Posted on 07/12/2023 9:06:21 AM PDT by george76
Better in a dock than on the bottom.
US shipyard capacity: 100,000 tons
Chinese shipyard capacity: 23,250,000 million tons
Goes along with:
US steel production: 90,000,000 tons per year
China steel production: 1,000,000,000 tons per year
That’s nothing! 98% of our Congress Critters are insane.
Probably need to see if Trump waived this information around. /s
If it bleeds, it leads.
And American blood leads first!
Ukraine needs the money -- don't you know?
Ukraine is just so much more important than
all of that Navy stuff. One hundred billion more
dollars for Ukraine!
Wave around a sheet of paper and you're a traitor, according to the MSM; but publish actual numbers about the status of critical weapons systems and that's no biggie.
Broadcast it to our enemies.
DIVERSITY is OUR strength! Who needs weapons when we have the moral high ground and the tide of history on our side?
Passsegoula, Mississippi, Nofork, Virginia, and Electric Boat are the only shipyards I know of now. And I am not sure about them.
They might still do work in Portsmouth, NH but not sure.
The USN counts:
117 one star admirals
64 two star admirals
32 three star admirals
10 four star admirals
That’s 219 flag officers for 290 combatant ships.
Yikes.
What’s that saying about too many captains?
As another poster pointed out, submarines do not use radar--at least not underwater that is. (They do use radar when surfaced to avoid traffic.)
But to your point about not detecting mountains, here's the thing: submarines use passive sonar to detect other submarines. If they used active sonar, they could be detected by the submarines they're hunting well before they'd get a return ping from their active sonar.
But by using passive sonar, it makes silent underwater mountains undetectable. Best to mind your nautical charts!
He just posted the article. Why the attack?
Right. I don’t why I was thinking radar. Back of my mind it was sonar. I hadn’t watched enough submarine action movies.
Correct. Like I told central_va I had sonar in the back of my mind. You’ve brought up interesting points about passive and active sonar. Somebody on the USS Connecticut failed nautical chart reading.
%4 Best to mind your nautical charts!
Captain: Is that a smudge on the chart or a coffee stain?
SMASH!
I did look. The Navy Yard up in Portsmouth is still in business. Kind of irritated now to admit I couldn’t remember if they were or not!
Sucks to get old. That is the yard that destroyed the Miami.
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