Sea trials
Thank God for gyroscopes.
A turn.
Looks like a sharp left turn. That baby is moving.
I’m not a seaman. But I have read some stuff on Sea Trials and commissioning. They test everything, Full speed “hard to port” and Full speed “Hard to Starboard” is part of the process. And full speed for those big ships is quite stunning. Look it up on You tube. It’s pretty impressive.
Who doesn’t want a Nuke Mr. Fusion to power the compound?
Looks like a rudder test.
Hard a port.
That’ll clean all the loose stuff of the deck.
It is exercising high speed turns. When I was on the JFK, after it came out of the yards from repairs following the Belknap collision, they did one of those maneuvers. You get time to prepare for it, they don’t just spring it on you.
Well, I was doing mess duty in the Chief’s Mess (a good place to do it if ya gotta do it!) and they commenced one of the turns.
We fouled up, and didn’t properly secure one of those metal cabinets on wheels that has all the plates in it on some kind of spring mechanism the pushes a new plate to the top when one is taken off. When the ship took that heel, that thing went flying across the empty Chief’s mess and slammed into a bulkhead...there were broken plate fragments everywhere.
It was incredible. Nobody got chewed out for it, amazingly enough, but...that thing would have killed someone if it had hit them.
The other thing that stuck out for me was when they did the “Circle William” drills where they seal off all the compartments and cut off the ventilation (which you would do in the case of an NBC attack, Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) I remember it was off for a long time, it got pretty hot, sticky, and stuffy, and when they turned everything back on, it definitely was an honest to goodness breath of fresh air!
FWIW, they will turn full speed into a torp or missle spread when they know they will be hit.
They will turn to take advantage of the wind for take-off. If they need to launch an emergency alert patrol they could make this turn.
Many reasons to make hard port or hard starboard.
They’re based in San Diego. They were set for a trip to Australia (don’t know purpose); their orders were changed to take the carrier group (includes destroyers and another ship with Tomahawks - not sure of it’s designation) and head for Korea.
News assumptions are that this is just a show of force; a protection of South Korea, and what else we have not been told. This President does tell it’s enemies what we plan to do .. thank goodness.
Rush indicated that China approved of our actions.
Where this will lead, have no idea. I’m just glad to know that none of the NK missiles have ever reached the west coast of America.
Looks like what they do just before they drop a bunker buster thru the center of fatboi’s rice bowl...
Official top speed is “30+” knots. The plus is classified
Bat Turn.
HA! You should experience “Angles-and-Dangles” on a nuke submarine! ;-)
Searving Colombian coffeee in the starboard side galleys ?