Posted on 03/18/2015 2:10:08 PM PDT by naturalman1975
THIS is the wall of grey which residents of Wolloomooloo and Potts Point now wake up to thats if theyve managed to get to sleep.
They say the 27,800 tonne HMAS Canberra has obliterated their views of the harbour, spewed oil fumes into their homes and kept them awake with the groan of engines and generators since it arrived to fanfare in November.
"Its just so depressing ... its all those things and theyre constant, said one resident, Catherine Regan.
But the Department of Defence has confirmed, not only will the 27.5m-high helicopter landing dock stay indefinitely at the Garden Island base, she will be joined by sister vessel NUSHIP Adelaide before the end of the year.
HMAS Canberra was built to give Australia one of the worlds best amphibious deployment systems and was launched before thousands of defence personnel, politicians and members of the public in late November.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...
Unmanned vehicles are also options that are being looked at, as well.
And the deck can be hardened to take the F-35B - the Spanish are doing exactly that with the ship this one is based on. It’s whether we decide to do it or not. At the moment, there’s no specific plan to do so - but it is part of the reason why the ski jump remains even though we don’t need it right now. It gives us more options than a redesign to remove it would have.
These ships are intended to spend decades in service. We don’t even know yet what might eventually be available to fly off them.
Not sure how well that’s going, USN has tried to retrofit for a couple of platforms with mixed success. Likely the deck will have to be replaced with ultra high temp alloys.
If you didn’t check the vid do so cool
I can’t understand what those folks are complaining about. I’d love to have a view of that great ship and of all the ancillary activity it generates. Forget the harbor.
Canadian airforce is looking at acquiring these as well, and it’s not a good move. Heck, Sukhoi makes better stuff. We’d be better served with a super hornet even.
no, checking Google Images, the Yarra had a shorter mainmast. It's the Parramatta
It is only likely to be seriously considered once the F-35B has entered US service and we can see whether or not it works or not. I hope it does - partly because I would like to see Australia get back into the carrier game (when I joined the RAN, it's where I wanted to serve more than anything else, not dreaming we'd lose the capacity) and partly because if the F-35 doesn't work, it's going to mean a lot of money has been wasted, and a real hole in capabilities for us and some of our closest allies.
we were told it was the Canberra over the 1MC (Ship’s loudspeaker)
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These complainers must be related to the person who called me a baby killer when my ship docked there in 1993.
Indeed, Harry's is still there.
Harry's Cafe de Wheels - a Sydney icon.
I have fond memories of receiving sailors back on board who had had a little bit more to drink than they really should have, and had been told that buying the duty Officer and duty Chief a pie would hopefully lead to a blind eye being turned to their transgression. I wound up with quite a large pile of pies.
By the way - having just looked at your profile page, have you ever read David Feintuch’s “Seafort Saga”? They might have some appeal for you, given the novel you’ve mentioned you are writing.
Probly all kinds of hi-tech kickass on that thing but it is a butt ugly ship.
But I was also incorrect. Not the Parramatta which also had a lower mainmast (I shoulda checked that) Only 4 Type 12s had a LW02 Radar high mounted on the foremast. The mainmast makes this one of the second pair, either HMAS Stuart or HMAS Derwent.
I previously ruled them out because I thought they had the portside upperdeck extended all the way to the stern when the Ikara SUWM system was fitted. Apparently that happened later
HMAS Derwent with Ikara but upperdeck not yet exteded to stern
Derwent is the one in the background :<)
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