It has been there a while.
Posted on 03/05/2015 5:57:38 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
1. S-3B Viking carrier based, dedicated ASW asset retired early with no replacement.
2. Dedicated MH-60R helos are too few and do not have the range or loiter time to do the job the S-3B used to do. The MH-60R is the only afloat ASW asset.
3. Dedicated P-3C land based ASW is being phased out and retired in favor of P-8A and Broad Area Maritime Surveillance [BAMS] drone (the MQ-4C Triton drone is based on the RQ-4 Global Hawk).
4. If the total P-8A/BAMS (drone) package would have been procured, the bottom line is the replacement would not have made up the loss of the P-3C’s. As it is, both programs are late and over budget. This translates into FEWER of either type being purchased and put into service.
5. The fast attack sub community [at least one is assigned to each carrier or amphibious battle group] is facing block retirements of boats with no replacement and soaring costs that guarantee fewer SSN's will be built.
I have absolutely know idea how the USN intends to protect is major surface combatants against the submarine threat. Maybe Navy strategists think they can outsource the job to allies [fat chance] or, just maybe, they hope the problem will go away if it's ignored long enough. The problem is this kind of “kick the can down the road” reasoning gets people killed and ships sunk in a REAL war. Yeah, yeah, Obonzo says that global warming [climate change] is DoD’s and the Navy's biggest threat.
It has been there a while.
Other than against foes without Russian/Chicom level countermeasures, probably not.
“Somehow, the French submarine must have been able to slip between the defensive sensor patchwork of patrol aircraft, helicopters, warships and submarines to line up a shot on the $13 billion monstrosity.”
The White Hutters will celebrate this because its not fair that we have Carriers and some others don’t.
Let's see, while China has an army of scientists and engineers, a low cost work force that is not encumbered by political correctness and a sense of nationalism so thick you can cut it with a knife; students in the US all know last night's winner on "American Idol" and the bar where the latest drunken actor choked to death on his own vomit.
Every whitepaper I've seen on the subject of "fiber optic gyros" over the past 25 years has been authored by a Chinese.
I can see where there might be some room for concern.
IIRC, that was one of the first things Obunga cut back upon seizing power.
Coincidence? I think not.......
Conventionally powered CV 67 was decommissioned in 2008. Sadly was not allowed to be upgraded to a nuke power plant and kept in service. Now in Philly Naval Storage awaiting fate.
In real wars the enemy sometimes gets lucky.
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When “Gulliver” is in an induced coma, it’s easy to prevail.
Ah, but the strawberries, that’s, that’s where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist, and I’ve had produced that key if they hadn’t pulled the Caine out of action.
“But he wasn’t in the ship.”
Bump. Stupid is kinda letting his slip show, isn't he? His KGB case officer will want to sharpen up the guy's tools a little bit.
OTOH, these ASW exercises have always been tough for the good guys to win, going back 45 years..... Read Blind Man's Bluff for a good 90's-era account of the secret submarine cold-war operations since World War II. Reading the appendices, it turns out I rode the Pargo (SSN 650) smack in between back-to-back "Ivy Bells" missions to the Barents. I knew those guys were good, but I didn't know they were also spookland heroes.
Kennedy was an absolute mess after going through ‘overhaul’ at Philly at the same time the shipyard was shutting down. There wasn’t any possibility of fixing this ship.
Not necessarily true.... In 1969 a Northern Fleet Echo-II SSGN equipped with "Prairie Masker" equipment actually made it from the Kola Peninsula to Cienfuegos, Cuba without once being detected after leaving its base. Post-analysis of a huge pile of data identified ONE detection of the target creeping along the Greenland shelf in shallow water.
Had heard that, and a lot else— that the ship was nearly continually “jinxed” or “albatrossed” with accidents and performance/maintenance issues, possibly shipyard union related. At least 5 episodes of dockyard arson, even in drydock.
Spent a frustrating year on a CG escort in their BG. CV-67 discovered something was wrong with their CIC surface search radar only after several underway periods. Tech Reps determined the connection between the radar and the display had a ten foot ‘air gap’ - the cable had been cut and not re-attached. Every week had a similar tale.
Indeed. No surprise. Dad was sub-driver. The Thresher disaster was discretely linked to defective welding, caused by shabby construction at a time when the unions were not shall we say.. “patriotic”. It was criminal, just like the arsons. But then— that’s who these people are— the laborite rabble rousers- Reds. It’s why the Navy got the Mafia’s help to control the dockyards/shipyards labor in WWII, with Lucky Luciano’s help— and he did it. Commies and nazis equally bashed about the head and “put out of the locals”
Interestingly enough, the primary submarine detection, tracking, localization and classification device on the Romeo, the AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar (ALFS) was built by... You guessed it! The French!
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