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100,000 Tons of U.S. Firepower too Big to Dock at Portsmouth: Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore ....
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^
| March 23, 2015
| Tom Payne
Posted on 03/23/2015 11:32:30 AM PDT by Cecily
She weighs in at an impressive 100,000 tons and is longer than The Shard is tall.
And today the mammoth USS Theodore Roosevelt was anchored just off the coast of Hampshire because she was simply 'too big' to sail into the Royal Navy's historic Portsmouth dockyard.
Thousands of stunned spectators jammed roads and lined the banks of the River Solent to welcome the 1,092ft-long floating city as it arrived for a five-day visit to the UK on the first stop of a global deployment.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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Is Obozo really sending the carrier to bomb the oxygen thieves known as ISIS? I hope so.
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posted on
03/23/2015 11:32:30 AM PDT
by
Cecily
To: Cecily
There was a time the Royal Navy had the largest warships if the world.
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posted on
03/23/2015 11:33:50 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Cecily
I’m surprised Obama hasn’t mothballed this one too!
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posted on
03/23/2015 11:36:27 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: Cecily
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posted on
03/23/2015 11:41:46 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
To: Cecily
“She can go three months without resupply”
Provided the crew doesn’t eat and the planes don’t fly.
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posted on
03/23/2015 11:45:23 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
To: C19fan
In the words of the exiled NR writer Andrew Stuttaford, that is one BSD....
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posted on
03/23/2015 11:46:43 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Psalm 73
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posted on
03/23/2015 11:51:02 AM PDT
by
bt-99
("Get off my Lawn")
To: C19fan
“There was a time the Royal Navy had the largest warships if the world.”
There was a time when the sun never set on the British Empire.
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posted on
03/23/2015 11:53:59 AM PDT
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: Cecily
“Another joked in reference to recent increased tensions between the West and Russia: ‘Wonder if any Russian bombers will fly up the Channel this week?’”
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe the Roosevelt should take a side trip up the Baltic Sea while it’s in the general area.
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posted on
03/23/2015 11:54:32 AM PDT
by
riverdawg
To: C19fan
There was a time the Royal Navy had the largest warships if the world. Must of been quite the site, looking from lower Manhattan into the harbor and seeing a good portion of the British fleet, prior to being clobbered by them.
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posted on
03/23/2015 12:03:37 PM PDT
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: bt-99
The Iowa was called "The Big Stick" while it was floating around.
I'd think either one of them could make a good claim for the name.
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posted on
03/23/2015 12:09:13 PM PDT
by
skimbell
To: Cecily
100,000 tons of diplomacy.
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posted on
03/23/2015 12:19:24 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(I've been to the 15th broken moon of the Medusa Cascade & the diamond coral reefs of Kataa Flo Ko.)
To: Cecily
There's a list of facts about half-way through. I hope this one is a bit of disinformation:
* She is armed with two $165,400 (£110,498) 'sea sparrow' missiles, capable of hitting targets 10 miles away.
TWO???
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posted on
03/23/2015 12:39:46 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: C19fan
There was a time the Royal Navy had the largest warships if the world. Not since before World War II.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
TWO??? Two launchers. Eight missiles per launcher.
To: Cecily
Is Obozo really sending the carrier to bomb the oxygen thieves known as ISIS? I hope so. Yes. She replaces the Carl Vinson on station. Once her 8 month deployment is over then she heads for a new home port in San Diego.
And I don't think any U.S. carriers have been able to pull in to Portsmouth for decades. I remember seeing one, I think it was the Kennedy, back in the 70's anchored in the Solent.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Probably they mean two missile launchers, not just two missiles.
To: Cecily
Gonna need a bigger dock..................
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posted on
03/23/2015 1:12:20 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Her desalination plant makes 400,000 gallons of fresh water from the sea ever day enough for 2,000 homes. Maybe California could try that......................
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posted on
03/23/2015 1:14:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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