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Posted on 07/31/2005 11:09:20 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
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  Updated: 15 December 2004 Virtual Tour of USS Springfield (SSN 761) Description: Attack submarine, designed to seek and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships. Background: The concept of technical superiority over numerical superiority was and still is the driving force in American submarine development. A number of Third World countries are acquiring modern state-of-the-art non-nuclear submarines. Countering this threat is the primary mission of U.S. nuclear attack submarines. Their other missions range from intelligence collection and special forces delivery to anti-ship and strike warfare. The Navy began construction of Seawolf class submarines in 1989. Seawolf is designed to be exceptionally quiet, fast well-armed with advanced sensors. It is a multi-mission vessel, capable of deploying to forward ocean areas to search out and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships and to fire missiles in support of other forces. The first of the class, Seawolf (SSN 21), completed its initial sea trials in July 1996. Attack submarines also carry the Tomahawk cruise missile. Tomahawk launches from attack submarines were successfully conducted during Operation Desert Storm. In late 1998, the contract was let for building the first of the New Attack Submarine. This class, the Virginia-class fully embraces the new strategic concept in ... From the Sea and Forward... From the Sea. It is the first U.S. submarine to be designed for battlespace dominance across a broad spectrum of regional and littoral missions as well as open-ocean, "blue water" missions. The Virginia-class achieves the right balance of core military capabilities and affordability. The Benjamin Franklin-class were converted from Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines and carry drydeck shelters. They are equipped for special operations and support SEALs. The former missile spaces have been converted to accommodations, storage, and recreation spaces. Point of Contact: Public Affairs Office Naval Sea Systems Command (OOD) Washington, DC 20362 General Characteristics, Virginia class Builders: General Dynamics Electric Boat Division and Northrop Grumman Newport News Power Plant: One nuclear reactor, one shaft Length: 377 feet (114.8 meters) Beam: 34 feet (10.4 meters) Submerged Displacement: Approx. 7,800 tons (7,925 metric tons) Speed: 25+ knots (28+ miles per hour, 46.3+ kph) Commissioning date: 23 October 2004 Ships: USS Virginia (SSN 774), Groton, Conn. Texas (SSN 775), under construction; delivery in 2005 Hawaii (SSN 776), under construction; delivery in 2006 North Carolina (SSN 777), named 11 December 2000; delivery in 2007 New Hampshire (SSN 778), named 6 August 2004 New Mexico (SSN 779), named 7 December 2004; construction began in January 2004 Crew: 134: 14 Officers; 120 Enlisted Armament: Tomahawk missiles, twelve VLS tubes, MK-48 ADCAP torpedoes, four torpedo tubes. General Characteristics, Seawolf class Builders: General Dynamics Electric Boat Division. Power Plant: One nuclear reactor, one shaft Length: SSNs 21 and 22: 353 feet (107.6 meters) SSN 23: 453 feet (138.07 meters) Beam: 40 feet (12.2 meters) Submerged Displacement: SSNs 21 and 22: 9,138 tons (9,284 metric tons); SSN 23 12,158 tons (12,353 metric tons) Speed: 25+ knots (28+ miles per hour, 46.3+ kph) Ships: USS Seawolf (SSN 21), Groton, Conn. USS Connecticut (SSN 22), Groton, Conn. USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23), Groton, Conn. Crew: 140: 14 Officers; 126 Enlisted Armament: Tomahawk missiles, MK-48 torpedoes, eight torpedo tubes. Commissioning dates: USS Seawolf – 19 July 1997; USS Connecticut – 11 December 1998 USS Jimmy Carter – 19 February 2005 General Characteristics, Los Angeles class Builders: Newport News Shipbuilding Co.; General Dynamics Electric Boat Division. Power Plant: One nuclear reactor, one shaft Length: 360 feet (109.73 meters) Beam: 33 feet (10.06 meters) Submerged Displacement: Approx. 6,900 tons (7011 metric tons) Speed: 20+ knots (23+ miles per hour, 36.8 +kph) Ships: USS Los Angeles (SSN 688), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Philadelphia (SSN 690), Groton, Conn. USS Memphis (SSN 691), Groton, Conn. USS Bremerton (SSN 698), San Diego, Calif. USS Jacksonville (SSN 699), Norfolk, Va. USS Dallas (SSN 700), Groton, Conn. USS La Jolla (SSN 701), Pearl Harbor, Hi. USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705), Guam. USS Albuquerque (SSN 706), Portsmouth, NH USS Portsmouth (SSN 707), San Diego, Calif. USS Minneapolis-St. Paul (SSN 708), Norfolk, Va. USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 709), Norfolk, Va. USS Augusta (SSN 710), Groton, Conn. USS San Francisco (SSN 711), Guam. USS Houston (SSN 713), Bremerton, Wa. USS Norfolk (SSN 714), Norfolk, Va. USS Buffalo (SSN 715), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Salt Lake City (SSN 716), San Diego, Calif. USS Olympia (SSN 717), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Honolulu (SSN 718), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Providence (SSN 719), Groton, Conn. USS Pittsburgh (SSN 720), Groton, Conn. USS Chicago (SSN 721), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Key West (SSN 722), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723), Norfolk, Va. USS Louisville (SSN 724), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Helena (SSN 725), San Diego, Calif. USS Newport News (SSN 750), Norfolk, Va. USS San Juan (SSN 751), Groton, Conn. USS Pasadena (SSN 752), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Albany (SSN 753), Norfolk, Va. USS Topeka (SSN 754), San Diego, Calif. USS Miami (SSN 755), Groton, Conn. USS Scranton (SSN 756), Norfolk, Va. USS Alexandria (SSN 757), Groton, Conn. USS Asheville (SSN 758), San Diego, Calif. USS Jefferson City (SSN 759), San Diego, Calif. USS Annapolis (SSN 760), Groton, Conn. USS Springfield (SSN 761), Groton, Conn. USS Columbus (SSN 762), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Santa Fe (SSN 763), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Boise (SSN 764), Norfolk, Va. USS Montpelier (SSN 765), Norfolk, Va. USS Charlotte (SSN 766), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. USS Hampton (SSN 767), Norfolk, Va. USS Hartford (SSN 768), Groton, Conn. USS Toledo (SSN 769), Groton, Conn. USS Tucson (SSN 770), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Columbia (SSN 771), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Greeneville (SSN 772), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USS Cheyenne (SSN 773), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Crew: 13 Officers, 121 Enlisted Armament: Tomahawk missiles, VLS tubes (SSN 719 and later), MK-48 torpedoes, four torpedo tubes (Seawolf has 8). Date deployed: November 13, 1976 (USS Los Angeles)      |
I enjoy everything you post. God bless and Thank You
I have a request of everyone today. Please stop over and and bump, and maybe read, this thread. Ping me if you want, a full inbox would be great. Demand is outstripping the supply, of cash, available.
You can visit this site to read about the Hobbit Hole Knife Project. There is also a section where you can read some of the Troop feeback about the knives. Very recently, 28JUL, one of our guys even mentioned the effort in his blog.
You can even read about past projects the Hobbit Hole folks have done.
BTTT!!!!!!
Good morning, Snippy and everyone at the Freeper Foxhole.
Coolbeans!
(Wish I had some spare funds. drats.)
The naval numbers may be slightly inflated. The Jimmy Carter has been so modified that it can't be considered an attack submarine. The same goes for the Memphis. And the San Francisco may also be permamently unavailable as a result of its damage.
I saw this program, National Geographic Specials The Sinking of the Warship Belgrano on PBS the other night.
The show made me wanna barf. The producers interviewed a number of the guys from the H.M.S. Conqueror. It seems a few of them were all gung ho to be aboard a submarine, but never expect to have to shoot at anything or anybody. The reality of you're here to kill people and break things didn't sit well on there consciences.
National Geographic has lost a lot of my respect over the years. I was a "Valued member since 1978" until I let my membership/subsription lapse in 2003.
Hi miss Feather
This is how my week has been going, and I ain't the cat!
Hope next week is better or there may be two cats in the picture
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Thank you.
Thank you PE. It's a great work the Hobbit Hole has been doing. I know it is a great expense for all but worth it.
Beautiful. Good afternoon sweetie pie.
Neat graphic of the USS Texan SSN
Good afternoon EGC.
Hey Dark.
Thanks for the information PAR35.
You last way longer than I did.
LOL! I love it! I never knew about this.
Good afternoon feather. Thanks for the bird post.
Are you lovin' that computer yet?
You're from Texas living in California. PE is from California, living in Texas. Just a thought.
I can sympathize with you. It's not been a real good week for us either.
LOL. I really like that graphic.
Evening!
LOL. Wonderful pictures, looks like a lot of fun! YeeHaw!
Getting closer...
Bump!
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 31:
1527 Maximilian II, German King/Emperor (1564-76)
1704 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer)
1803 John Ericsson US, invented screw propeller, built USS Monitor
1816 George Henry Thomas "the Rock of Chickamauga,", Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1817 Philip Cook Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1825 Thomas Hart Taylor, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1837 William Clarke Quantrill Col (Confederate Army)
1841 George Melville polar explorer, naval engineer
1900 Elmo Roper pollster (Roper Poll)
1901 Jean Dubuffet France, painter (Landscape with 2 Personages)
1911 George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show),born (Menasha, Wisc)
1912 Irv Kupcinet Chicago Ill, TV host (Tonight! America After Dark)
1912 Milton Friedman economist (Nobel 1976)
1919 Curt Gowdy Green River Wyo, sportscaster (ABC)
1919 Primo Levi Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz)
1921 Whitney M Young Jr civil rights leader, head of Urban League
1923 Ahmet Ertegun CEO (Atlantic Records)
1932 Ted Cassidy, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Lurch-Addams Family)
1929 Don Murray Calif, actor (Bus Stop, Advise & Consent, Endless Love)
1939 France Nuyen Marselles France, actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head)
1943 William Bennett US Secretary of Education (1985-88)/drug czar/radio talk show
1944 Geraldine Chaplin Santa Monica Ca, actress (Dr Zhivago, 3 Musketeers)
1946 Bob Welch rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
1946 Gary Lewis Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1951 Barry Van Dyke Atlanta Ga, actor (Lt Dillon-Battlestar Galactica)
1951 Evonne Goolagong Cawley Australia, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1971)
1957 Dirk Blocker LA Calif, actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four)
1962 Sandra "Sweetness" Hodge basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
Shades of Deadwood.
Don't get us started! ;^)
Hey, lookit that...
Wait for it
GMTA
Way back when, oh about two weeks ago, I had the proveledge of seeing a peice of hull plating from the Monitor.
I have ranted a couple of times on non-Foxhole threads about the current state of the navy and the direction that it is heading. They are still thinking with a post cold war mentality.
Cool!
John Ericsson, interesting guy.
Evening! Fine post today.
USS Greeneville skipper Commander Scott Waddle went on from a reprimand and honorable discharge to be a motivational speaker--you cannot make this stuff up. My best friend from High School went Navy subs then onto training nuclear power plant operators--what would Joe say about Scott? Can't be printed here.
Those documents are available at Collision at Sea.
1803 John Ericsson US, invented screw propeller, built USS Monitor
This in turn indicates that rafting and other, more advanced quieting techniques first adopted by Thresher in the United States were probably adopted by the Soviets only with Victor III. It also demonstrates the significance of the Toshiba, nine axis milling machinery obtained by the Soviet Union which gave them the ability to make the kind of skew back propellers that reduce blade rate tonals.(84) This technology, combined on Akula with the quieting technologies already demonstrated on Victor III, gave the Soviets by the mid 1980s a nuclear submarine that could elude SOSUS and frustrate efforts by tactical ASW platforms using passive sonar to establish and maintain contact with it.(85) At long ranges its narrow band, low frequency tonals had been reduced below the source level of its continuous broadband signature, and the source level of that broadband signature was close or equal to that of American Sturgeons and early 688s.(86) Absent a strong narrowband tonal structure, and with low broadband source levels, passive acoustic detection, classification, and localization of submarines becomes quite difficult at long range, and counter-detection becomes more likely at shorter ranges.
From Phase IV of the Third Battle: ASW and Acoustic Parity: 1980-1990
From Bill Gertz, BETRAYAL: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security, Regnery, 1999, Chapter Two: The Kapitan Man, pp 7-30:
On April 4, 1997, a Russian merchant ship suspected of spying on U.S. nuclear missile submarines was photographed by a Canadian military surveillance helicopter that had been tracking the ship in U.S. territorial waters north of Puget Sound. During the encounter, someone on the Russian vessel fired a laser at the helicopter, permanently damaging the eyes of the Canadian helicopter pilot and a U.S. Navy intelligence officer working with the Canadians. The incident was kept secret by the Clinton administration for weeks. The president and his advisers did not want to publicize a hostile action that would upset its conciliatory policy toward Russia. This is the inside story of the incident.
From ALTERING OF EVIDENCE BY THE OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE (ONI):
THE MISSION CONDUCTED TO PHOTOGRAPH THE KAPITAN MAN WAS FLOWN ON FRIDAY, APRIL 4TH, 1997, BETWEEN 1200 (NOON) AND 1300 (1 PM) ON A BRIGHT SUNNY DAY WITH CLEAR SKIES. VISIBILITY WAS IN EXCESS OF 10 MILES.
Strobe Talbott Our American Lenin tipped the Russians to the boarding party so they could hide the laser. The DOD posted its altered image with this wonderful caption:
A view of part of the superstructure of the Russian merchant vessel M/V Kapitan Man, in Puget Sound near Seattle, Wash., on April 4, 1997. The Department of Defense (DoD) recently completed its investigation of a suspected lasing incident involving this vessel on that date. The results of the investigation indicate that the eye injuries of an American officer are consistent with injuries that would be expected from exposure to a low level laser, such as a laser range-finder. However, there is no evidence to indicate the source of the laser or to link the officer's eye injury to a laser on the Kapitan Man.
Al Gore and Viktor Chernomyrdin were tight as ticks; Bush accused Chernomyrdin of embezzling billions, eliciting a threat of a libel suit that somehow never materialized.
Shall we allow the copresident of the traitor administration to return to the scene of the crime or torpedo HMS Pantsuit?
Ready tubes.
BTTT!!!!!!!
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