Posted on 01/20/2018 6:28:55 PM PST by Rebelbase
USS Little Rock (LCS-9), the latest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship to join the fleet, is iced in on the St. Lawrence Seaway in Montreal and doesn’t plan to move until the Spring thaw.
“Significant weather conditions prevented the ship from departing Montreal earlier this month and icy conditions continue to i
ntensify,” a Navy spokesperson told USNI News. “The temperatures in Montreal and throughout the transit area have been colder than normal, and included near-record low temperatures, which created significant and historical conditions in the late December, early January timeframe.”
A sustained blast of Arctic air that extended from late December into January caused ice to form faster than normal within in the Seaway, according to the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp., the agency established by the Canadian government to manage the Seaway. The Seaway closed for the season on January 11. Typically, the Seaway is open between March and December.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
The USA should have ice breakers that can plow the ice like a Kansas field. Part of the future of military doctrine should be control of the caps and cold sea lanes.
The USN can't deal with sea mines also.
I don’t see what the problem is. According to the global warming theology, the area should have balmy, tropical temperatures these days. The ice is obviously a figment of someone’s imagination.
I read on gCaptain that “She apparently ingested debris on her way from Buffalo to Port Colborne and laid by in the Welland for repairs.” Then the ice came in.
No problem. Gorebal Worming will have this straightened out in no time.
Remember, only 22 more hours before it’s too late for humanity...
(Okay, I might be fudging a bit...)
No weather forecasters in the USN?
Well we had 8 yrs of Obummer screwing up the military & forcing out good people while promoting his own people in to the ranks.
Al Gore! Where is the global warming and eradication of the polar ice cap you promised? We’re disappointed, very disappointed. For all your numbers we can’t see it looking out the window.
No...affirmative-action.
No...affirmative-action.
So it’s iced-in stuck because of Global Warming?
Color me unsurprised.
Just wait until next week. Global warming will free it up.
Maybe it is because they want to do homage to Central High School, Woolworth’s lunch counter (where I had many a meal), and the Clinton Lie-brary!
Since when is the US Navy fielding combat ships smaller than Coast Guard Cutters?
That isn’t a ship. It is a big boat.
New ship, New Navy, New way of doing things. Who’s got time to worried about the weather when it takes 15 minutes to figure out whicht head to use and if the uniform of the day is skirt or pants?
lol
The Pentagon has been issuing reports about how global warming is the greatest threat to our national security.
The CO probably was just following orders and believed it.
So, the Seaway is also typically impassable for January and February...seems more like bad planning if they wanted it available now....
The US Navy currently only operates THREE conventionally powered icebreakers:
USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) (1977-2006, 2013-; in service - Heavy Class. Able to break through ice up to 21 feet (6.4 m) thick by backing and ramming, and can steam continuously through 6 feet (1.8 m) of ice at 3 knots (5.6 km/h);
USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) (2000-; in service) - Medium class. Technologically advanced ship/only ship capable of operating in the Arctic/able to break 4.5 ft (1.4 m) of ice continuously at 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) or ice 10 ft (3.0 m) thick when backing and ramming, and can operate in temperatures as low as minus 50°F;
USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30) (2006-; in service - Operates on the Great Lakes only/a jinxed ship to boot).
Russia operates two nuclear powered Arktika class ice breakers:
the Yamal (1992 -);
50 Let Pobedy (2007 -);
Two Taymyr class nuclear powered ice breakers:
Taymyr (1989 -)
Vaygach (1990 -);
Three LK-60Ya class nuclear powered ice breakers:
Arktika (2019 - (planned); under construction);
Sibir (2020 - (planned); under construction);
Ural (2021 - (planned); under construction)
Diesel-powered icebreakers
Project 97 (including variants):
Ivan Kruzenstern (1963-; ex-Ledokol-6
Yuriy Lisyansky (1965-; ex-Ledokol-9)
Buran (1966 -)
Semyon Dezhnev (1971-)
Ermak class:
Ermak (1974 -)
Admiral Makarov (1975 -)
Krasin (1976 -)
Kapitan M. Izmaylov class:
Kapitan M. Izmaylov (1976 -)
Kapitan Kosolapov (1976 -)
Kapitan Sorokin class
Kapitan Sorokin (1977 -; fitted with Thyssen-Waas bow in 1991)
Kapitan Nikolaev (1978 -; rebuilt in 1990)
Kapitan Dranitsyn (1980 -)
Kapitan Khlebnikov (1981 -)
Kapitan Chechkin class
Kapitan Chechkin (1977 -)
Kapitan Plakhin (1977-)
Kapitan Chadaev (1978 -)
Kapitan Krutov (1978 -)
Kapitan Bukaev (1978 -)
Kapitan Zarubin (1978 -)
Magadan class
Magadan (1982 -)
Mudyug (1982 -)
Dikson (1983 -)
Kapitan Evdokimov class
Kapitan Evdokimov (1983 -)
Kapitan Babichev (1983 -)
Kapitan Chudinov (1983 -)
Kapitan Borodkin (1983 -)
Avraamiy Zavenyagin (1984 -)
Kapitan Mecaik (1984 -)
Kapitan Deminov (1984 -)
Kapitan Moshkin (1986 -)
Karu (1988 -; ex-Karhu, ex-Kapitan Chubakov; purchased from Finland)
Tor (2000 -; purchased from Sweden)[41]
Dudinka (2006 -; ex-Apu; purchased from Finland)
Project 21900/21900M
Moskva (2008 -)
Sankt-Peterburg (2009 -)
Vladivostok (2015 -)
Murmansk (2015 -)
Novorossiysk (2016 -)
Ilya Muromets (2017 -)
Aleksandr Sannikov (2018 - (planned); under construction)
Andrey Vilkitsky (2018 - (planned); under construction)
Ob (2018 - (planned); under construction)
Viktor Chernomyrdin (2019 - (current estimate); under construction)
As you can see Russia has won the ice breaking contest by the sheer volume of ships, and we could ask them to sell us a few since we are not making them anymore. And we could assign that newly purchased ex-Russian ice breaker to follow any US navy ships visiting cold water ports in the winter.
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