U.S. Warship Pulls Into China Port

Associated Press ^ | U.S. Warship Pulls Into China | AUDRA ANG

[chance33_98]

Guess we won't have as far to shoot now.

[gcruse]

[Mind-numbed Robot]

A Chinese sailor was heard to say, "Would you look at that big S.O.B?"

[Dog Gone]

To be honest, I have no idea what a Destroyer is supposed to do in the modern Navy. That does not look like a scary boat, with one gun up front and a helipad in the back.

[Willie Green]

Guess we won't have as far to shoot now.

Maybe Rumsfeld wants them to get a good look so he can import ships from them in the future.

[red-dawg]

Submarine detection and destruction, but the MOST important job is the protection of the carrier. It is part of a task force and battle group.

[Dog Gone]

So, it's job is principally to protect a flank through early sonar and radar detection?

[Larry Lucido]

From this site:

Features: Destroyers and guided missile destroyers operate in support of carrier battle groups, surface action groups, amphibious groups and replenishment groups. Destroyers primarily perform anti-submarine warfare duty while guided missile destroyers are multi-mission [Anti-Air Warfare (AAW), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), and Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW)] surface combatants. The addition of the Mk-41 Vertical Launch System or Tomahawk Armored Box Launchers (ABLs) to many Spruance-class destroyers has greatly expanded the role of the destroyer in strike warfare.

[Bobibutu]

USS PAUL F. FOSTER is the second ship in the SPRUANCE - class of destroyers.
General Characteristics: Keel Laid: February 6, 1973
Launched: February 23, 1974
Commissioned: February 21, 1976
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, Pascagoula, Miss.
Propulsion system: four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines
Propellers: two
Blades on each Propeller: five
Length: 564,3 feet (172 meters)
Beam: 55,1 feet (16.8 meters)
Draft: 28,9 feet (8.8 meters)
Displacement: approx. 9,200 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots
Aircraft: two SH-60B Seahawk (LAMPS 3)
Armament: two Mk 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight guns, one MK 41 VLS for Tomahawk, ASROC and Standard missiles, Mk 46 torpedoes (two triple tube mounts), Harpoon missile launchers, one Sea Sparrow launcher, one Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) System, two 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Homeport: Everett, Wash.
Crew: approx. 340

[Larry Lucido]

It would also be nice to have one up here on Lake St. Clair to take care of personal watercraft that like to play "chicken" with larger craft.

[red-dawg]

Yes.

[demlosers]

To be honest, I have no idea what a Destroyer is supposed to do in the modern Navy. That does not look like a scary boat, with one gun up front and a helipad in the back.

Dog,
you captain a WW2 era warship -- any WW2 warship, and I'll take an Aegis Destroyer. Hell, you can have two. We'll take them to sea and have a duel.....

Wanna take a guess whose gonna win?

[red-dawg]

The Captain and the crew determines the outcome of ANY battle.

[old school]

``Warm welcome for the United States ship in Qingdao,'' said the spider to the fly!

[Bobibutu]

Right - I had the honor of touring the Abe Lincoln Battle Group in San Diego a few years back - good Lord - the CIC alone rivaled any Hollywood movie set we have ever seen... sitting in the Commanders chair was like being in an iMax Theater and more - these dogs can hunt! Blew my mind - yeah well I'm a former '60's sailor - easily impressed...

[demlosers]

It would take a pretty dumb Aegis destroyer captain to lose against a WW2 relic.

[Mr. Mojo]

Kinda lookls like a old, large fishing vessel.

[Bobibutu]

The quals to be a commander of one of these puppys is immense

Yeah, Jimmy the C commanded a nuke sub and was good at it - lousy politition tho - shud have stuck to subs and peanuts :-)

[demlosers]

Two words:

situational awareness.