This is the Navy Warship of the Future

BoldRide ^ | October 12, 2014 | Keith Griffin

[weezel]

jfk heroics? As the captain of the only PT boat ever run over by a much heavier, bigger, slower and louder japanese destroyer?

While he and his crew lay passed out on the deck from drinking torpedo juice? The high proof alcohol used to power torpedoes?

[weezel]

BUT WAIT!! Doesnt NIXON get credit for that, kinda like obama gets credit for team 6 taking out osama, like GW Bush told them to years before?

[johniegrad]

You forgot “can’t drive”.

[johniegrad]

Oops. Never mind.

[Cvengr]

It won’t survive well in rough seas, lacks the space for adequate replenishment requiring significant logistical resupply, and doesn’t present much in the way of armament.

Nice launch to get from ship to shore in the harbor.

[Rockpile]

You are right about the engines except that it was two ships. Looked them up this morning—— Sacramento got half of the Kentucky engine plant and Camden got the other half.

[ops33]

You know, I had always thought JFK was awarded the Navy Cross and that your post was incorrect. A brief search showed that his decoration wasn’t the Navy Cross but the medal you described. Thanks for correcting a misperception.

[ansel12]

It’s amazing isn’t it, I served with a guy who was awarded the Soldiers medal and it is something to be proud off, I would have been proud of it, but it sure isn’t what we have all thought that JFK was awarded for all of these generations of us that thought that he was among the ranks of big time WWII combat heroes.

Heck, LBJ was awarded the Silver Star.

[eartrumpet]

Heck, LBJ was awarded the Silver Star.

And?

Johnson's biographer, Robert Caro, stated, "The most you can say about Lyndon Johnson and his Silver Star is that it is surely one of the most undeserved Silver Stars in history, because if you accept everything that he said, he was still in action for no more than 13 minutes and only as an observer. Men who flew many missions, brave men, never got a Silver Star."

[X Fretensis]

Thanks

[Lazamataz]

This is the Navy Warship of the Future

No. It's not.

[shotgun]

“Who the hell is John F. Kennedy?”

Marty Mcfly’s grandfather in Back to the Future , November 1955

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The ship is nonmagnetic

Cool.

[ansel12]

I know, it was fake, and JFK should have been charged, not rewarded.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

And improved on it, when sea shepherd got their boat run down, it was like getting your brand new corvette rammed by a Yugo diesel.

It must be on YouTube somewhere. It's very satisfying.

[Darksheare]

Oh yes, it is on youtube.
And the hippies comment on it in lame attempts to claim that the lumbering 24 knot Shonan Maru 2 somehow super speed attacked the Earthrace speedboat.
Kinda like the Chinese claim that the p3 Orion somehow dogfight maneuvered itself into Wrong Wei’s jet.

[sheana]

That’s so cool! I was recently looking at power cats, they are cool too. Problem is they are very wide and most marinas are not set up for them except for end ties. They’re very efficient.

[RinaseaofDs]

The USCG had four SES (Surface Effect Ships) down in Key West at one time. Not sure if they are still a part of the fleet.

If this is an armored personnel carrier for the sea, I’d be nervous being delivered in it.

[tanknetter]

The Japanese realized there was a real defect in it’s armor and put it in dry dock to correct it. I have no idea what it was.

IIRC there were two basic problems with the Yamato-class armor. First, the armored box/citadel was too rigid. Second the armor itself was pretty brittle.

There's a big chunk of Yamato-class armor on display at the Navy Yard in Washington DC. It had been use for penetration tests by the 16" 45 caliber armor piercing shells used on the North Carolina and South Dakota-class battleships (the Iowas mounted 16" 50 caliber rifles, which could fire a "super-heavy" AP shell).

In looking at the armor section, from a distance you notice that it's been penetrated through by the round. But when you get close up you see that the section has also been severely fractured/spider-webbed by the hit. Which is much worse than the section just being penetrated.

[JimRed]

He displayed his ability during the “Bay of Pigs” fiasco.

There never was an explanation of why the promised air cover was never authorized.