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2015-12-23 Home Front: Politix

Has the Navy Wasted Billions on Its New Combat Ship?

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Posted by gorb 2015-12-23 00:26|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Yes. Just like the F-35 is the new Brewster Buffalo.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-12-23 01:30|| 2015-12-23 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 ...In fairness to the Buffalo, when it was in testing it was a superb aircraft. Didn't go south until the Navy started loading it down with things like radios...fuel tanks...guns....

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-12-23 05:06|| 2015-12-23 05:06|| Front Page Top

#3 a vessel designed to be small and speedy in shallow waters close to shore

Use to call those things destroyers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-12-23 08:20|| 2015-12-23 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 S'what happens when the fighter-jock mentality is used in surface warfare.

Posted by Pappy 2015-12-23 08:56|| 2015-12-23 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought the Navy learned their lesson about aluminum when the USS Belknap burned to the main deck after she collided with the Kennedy.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-12-23 09:41|| 2015-12-23 09:41|| Front Page Top

#6
"The vulnerability of the ship's hull to various sea conditions also remains unknown,". That doesn't sound good.

Here's the USS Fort Worth in allegedly heavy seas.

Posted by Matt 2015-12-23 13:18|| 2015-12-23 13:18|| Front Page Top

#7 What BS is that? That's NOT heavy seas. While riding CV66 I've seen Frigates and Destroyers take green water all the way back to the superstructure while practically disappearing, only to POP back up.

Hell, I've sailed rougher than that off the mouth of San Fransisco Bay.

Posted by Vespasian Turkeyneck8688 2015-12-23 20:41|| 2015-12-23 20:41|| Front Page Top

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