to be a Radar dish, the new system is called Phased Array Radar. It is now computer swept instead of the Radar dish rotating it’s all done electronically sending signals to the different sections of the panel.

http://www.radartutorial.eu/06.antennas/an14.en.html

[EEGator]

Thank you both.

[PhiloBedo]

Great picture! Please add me to the list.

[Hoodat]

Please add me to the list. Grateful thanks in advance.

[twoputt]

That’s a picture of freedom and liberty.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Thanks for locating and posting. This is exactly the photograph I was thinking about.

[hsalaw]

Thanks very much for the info.

[Stonewall Jackson]

It is a classic.

If I remember correctly, the third and fourth ships in column are actually heavy cruisers, but for the life of me I can't find where I read that.

[Dartman]

Add me, please. That’s a lot of ships in a lot of water !!

[mabarker1]

Welcome

[GATOR NAVY]

"USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) leads USS Colorado (BB-45), USS Louisville (CA-28), USS Portland (CA-33), and USS Columbia (CL-56) into Lingayen Gulf before the landing on Luzon, Philippines, in January 1945."

USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Thanks for taking the time to ID and then post the ship names.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Thanks for the info, GATOR NAVY.

The task force was hit by a kamikaze attack shortly after the picture was taken. On January 5, Louisville was struck on the number two turret, but only suffered minor damage. The next afternoon, however, another kamikaze hit her on the bridge, mortally wounding Rear Admiral Thomas Chandler, the commanding officer of CRUDIV4 (Cruiser Division 4).

[GATOR NAVY]

This is a still from film of the attack here. 43 dead, can't find a number for the wounded but it must have been large.