Oh, that's nothing compared to Japan's new "destroyer"
Posted on 12/07/2015 7:14:30 PM PST by artichokegrower
My dad was XO of USS Arlington (refitted carrier Saipan) communications ship. He was present when the astronauts splashed down after the landing on the moon. In 2009, I ran into a young lady working at Starbucks in El Cajon. Her dad was on the recovery team in the water to apply the collar, open the door and recover the astronauts. Small world.
I had a good uncle who fought on the USS Missouri and was in for some 30 years. I wonder what he would have said if he was alive and saw that thing.
On an off note, I have a set of Japanese presentation sake cups with the Soya kanji inscribed. Very rare.
Wow, that seriously does not look good. Where’s the solution to the vulnerabilities? They all but admit heavy seas could rip the forward deck gun right of the ship and flood the hull!
I know. This new class ship cannot handle severe sea states 7, 8 and definitely not 9, conditions.
Fatal pitch, roll and broach attributes in very heavy seas.
How could this happen with so many competent naval ship design engineers?
When you add up all the appalling misjudgement and mistakes, it appears that all levels of this nations leaders are adle-brained and are working for the other team.
Just add up all the cluster-fuk policy decisions, untrustworthy alliances, arming our enemies, and more.
They kill the well performing A-10 and F-22.
Commit a Trillion dollars to the poor performing F-35.
Build the Littoral sitting duck ships, and now this Burial-at-Sea Tumblehome hull battleship...
WTF?
I miss the 80’s Fiercely!
Which Portland of which are we speaking? Portland, OR has had liberal, fag, pedo, weirdo, mayors for a long time.
I guess ME as the ship was launched there.
Count the ribs, plates looking like they were slapped together, and honestly, with only the bridge crew and helo people getting ports, they’re going to have to draw crew from the submarines to man it.
Not a craft I’d prefer to serve on. Worse, what the design gives in the way of protection is mostly against threats already addressed. I’d much rather more Burke class than this novelty.
i would worry about the top sides. and it seems it was designed for that submarining to happen
In very violent sea states, given a large volumes of water flowing over the gun mount housing, as the bow submerges below the water, perhaps sufficient in scale and velocity to lift if not wash away (exfoliate) the forward AGS gun mount from the weatherdeck, flooding the compartments below.
Maybe they can issue a few ‘Z-Grams’ to fix it. ;)
Oh, that's nothing compared to Japan's new "destroyer"
The whole of the propaganda surrounding the fitness/seaworthiness of this ship is a Z-Gram. The Navy has the Zumwalt, the Air Force the F-35. Waiting on what the Army will come up with ... Oh! I almost forgot. That’s right, open all combat positions to women ...
I’ve always loved the look of warships. This excites me about as much as a new toaster.
Thanks. Cruiser makes sense. I looked through Russian battleships of that era, and most of them were two stackers. I couldn’t find one that matched up with that picture.
Look aft, at the hanger and the hull below it. They didn’t even finish the paint job.
Perhaps because no guns showing? And I’m not being sarcastic.
We’ll be able to tell in a few years whether or not it’s a good hull design by whether the Chinese and the Russians start building copies.
I just tell kids that color had not been invented yet.
Me, too. the welds and plate placements on that thing look like a junior high school class did it.
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