Posted on 08/16/2019 6:47:44 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The ship shuddered.
The roar of the ventilators in the galley quit as Joseph Sellar, a stocky 25-year-old Coast Guard culinary specialist from New Hampshire, watched seawater explode from the ceiling.
"Are we sinking?”
Crew members scour eBay for discontinued replacement parts. A petty officer who used a surfboard repair kit to fix a generator, saving the ship from encroaching ice, received an award from the Coast Guard commandant.
A $62 million repair job resurrected the Polar Star, but the years sitting idle meant its machinery and wiring would never be the same.
Two days after the flood that destroyed the oven, engineers smelled smoke coming from an old Westinghouse electrical panel in the ship’s main control room.
Peeling open the metal cabinet, they found the culprit: a burned-out coil the size of a coffee can. Without it, the port propeller was useless.
...the next day, the desalination unit quit again, forcing the crew to skip laundry and limit showers to two minutes.
“If you don’t mind, it don’t matter,” Jopling liked to say. The leak and repair had halted the ship for more than 30 hours.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldmailmedia.com ...
When you see it, give the screen a one-finger salute and forget it!
The U.S. military all on its own has seldom set its spending priorities. Massive amounts of U.S. military hardware funding is the result of Congressional horse trading over whose constituents are getting military contracts.
TRUE and PURELY military priority takes a back seat to all that.
TRUE and PURELY military priority takes a back seat to all that.
True.
But HOPEFULLY better than the old five-year plan?
‘Even so, Coast Guard commanders and allies in Congress say the U.S. will need more icebreakers as climate change reshapes the polar regions. Enough ice has melted to open Arctic shipping lanes — at least seasonally — as well as areas that hold rare-earth metals and perhaps a quarter of the earth’s undiscovered oil and gas.’
So, according to this paragraph, you need more ice breakers because global warming has melted ice creating Arctic shipping lanes. Got it.
Lol! Good catch.
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When it's swinging a propeller (airplane or boat), horsepower is meaningless because then it's torque that hauls the mail.
horsepower is meaningless
Not exactly.
If you know one, you can determine the other.
HP has a time element.
Torque does not.
HP = Torque x RPM ÷ 5252
‘Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. ‘ Archimedes
Old Arc would be putting out massive torque/not much HP.
Yes, still likely better than “the old five year plan”.
But, if I were a dictator (LOL), “jobs” and every form of “economic impact” would have zero to do with where and why military expenditures were allocated. The military priorities would be 100% based on the best priorities for the military alone, within a given budget. And “military need” would not come from the defense industry offering cushy jobs in retirement to the officers who will push the buying of their stuff when they are still in uniform. The military need needs to be the needs of the military, not the needs of the defense armaments industry. Lastly, even the military has to be held responsible to NOT treat military choices of hardware as time for Christmas presents. They would not get the fanciest just ‘cause they wanted it, if the mission is very well achieved without it.
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