Block III Virginia class. Nice.
SSN-790
They are very fine and capable and we actually have a good number of them.
> USS South Dakota submarine to be christened Saturday <
I guess I’m a bit of a curmudgeon here, but I’d prefer it if only battleships were named after states. When I first glanced at the title, I really thought it referred to the old battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57) .
So, yeah, name battleships after states. Name submarines after well-known Freepers. Or after fish, if you must.
I wonder how silent a nuclear attack sub is versus modern hybrid-electric subs.
Two attack subs per year is inadequate to our national security needs.
We need a surge of 4 for two years, then 3 per year thereafter.
And, it wouldn’t hurt to build one DE sub per year for the littorals...Persian Gulf, South China Sea, Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea could all benefit.
The SSN is a Blue Water weapon system.
Not exactly on point but a nice link about the USS Nautilus (SSN-571). I remember reading the book ‘Nautilus 90 North’ by Commander Anderson as a sophomore in high school in 1959. That under ice transit of the north pole was a shot in the arm to the US after Sputnik 1 the previous year. (Some of those ice keels dipped over 150’ below the surface. The depth of the Arctic Ocean below the pole is 13,000’. No problem there but the diving depth could make things problematical. The Nautilus could dive to 700’ I believe.) The crew of the Nautilus was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation by President Eisenhower, the first awarded in peacetime.
http://navsource.org/archives/08/pdf/0857102q.pdf
The USS Harvey Weinstein, it goes down whether you want it to or not.
waste of taxpayer dollars
The design was butchered to meet TREATY obligations that only the United States honored after World War I.
However, in some sense, this World War II battleship was in a anti-aircraft battleship.
In one of the battles around Guadalcanal, this ship protected the carrier USS Enterprise.
But it had a terrible time that when its 16 inch guns were fired, it tripped all the ELECTRIC CIRCUITS on the ship and CRIPPLED the ship.
The official US Navy Historian of World War II labeled it an unlucky ship
Of course, its bad luck was that it was the victim of the US honoring a TREATY that no one else honored (aka Germany and Japan).
However, the USS Iowa class fixed all that (follow on class).
My father was on the commissioning crew of the battleship Iowa. I decided to wear that cap today.
God, Family, Country.
That are the priorities of our life:
God first.
Our families second.
Our country is number 3. Still very important.
should be christened in state it is named after..*grin*