Navy's hardest-punching but aging warship has no replacement in sight

The San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | May 19, 2017 | Carl Prine

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[vooch]

if it’s such a great idea to replace, then start a voluntary fund

[Vendome]

[Viking2002]

Give her an Earl Scheib Special, a few cans of Flex Seal and Marvel Mystery Oil, and I bet we can get another 20 years out of her. Hey, I'm a guy. Ain't nothing a roll of Gorilla Tape can't fix.

[soycd]

How about we just send a 50 megaton boomer instead. It’s time to stop playing footsie. If you mess with US, you get the best.

[PAR35]

Two 5 inch guns and torpedo tubes about half the size of those on a WWII destroyer.

[logi_cal869]

Sadly, the Iowa-class ships were obsolete when their keels were laid; the Navy only changed due to what are now historic events.

I’m not convinced that history isn’t repeating itself with the Zumwalt...

[pepsi_junkie]

Two 5 inch guns and torpedo tubes about half the size of those on a WWII destroyer.

And a large number of vertical launching cells containing missiles capable of taking out multiple surface and air targets simultaneously...

[pepsi_junkie]

And if the torpedo tubes you are referring to are the ones on the fantail, I think those are chaff launchers to confuse incoming missiles.

[mountn man]

Two 5 inch guns and torpedo tubes about half the size of those on a WWII destroyer.

And 2 x 61 cell, Mk 41 vertical launchers, that handle an assortment of missiles, or just 122 Tomahawks. Plus the Aegis system. A radar system and EW system that a WWII ship could only wet dream about.

[central_va]

Yes, the MK46 torpedo has a dinky warhead.

[mountn man]

Our known missiles are in the kilo ton range

[soycd]

>Our known missiles are in the kilo ton range

Agreed. Either send a dozen known or one that I KNOW we can build.

[Fred Hayek]

The torpedo tubes are for lightweight anti-submarine torpedoes. As for the 2 5” guns, the 5”/62 Mark 45’s have a much higher rate of fire than the WWII era 5”/38’s
But the main armaments are in the two 64 cell Mark 41 VLS’s.

[wxgesr]

Harpoons

[dadgum]

I think the Ohio-class sub carries about a 90 megaton total. 475Kton*24 missiles*8 MIRVS/missile. Just spit-balling, but I think that is accurate.

PLENTY of destructive power: 192 warheads capable of up to 475Kton.

[Squantos]

Is the basic composition of a carrier group based on the carrier, an attack sub, a replenishment ship, 2 frigates, 2 destroyers and 2 cruisers in general ? Then depending on the mission additional ships added ??

[Squantos]

If the D5’s are fully loaded with W88’s versus W76’s your correct....

[spetznaz]

....and yet more lethal than a baker’s dozen of those WW2 destroyers.