Posted on 05/09/2011 7:56:08 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
I’m curious as to the physics of the main guns firing in space. Would it even work at all? Then there’s the reverse thrusters that would be required to counter the motion...
Navy SEALs attend BIW christening of ship named for fallen colleague
Monday, May 9, 2011 2:07 PM EDT
BATH — The Saturday christening ceremony at Bath Iron Works for DDG-112, the future USS Michael Murphy, named for a Navy SEAL who died in Afghanistan in 2005, came less than a week after fellow SEALs killed global terrorist Osama bin Laden. That fact, said U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Gary Roughead, was “not lost on anybody.”
Maureen Murphy, mother of the man repeatedly described Saturday as a “true American hero,” served as the destroyer’s sponsor and broke the ceremonial bottle of champagne on the ship’s hull.
“Today, every American has an appreciation of Navy SEALs, because they carried out a duty that has been at the forefront for a decade,” Gov. Paul LePage told the nearly 1,500 attendees Saturday. “In 2005, Lt. Michael Murphy’s mission was no different. Lt. Murphy and three fellow SEALs headed into the mountains of Afghanistan to protect our freedom.”
Saturday would have been Murphy’s 35th birthday
http://www.timesrecord.com/articles/2011/05/09/news/doc4dc826c5cd7d8335162429.txt
{Scotty voice} “Captain, the reverse thrusters are gone, that last salvo set us on course for the sun, sideways”. {/Scotty voice}
Technically it’s called “Tumblehome.”
Was really marked on French and Russian ships around 1900; didn’t work out so well for the Russians in the Russo-Japanese war; tumblehome hulls are inherently easier to sink.
Honestly we have no use for them. They are some Admiral's pipe dream...or, more likely...a defense contractors' dream.
We need another 30 Burkes AND 120 Frigates in the 5,000 ton class.
We also need 50 additional Subs, 20 5,000 ton nukes and 30 3,000 ton advanced conventional. And, let's not forget we STILL need the planned 30 of the 7,000 ton Virginia Class.
Not to mention it's time to start rebuilding the Trident Fleet.
12 Active Carriers is enough.
Nothing spells calm, stable times like the US Navy. After all, it's only the US Military that gives ANY value to the dollar today. And it's the US Navy that projects power and influence, every day, day after day...unchallenged...and worldwide.
If you owned a whole galaxy in some weird future, you would call on the US Navy to secure the free flow of commerce within it.
$3 billion for a single destroyer is insane. In an era of increasingly accurate and destructive anti-ship missiles, no admiral will dare put one at serious risk. A Navy you can’t send into harms way is no Navy at all.
who says they are projectile weapons? They may be laser beams, or ion beams, which deliver significant energy with minimal momentum.
Cool pic.
I would like to calculate the DDG 1000 cost in oz Au, and compare it to Dewey’s flagship.
So much has been debased by 98 years of Federal Reserve.
Dewey’s flagship, Olympia was a cruiser: The contract specified a cost of $1,796,000, at ~17 dollars to the ounce of gold would be 100,000 oz Au. At 1500 dollars per oz gold that would be 150,000,000. So you are right that DDG 1000 would be a lot more expensive even considering inflation.
It must be those new fangled radios and radars, to go along with the metric million bureaucrats that have to be supported.
Aside from submarines, manned warships seem increasingly anachronistic in the age of drones.
We drive past BIW every summer on our way up for vacation. I always like to sneak as long a peak from the bridge without causing a major accident. The ships they have docked there are pretty impressive.
With Obama in charge, those 5500 better have their resumes out.
Mike
Tumblehome is applicable to the hull sides where they bend inward past vertical to meet the deck. I am not aware of this arcane term being applied to the bow profile. But who knows. It’s an arcane subject.
sucks in past vertical on the upper hull sides.
Not sure about use or misuse of this term for bow and stern profiles. Transoms and sterns are normally called bluff or vertical, clipper, reverse, etc. I think tumblehome is only properly used for hull sides to deck. But this may be a case of the infiltration of "wrong usage" into common vernacular and then wide acceptance. An example of this is "run the gantlet" being wrongly written "run the gaunlet." This was called out as a misuse for decades, but is now in the dictioary. The linguistic gate keepers threw in the towel. They threw in the gauntlet. Maybe tumble home or tumblehome will come to apply to bows in common usage as well. Another citidel of civilzation breached. Or breeched.
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