Posted on 10/12/2014 6:18:01 PM PDT by lbryce
John F. Kennedy became famous because of his heroics on the PT 109. Maybe he could have become commander of the universe if he piloted the Navy warship of the future. It’s called The Ghost.
Built by Juliet Marine Systems, a private company in Portsmouth, N.H., it’s designed to fight swarm attacks, water-born IEDs, and, aargghh, piracy. According to Business Insider, “Ghost is intended to have zero radar signature, and the vessel is supposedly difficult for the enemy to spot, let alone target. The ship is nonmagnetic and hard to detect via sonar, making it ideal for infiltration and surveillance of enemy areas.”
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It’s been said by historians, that the only thing JFK will be remembered for in the future, is his pledge to land men on the Moon within a decade. That’s it, nothing else. He didn’t know if it would happen, or if it could be done, but he made the pledge. Any politician can make a pledge. Matter of fact, they all make promises. JFK just got lucky that it came true (under a different administration - Nixon’s). Why bring up Obama? He and JFK are similar. Libs fawn over them, lavish honors on them (like a Nobel prize on Obama), giving them credit where it isn’t due. If JFK had this Ghost Navy warship, he probably would have wrecked it on some bridge while drunk and got some young woman drowned.
I was never a fan of JFK but he is by a great margin, better than Obama. In fact, even Jimmy Carter was better than Obama and that is saying something as Jimmy was easily the worst until Obama.
JFK did not honor the presidency or his marriage vows. I remember Hugh Sidey say that, and Sidey liked him.
Kennedy pulled the rug out from under the Cuban exiles who tried to over throw Castro. We had promised air cover then pulled out leaving them stranded.
Kennedy also appointed some awful supreme court judges tho one of them, Whizzer White eventually turned a little bit conservative.
It was really not a very exclusive club.
JFK is quoted by Traphes Bryant as saying to a friend, “I’m not through with a girl till I’ve had her three ways.”
“Heroics” is a pejorative term.
Leaving aside the question of how heroic JFK really was, the correct word in this context is “heroism,” not “heroics.”
45 posts in this thread about a potential new Navy war craft and
22.5 are about John F. Kennedy;
3 about Marilyn Monroe;
4 mocking the boat;
4 about a Jap Aircraft carrier;
5 that made no sense and just
6.5 posts about the actual subject of the thread.
I’ve seen sketches of the Montanas but never the model. Would have been cool if constructed but they were not necessary of course.
They cancelled the last two Iowas but I have the idea that one of the power plants went into the SS United States.
NEVER, repeat: NEVER get into any type of conveyance with a Kennedy or their kin.
It’s hard to detect via sonar.
Is that so that it will sink quietly?
Bizarre isn’t it, plane, auto, surface ship, nothing.
Sci-Fi B *flick*? That looks like Ark II from a half-assed Sci-Fi Saturday morning kid’s show!
That’s not a ship. That’s a boat. Boats are what ships carry.
Defective joint in the armor plate where upper and lower sidebelts met.
(USS Skate was the one who almost bagged her.)
And they had a philosophy of making the armor a structural member and part of the superstructure much like a wall joist.
U.S. ship armor was analogous of hung drywall.
So when the armor joint failed, it threatened to collapse the structure around it.
The advantage of doing it the way they did it: saved weight and space.
IJN Shinano had a defect that sent an I beam like a battering ram, bashing a hole from one boiler room to the next.
Even better, her watertight doors were rumored to be incomplete.
Talk to the mind numbed author, one “Keith Griffin” who had the following fart to say:
“ John F. Kennedy became famous because of his heroics on the PT 109. Maybe he could have become commander of the universe if he piloted the Navy warship of the future.”
Truthfully, that is the dumbest thing ever.
Get your Porsche run down by a pontiac parisienne and see if you get called heroic afterwards.
Let alone capable of “becoming commander of the universe”
So yes, mocking JFK and his inability to pilot a speedboat out of harms way is somewhat pertinent.
Err...among his other non-accomplishments was committing the United States to land a man on the Moon and safely return him before the decade was out.
Reminds me of the old PHMs, but without the 76mm or ASMs. An interesting propulsion testbed for sure, but some of the stated abilities seem to seriously overhyped.
And why does the name Gerry Anderson keep popping into my head?
No, the boilers and engines from the cancelled Iowas went to the four ships of Sacramento class AOEs.
Boats are black and sink.
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