The Navy You Helped Build

Center for Security Policy ^ | 1 Aug 19 | Christopher Holton

[LSUfan]

Shortly after Operation Desert Storm the U.S. Navy was by far the largest and most modern naval force in the world with 529 total ships, including the following combatants:

1 Battleship

15 Aircraft Carriers

47 Cruisers

47 Destroyers

93 Frigates

87 Fast Attack Submarines

34 Ballistic Missile Submarines

65 Amphibious Warfare Ships

At about that same time, Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) included no modern warships—no aircraft carriers, no cruisers and no modern destroyers or frigates. The PLAN had a few nuclear powered submarines, but they, like China’s fleet of destroyers and frigates, were a full generation or more behind those that made up the U.S. fleet.

[This_Dude]

And what battleship would that be?

[chemical_boy]

Missouri

[KC_Lion]

And what battleship would that be?

USS Missouri, she wasn't decommissioned until March of 1992

[KC_Lion]

For your interest.

[dljordan]

“And what battleship would that be?”

The USS Michael Obama. Oh, you said battleship, not battleaxe?

[This_Dude]

I thought we got rid of all our battleships decades prior to that

Learn something new every day

[DoodleDawg]

And what battleship would that be?

Probably the Missouri. She and the Wisconsin were still active for Desert Storm but the Missouri was decommissioned one year after the Wisconsin was.

[colorado tanker]

So what? According to the Democrats, the whole planet will be dead in 10 years, 15 tops.

[chemical_boy]

The USS Missouri shot up Iraq with cruise Missiles and about 250+ sixteen Inch shells during Desert Storm

[woodbutcher1963]

We still have ONE wooden frigate too.

The USS Constitution in Charlestown, MA Navy yard.
They use a tug to bring it out and turn it around every July 4th. “OLD IRONSIDES”

IF you ever get to Honolulu be sure to take the Pearl Harbor tour. The USS Missouri sits right on battleship row of Ford Island on the mooring directly behind the USS Arizona Memorial.

[Spruce]

Not to mention the USS Ford keeps tripping over its own dick

[ClearCase_guy]

Not to mention the USS Ford keeps tripping over its own dick

We need to build transgender ships so that won't happen

[wastedyears]

I don’t think we should have a Navy for much more than escorting shipping, but just one battleship?

[Menehune56]

Photos of the Missouri's last combat in Desert Storm.

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/battleships-pulled-off-the-biggest-ruse-of-operation-de-1754104974

[Alberta's Child]

Battleships were decommissioned years ago because they are expensive and cumbersome to operate, and because their capabilities have basically been replaced by air power and cruise missiles.

Honestly, I thought they took a few of those out of mothballs for political reasons more than anything else. I would guess there hasn't been a single military engagement in the last 50 years where a battleship would have had any implications on the outcome.

[VietVet876]

The USS New Jersey sat offshore and absolutely clobbered Syrian positions in Beirut in 1983. I watched from maybe 10 miles away in the spring of 1969 when she shelled NVA positions in the RVN from well offshore. Hard to beat as an extremely mobile artillery platform.

[Mouton]

Nothing like dropping Volkswagen weight shells on a sheltered position.

[VietVet876]

And from about 27 miles away.

[Midwesterner53]

Talk to Obama about nearly destroying the military with drastic reductions and lunatic left wing social experiments, most still in place.