Analyst: Surface Navy Needs Revamped Payloads for Offensive Warfare

Sea Power Magazine ^ | November 17, 2014 | RICHARD R. BURGESS

[sukhoi-30mki]

Possible Lockheed Martin proposal for the SSC

[GeronL]

bump

[batterycommander]

The 57MM peashooters on the front of the boat are worthless.

[Ken522]

There was an article posted yesterday about the US Navy putting a laser system on an amphibious command and control vessel - given the costs involved it seems like a good idea, as long as the thing remains operational during a conflict.

[DakotaGator]

...the Navy needs a short-term — meaning by 2025 — adjustment in its weapon payloads and modifications to some ships to enable the fleet to survive cruise missile swarm attacks and be able to take the offensive to achieve sea control.

Very telling. This describes when and how the Red Chinese what to engage the US Navy and win.

[Army Air Corps]

...as long as the thing remains operational during a conflict.

Make sure that the WAM doesn't overheat.

[jz638]

The US Navy is in need of some serious funding cutbacks. Any military that had enough money to blow on the LCS program has far too much money. Does the USN need more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world... combined? Maybe a tighter purse will have some clarifying effects on spending priorities.

[Mariner]

"Clark also said the only affordable option for the Small Surface Combatant (SSC) program is a modified littoral combat ship (LCS)"

That tells yu all you need to know about this guy.

He knows jack.

Rather, he DOES know...but is being paid by some very rich Defense Contractors.

[smokingfrog]

We want mo-betta rockets.

[musicman]

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[Taxman]

I don’t know how to post a picture, but if someone would please go to http://www.supertightstuff.com/03/19/pictures/picture-of-the-day-pictures/potd-battleship-broadside/ and post this picture, it might send a message to the Surface Fleet Commanders!

[wjcsux]

Little Crappy Ships (LCS). Upgrade the existing CG’s and DDG’s.

[wjcsux]

Clark also said the Navy needs a longer-range anti-submarine weapon than the Vertical-Launch Antisubmarine Rocket, which has a range of only 12 nautical miles.
I worked on a program called Sea Lance in the late 80's. Sea Lance was developed by Boeing to replace ASROC. Sea Lance had significantly more capabilities than Vertical Launch ASROC had. Sea Lance was going to be used in the Los Angeles Class submarines as well as on the CG's and DDG's. Senator John Glenn (RAT-OH) led the charge to kill Sea Lance to protect Goodyear Aerospace (the ASROC contractor) in Akron.

[PIF]

USS Iowa fires a full broadside of nine 16 inch (406 mm) / 50 caliber cannons and six 5 inch (127 mm) / 38 caliber guns

[TalonDJ]

Yeah. When an analysis says nothing but ‘buy more of what is already in the pipeline’ you should see where his paychecks are coming from.

[Taxman]

That’s it!

Thanks!

When you really, really need gunfire support, you really, really need a battleship!

[PIF]

You are welcome. If you are using Firefox just right click on the image and look for "View image info". This brings up a panel with all the images in a post. Copy the address you want. then where http:xxx.xxx is the file address you copied to the clipboard pasted between the . and there you are. Not sure if you did it right? Click Preview. If the image appears then you did it right.

[Taxman]

Thanks, again. I’ll give it a shot.

[Taxman]

Well, I tried, and this is what I got:

http://www.supertightstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/battleship-shockwave.jpg

Got the URL, but no pic?

What did I do wrong?

[PIF]

You used the tag <a href=” instead of <img src=”

You used the html that designates a link to an image, but not the image itself.

img src causes the image to be “taken” so to speak from wherever it resides on the web and be represented somewhere else.

a href references a particular spot in a page or another site.

You likely tried to drag and drop - that will not work, you actually have to type the html.