Bronezhilet Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel bringing a Bandvagn to the USS Fort McHenry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 another huge Sodak photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flametz Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 Do museum ship photos count? I saw USS Massachusetts posted here earlier. On top of one of the main turrets: ... and underneath it (ammunition carousel?): I got a lot more from my visit there. Jeeps_Guns_Tanks, Bronezhilet, Belesarius and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted April 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 Do museum ship photos count? I saw USS Massachusetts posted here earlier. On top of one of the main turrets: ... and underneath it (ammunition carousel?): I got a lot more from my visit there. Please post them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted April 21, 2016 Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 Please post them. Yes please more battleship pictures!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted April 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 USS Nautilus Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted April 22, 2016 Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 USS Nautilus Do a few of those seamen have a slight glow to them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 3, 2016 Report Share Posted May 3, 2016 More coal to the Coal God! Destroyer "Quick" (Project 956) of the Pacific Fleet crossing under Vladivostok new bridge to the Russkiy island, April 28, 2016. Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted May 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2016 Good god. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted May 3, 2016 Report Share Posted May 3, 2016 Something something Russian navy jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 4, 2016 Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 USS Freedom 19.02.2016. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMinisterofTrueKorea Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 Different direction for today; 1:1 Replica of Nagato made for Tora! Tora! Tora! Collimatrix, Lord_James, Belesarius and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Bada-BOOOOOM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted June 16, 2016 Report Share Posted June 16, 2016 USS Freedom 19.02.2016. if only there was some sort of clean, energy dense power source we could use to keep this from happening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted June 18, 2016 Report Share Posted June 18, 2016 US Submarine screws; http://imgur.com/a/IQBOi Collimatrix, Bronezhilet and Belesarius 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 I was going to object that the LCS seems a little small to put a nuclear plant on, but it turns out that the smallest boat ever to have a nuclear power source was downright twee: Take in all 400 tonnes of the NR-1. The US Navy used this little economy-sized nuclear(!) submarine to fetch wreckage off the bottom of the ocean. Stuff like AIM-54s from crashed F-14s, and other fancy stuff they wanted to grab before the Rooskies did. The crew conditions were apparently horrible. You take a 400 tonne submarine and add to it a nuclear boat's ability to remain at sea for weeks or months... Ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Ah yes, the NR-1, aka Rickover's personal yacht. IIRC it's got one of the smallest and most power dense cores of any reactor design. It's also got some interesting features, such as [redacted] and [redacted], but [redacted] makes it a bit of a pain to [redacted]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 As far as surface ships go, the USN has made some nuclear powered CGNs (Guided missile Cruisers) as early as the 50s, with the 2 classes ranging in the 10,000 tonnes (The 2 California class CGNs, first launched 1970, first commissioned 1974) to 15,000 tonnes range (the sole Long Beach class CGN, launched 1959, Commissioned 1961.) Now, the Long Beach was decommissioned because it was deemed too expensive to keep running, and while both vessel classes are quite a bit heavier then even the already absurdly overweight LCS classes, I'm sure that reactor technology we have now is probably at least a *tad* cheaper and more efficient then 1950s-1970s era designs and capable of being made more compact right?..... ......Colli? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted June 20, 2016 Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 My recollection is that early naval nuclear reactor design was all over the place. They weren't really sure what they were doing in those days. Thing is, good luck ever finding anyone who knows what the improvements actually are. Or someone who knows who will talk. Or figuring it out from any sort of textbook; you can find all sorts of resources on the minutiae of civil boiling water reactor design. Extrapolating that to fast neutron designs seems dubious. So yeah, it's definitely better now, but I'm not sure exactly in what ways it's better now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 Which of these ships is the only USN ship to have sunk an enemy naval vessel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 Not just of those ships, but of the entire US Navy at present too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 Bronezhilet and Belesarius 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted July 2, 2016 Report Share Posted July 2, 2016 Watering the grass on the USS Nimitz LoooSeR and Belesarius 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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