Posted on 09/14/2017 6:34:49 PM PDT by BBell
Commissioned by the Japanese in December of 1941, just over a week after their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Yamato was the largest, most powerful battleship that had ever existed a title that it still holds to this day, over 75 years later. With its nine 18.1-inch guns, it could fire 3,000 pound shells up to 26 miles away so far that it required spotter aircraft to identify targets over the horizon. In comparison, the heaviest guns on U.S. battleships were 16 inches and limited to a maximum range of 20 miles. To paraphrase President Trump, it was truly a ship to make its enemies shake with fear.
While the Yamato was the pinnacle of the battleship era, the recently commissioned USS Gerald Ford represents the state of the art of what came next the era of naval aviation and, crucially, the aircraft carrier. At 1,100 feet long and displacing over 100,000 tons, the Ford is a massive ship. However, while what distinguished the Yamato from its peers was the size of the ship and its cannons, what distinguishes the Ford are its technological improvements. Of roughly similar size and speed as the previous Nimitz class of supercarriers, Fords advantage comes, in part, from its increased efficiency. Advances in design allow it to launch 25 percent more sorties per day, greatly increasing its striking power. It also operates with at least 20 percent fewer crew members due to improved automation.
The Ford is adding to an existing fleet of 10 Nimitz class supercarriers. These are joined by an additional nine amphibious assault ships that, while much smaller and with more limited capabilities, are still capable of launching a range of helicopters and vertical takeoff and landing fixed wing aircraft. By comparison, the rest of the worlds major navies
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Exactly. Short of a nuke, it would take an enormous amount of ordinance - or a couple of well-placed torpedoes - to sink a CV. And the delivery systems would have to get close enough to deploy, and then run through a gauntlet of defensive mechanisms, of the jamming as well as live-fire variety.
Our AA systems (especially the AA gattling guns on the smaller ships) are designed to intercept and deal with anything that get through the outer cordon and comes down to sea level (aka - cruise missile type weapons) for the final run at the target.
Given recent events, the phrase “The USS Gerald Ford DOES” should read “The USS Gerald Ford DID”.
A working catapult would help also.
Then soon after the 100’s of missiles fired would hit every ship in the fleet.
Hundreds of missiles? What are you talking about? Do the ChiComs pay these anti A/C nuts to post here?
The U.S. Navy has some 4,000 Tomahawks.
http://www.defenseone.com/business/2017/04/us-about-stop-buying-tomahawk-missiles-ones-hit-syria/136866/
The Chinese or some other enemy would use their missiles on the approaching fleet. I would think they have as many or more if war is coming.
Our subs need to be converted to fire many more missiles then they do now to take out theirs prior to the navy ships getting close but that would be difficult as they can be on land or sea or air platforms. Their iPhone factories would be converted to making iMissiles by the thousands.
Don’t need to be to know missiles are much faster then any ship.
The Navy fired 60 at a single runway in the article I linked to. How many do you think our enemies will fire to sink our ships. As many as needed.
But you are the Naval warfare expert here and not me. So you win the argument. /sarcasm
The chinese would also use ballistic missiles.
Yep. The near future will see swarms of cheap, expendable robotics run by remote crews. Technology has scant respect for tradition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmT-3LN6jko
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