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Germany to get new air defense system, battleships
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 9 June 2015 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/09/2015 9:14:51 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I forgot the Kentucky I have been on board the New Jersey as a kid brother in law was in the navy and i visit the Iowa often its local to us Last one Wisconsin When we were in pearl we ran out of time to go on board the Missouri


21 posted on 06/09/2015 9:34:25 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: al baby

The new US Zumwalt-class destroyers are 600 ft long and displace almost 15,000 tons. Big and powerful for a destroyer. They cost more than $3.5B a piece.

The USS Iowa displaced 45,000 tons. Three times as much as the Zumwalt. Building 4 battleships for $8B?

Hmmmmm


22 posted on 06/09/2015 9:35:17 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Name all the “Iowa” class BBs, if you can.

What class of BB was designed to supersede the Iowas?

23 posted on 06/09/2015 9:36:17 AM PDT by okie01
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To: ClearCase_guy

That bow makes me nervous I hope its filled with styrofoam like a Boston Whaler


24 posted on 06/09/2015 9:39:13 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Iowa class BB’s include:

BB 61 Iowa
BB 62 New Jersey
BB 63 Missouri
BB 64 Wisconsin
BB 65 Illinois - cancelled prior to completion
BB 66 Kentucky - cancelled prior to completion


25 posted on 06/09/2015 9:39:49 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
My father aboard the USS Iowa, below in an engine room. He is explaining to us how to go from cold boilers to underway step by step. Wonder how many living men can do this?

I doubt many of these spaces are accessible to the public.

26 posted on 06/09/2015 9:41:36 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: al baby

A bow that resembles those of most of the US warships at the turn of the last century.


27 posted on 06/09/2015 9:41:57 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: okie01

Montana class BB was up next after Iowa class BB


28 posted on 06/09/2015 9:42:27 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I thought the battleship concept died in WWII. However, there has been a vast change in the meaning of warship words in relation to their real power. For example I understand that a ship known as a Frigate today has more power than all the Navies of WWII combined. (Nuclear tipped missiles.)


29 posted on 06/09/2015 9:43:16 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: ClearCase_guy; Berlin_Freeper

“Define battleship.” to non military folks today, any boat with a gun on it is a “battleship.”


30 posted on 06/09/2015 9:45:24 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Army Air Corps

Most of those were straight very few reverse rake Those made me nervous too


31 posted on 06/09/2015 9:46:43 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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32 posted on 06/09/2015 9:47:38 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Maybe they’re building them in China.


33 posted on 06/09/2015 9:48:31 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Last Dakotan

Very cool we are losing those men and history was talking to a kid one day my friend asked him about WW II he said oh yeah with Ben Affleck .....


34 posted on 06/09/2015 9:49:48 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: okie01
Montana Class:

USS Montana, BB 67
USS Ohio, BB 68
USS Maine, BB 69
USS New Hampshire, BB 70
USS Louisiana, BB 71

The Montana Class were to have had 12 big guns on two sets of turrets each side.

They were all canceled in July of 1943.

btw, Although BB 66 was never completed, the bow of the Kentucky was used to repair the bow of the Wisconsin after the Wisconsin was damaged in a collision in 1955.

35 posted on 06/09/2015 9:50:16 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I guess the recent reports that Germany is massing several platoons on the Polish border is nothing to really worry about.


36 posted on 06/09/2015 9:51:41 AM PDT by Larry381 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Berlin_Freeper; MeganC
Oh No!

Not ANOTHER Dreadnought Race!

The Last Time Germany did that it helped spark off The First World War!

37 posted on 06/09/2015 9:51:55 AM PDT by KC_Lion (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! G-d bless you all!)
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To: chajin
Now if the Germans are gonna build this, I say, "Right on".
38 posted on 06/09/2015 9:53:23 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: al baby
Wife and I toured the Missouri at Pearl a couple of years ago on our retirement tour. She had just come out of dry dock with fresh paint and looked like a million bucks.
Interestingly, the ship's interior was a mix of WW II and modern missile equipment, added when the Gipper briefly brought the BBs out of mothballs in the 80s.
39 posted on 06/09/2015 9:54:04 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: chajin; 2banana; MeganC; GraceG
I am going to nitpick this because, well, I am me.

But, That Mascot is based after an Iowa Class Battleship (OR Perhaps The South Dakotas, but the Iowas are more Famous).

While Technically they are Super-Dreadnoughts, The Iowa class was created many many years after the Dreadnought Classes had been replaced by the Fast Battleship Design.

40 posted on 06/09/2015 9:54:30 AM PDT by KC_Lion (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! G-d bless you all!)
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