“the smoke is normal for a 30 year old ship, that runs on diesel fuel”. BS, was snipe on a 30 year old tin can, we make smoke like that was f**k up. Fuel/air ration wrong, Captain starts chewing ass. Only smoke that should be visible from her stack is a slight brown wisp, we called an economy haze. She uses pressure fired boiler, with super chargers, sort like our Garcia class in the 60s/70s. Super chargers were constant source of problems for us then and I suspect that is source of the Ruskies problems now.
Things like this illustrate how American leaders have betrayed us for the sake of get-a-long globalism. Literally all we had to do to maintain ourselves as the sole superpower of the world was keep our own 30+-year-old tech and not screw it up. Our carriers from the 70s would eat this thing for breakfast. Our tanks from the 80s still eat the world’s armor all day long. Our planes from the 80s and 90s, properly updated, are still cock of the roost. However, we’ve sunk countless trillions into military boondogles (both ops and equipment) that did nothing for us, and our diplomacy has been lacking since forever. Now it is the Russians flexing muscle while we trace construction blueprints for more expensive planes and ships. And SOME in America are happy that we’ve lost our supremacy in the world. Frankly it is easier not being the leader...so mission accomplished. We are now leading from behind, eating the smoke of this antiquated ship.
Yep. I wondered who else was going to catch that. Pressurized steam, eight boilers, four shafts, and if you’re smoking like that somebody’s going to get reamed. They love it when you blow stacks in port, too...