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To: artichokegrower

I don’t know why, but as a retired Navy guy, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” and I just can’t put my finger on it.


3 posted on 12/07/2015 7:16:31 PM PST by mkjessup (Islam is the ENEMY of all civilized people. Obama is a Muslim. What's that tell ya?!?)
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To: mkjessup

Haven’t these boxy shaped new ships had problems with seaworthiness, ie: severe sea state rolling, listing, bow submarining?


10 posted on 12/07/2015 7:22:36 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: mkjessup

I think it is that “I am a civil war ironclad” look.


20 posted on 12/07/2015 7:37:19 PM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: mkjessup

I worked at Ingalls shipyard building the Spruance class destroyers, it might just be the picture but it looks like pretty shoddy work.


26 posted on 12/07/2015 7:46:21 PM PST by IMR 4350
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To: mkjessup

The price tag?


36 posted on 12/07/2015 8:04:00 PM PST by buwaya
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To: mkjessup

Because it’s reminiscent of the Merrimack


60 posted on 12/07/2015 8:48:04 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: mkjessup

Perhaps because no guns showing? And I’m not being sarcastic.


77 posted on 12/08/2015 7:07:23 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: mkjessup

Me, too. the welds and plate placements on that thing look like a junior high school class did it.


80 posted on 12/08/2015 8:28:30 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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