Aw damn. That sucks! I will be able to go to the ones in Texas next year baring COVID of course
Warship Appreciation Thread
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I found this video very interesting.
Just another pic of my old ship from the Jurassic Era.
She's a beauty. What happened to her?
Aaron Fox
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Age if I'm not mistaken. A major reason why the USN is in something of a ripe state, a lot of ships had to go to the breakers because of age and inability to upgrade... just when the Cold War ended.
Sadly they made her a reef a few hundred miles off the coast of SC.
gral
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The Spruances were also used hard, and supposedly were in worse condition than their age would indicate(especially their reduction gearing).
Aaron Fox
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Yeah, it was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad. Then again, by the end of the Cold War, Congress was getting back to its old 'fuck the military budget' shenanigans...
gral
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The story with their reduction gearing actually was a project problem, from what I've heard. Spruances were designed with 80,000 shp plants, composed of 4 LM2500 turbines. Except that GE managed to make the LM2500 a 25,000 shp turbine by the time the ships were being built, which meant the ships were built with reduction gears built for 25% more hp than the power plant was able to deliver. This, in turn, meant the reduction gears would be heavily strained whenever the ships went full power, which, after 25 to 30 years, was a lot of times. Thus them being way more worn out than their age would indicate.
Aaron Fox
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... damn, talk about communication problems...
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Well in this case it was moreso that gas turbines technology advanced way faster than anticipated
Doomsought
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With energy weapons a bit closer than the horison, maybe we will see a return of turbo-electric drive trains. While not quite as efficient as gearboxes, they are much cheaper and easier to repair.
Aaron Fox
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True that...
Now for another fictional ship:
The Jormungand class Blue Water Cruiser. Two triple-barreled Long Tom turrets, two Twin-PPC/AC-10 combination turrets, a twin LRM-20 turret, a forward pair of LRT-20s, and three pairs of SRT-6 launchers in fore-sides and aft positions (and enough ammo to last quite a while for all weapons) make up its principal armament and it also includes a refrigerated cargo bay (745 ton rated capacity), a regular cargo bay (3696 ton rated capacity), a helipad, two light vehicle bays, two field kitchens, a MASH unit with eight operating theaters, and twelve tons of communications equipment.
CASE is integrated into the design in later variants.
It has a top speed of 97.2km/h (or almost 52.5 knots), has a cruising speed of 64.8km/h (or just shy of 35 knots), and is powered by a fusion engine. It is also a Trimaran design, which is quite unusual in all honesty. It's basically a blue-water cruiser designed for naval patrols, being a flagship, a mobile hospital, and fire support. Sure if a space warship decided to say hi, it'll die, but in all honesty, by the time it was commissioned, there were no officially combat-capable warships, and having something that would use the vast oceans of various planets would be nice to have available.
It is a rarity that you see sensible fictional blue-water ships in fiction...
And we had to go to Flank speed a few times when covering the Carriers on the High Seas. Specifically the Independence and the Enterprise.
gral
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It's already back - Integrated electric propulsion - Wikipedia
Doomsought
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In civilian ships, but I haven't heard of it being used on warships since the 20s when matalurgy hadn't quite caught up to making mechanical gearboxes for turbines.
gral
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It's being put into production for warships.
Israel's brand new Saar 6 class frigate.
Aaron Fox
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Given that we're starting to reach the fun era where sensor density is, effectively, 'yes'... those stealth features are going to be needed.Israel's brand new Saar 6 class frigate.
In all seriousness, we might see fictional ships become reality...
Like this thing or the Battletech blue-water cruiser...
