Today's US Navy Photos & Videos
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HMS Astute
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HMS Kent escorts USS Carl Vinson in the Gulf
ARABIAN GULF (Dec. 5, 2014) The Royal Navy frigate HMS Kent (F78) cruises alongside the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the region.
ARABIAN GULF (Dec. 5, 2014) The Royal Navy frigate HMS Kent (F78) cruises alongside the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the region.
Now THOSE are just WAY cool photos!
Shades of Apollo...but bigger, better, and newer!
The US is headed back to space and we will make a manned landing on Mars one day. I hope I live to see it!
Thanks my friend! And welcome, weclome! Glad to see you. No one...and I mean no one...does the daily US Navy photos like you do. Period...full stop.
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GREAT pics, Astute!
The Type 23 FFGs are very able ASW escorts for any carrier group...and wothout haveing to dedicate a 9,600 ton DDG to it either. They are also fine multi-role combatants in their own right and great for SAGs or for showing the flag wherever needed.
Now, do not get me wrong...I am glad the US has a whole of Burke DDGs (there will be 75-80 of them before it is all said and done).
Just the same, the US needs to get back to having a good class of twenty-four or so 4,000-4,800 ton FFGs like the Duke class (Type 23) or the future Type 26. We are hoping that the proposed new combatant will fill this role.
If modified, I believe the Freedom class LCS could fill this role too...but they need the new class to be designed from the outset as multi-role combatants designed to go into combat and be able to deal with the likely punishment should it occur.
Thanks Jeff!..
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I don't understand why the Americans are landing their manned space pods in the sea and not on land like China or Russia. Doesn't it cost more to retrieve the pods when they are at sea ?
And its nice to see you back again BD Popeye!
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TerraN_EmpirE
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NASA decided that based on an analysis of the mission profile the ocean gave the best overall safety standards. As landings have occasionally resulted in unexpected issues. There is a story of a Russian crew who came down in Siberia and spent days trapped inside the capsule because of issues with wolves or bears... Could have just been a Russian ladies tea club I am not sure. Anyway after that they issues a survival rifle to all Russian manned flights. Nasa designed the Orion so that in theory it could do either a landing or splash down. In the end they elected for splash down. It makes more sense for NASA as they have the worlds Largest Naval power happy to help.
Space X who is contracted for Commercial Crew on there Dragon V2 by contrast has designed there's for powered landing.
Also for the record the Russians have splash downed a few space launches. Primarily special test vehicles. When they were working on Buran a few early orbital test models that they launched splashed down but were meant to sink. I think the US government recovered one or happened on the Russians recovering one.
Space X who is contracted for Commercial Crew on there Dragon V2 by contrast has designed there's for powered landing.
Also for the record the Russians have splash downed a few space launches. Primarily special test vehicles. When they were working on Buran a few early orbital test models that they launched splashed down but were meant to sink. I think the US government recovered one or happened on the Russians recovering one.
HMS Astute
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WASHINGTON — The decision is in, and it’s split right down the middle.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has accepted the Navy’s recommendation that the design of the small surface combatant (SSC), a more powerful ship to follow the littoral combat ship, will be based on the existing LCS.The decision, laid out in a memo Hagel sent Wednesday to the chief of naval operations (CNO), rules out several choices that included new designs or a version of the Huntington Ingalls patrol frigate.But Hagel — contrary to widespread expectations — did not decide whether the SSC would be based on the Lockheed Martin Freedom class, or Austal USA’s Independence-class ship.