Sounds nicer than the cruise ships of a generation ago.
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2 posted on
08/26/2018 4:41:42 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
3 posted on
08/26/2018 4:44:51 PM PDT by
samadams2000
(Someone important make......The Call!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why would we buy ships from Italy?
4 posted on
08/26/2018 4:51:30 PM PDT by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
>>The Italian FREMM Alpino comes equipped with no fewer than five espresso machines. (Staff photo by David B. Larter) The Italian FREMM Alpino comes equipped with no fewer than five espresso machines.
We would expect nothing less on an Italian ship!
10 posted on
08/26/2018 5:16:03 PM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sure a far cry from the DD 702 “Hank” that I served on back in 1949.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The crew lives in staterooms, the largest of which are two six-person staterooms for (of course) the Marines and air detachment. Most are four-person staterooms. One-person staterooms are for the embarked admiral, the captain, the executive officer, and the department heads. The rest of the officers are in two and four-person staterooms. The beds are the same throughout the ship. In the two-person staterooms the racks the fold out from the wall, with the bottom rack folding out into a couch. In the four-person staterooms the racks are fixed. Each stateroom has an identical private bathroom, officer and enlisted. Sounds just a wee bit nicer than the living quarters in the Fletcher class destroyer my dad served on in the 1950s.
14 posted on
08/26/2018 6:31:34 PM PDT by
Simon Green
("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Might as well buy from Italy...The U.S. Navy began to resemble Italy’s WWII navy a few decades ago...
20 posted on
08/26/2018 8:28:22 PM PDT by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
My general rule is that if you find something that you like that another country is building; save the big R&D money, have them create a U.S. company if they don’t already have one (many do) and build it here. Probably teamed with other U.S. companies. Saves time and lots of development dollars that can be used elsewhere.
23 posted on
08/26/2018 10:07:09 PM PDT by
Revolutionary
("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
At 27kn as its top speed (a sustainable speed or only for short bursts) can it keep up with the rest of the fleet doing over 30kn? Probably not ...
The Chinese, however, are building some very nice destroyers Type 055 (more in the cruiser class at 13,000mt loaded). 35 Knots top speed. $6B yuan or about US$938m
24 posted on
08/27/2018 2:43:04 AM PDT by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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