Surface Ships Need More Offensive Punch, Outlook

Grey Havoc said:
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Navy identifies three vessels impacted by faulty shipyard weld work

The bad welds are not on components that would impact ship safety or operations, but the Navy said it is reviewing at least 23 potentially impacted ships.
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One suspects that the problem is much worse than the Navy is admitting.
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"Why should I care, I'm not going out to sea on it"

Some (all the expletives deleted) shipyard worked said that on a sub, within earshot of the crew.

Fortunately(?), the Captain also heard him say that and had the worker escorted off before the crew "adjusted his attitude" for him. With the extra large spanners we use to manually run the MBT vent valves.
 
Scott Kenny said:
"Why should I care, I'm not going out to sea on it"

Some (all the expletives deleted) shipyard worked said that on a sub, within earshot of the crew.

Fortunately(?), the Captain also heard him say that and had the worker escorted off before the crew "adjusted his attitude" for him. With the extra large spanners we use to manually run the MBT vent valves.
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EB used to send some of the construction crew out to sea for the first dive. Which should have made them more diligent, but the tales of "lunch hour" at the bars across from the plant in Groton make me suspect it did not quite work as intended.
 
Ozair said:
Long time coming and glad even a basic capability is almost here. I'd hate to have to swap out all the cells at once, would take too long likely right when you needed it...
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Between pulling the old canisters and loading new missiles, it's probably an all-day evolution.
 
Ozair said:
I have visions of old canisters being slugged over the side to speed up the process. Obviously not a peace time practise...
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Problem is that the canister handling rig travels on the UNREP ship and gets high-lined across. Which means the receiving ship has no way to even start pulling the empties until it's alongside. Even if you are dumping them (and why not? Every missile comes with a new canister anyway) it still takes hours to ready the cells to receive new missiles.

Hmm. The planning estimate (earlier in this thread) was that you could strike down 15-20 new missiles per hour using this technique. Generously assume pulling old ones goes twice as fast. A DDG that has emptied half its magazine (48 missiles) might need an hour or more to remove the old ones and another 2-3 hours to reload new. That's actually not as bad as I thought -- only 4 -5 hours plus time to transfer and set up the loading rig, then remove it and return it to the UNREP ship. Maybe 6 hours alongside is everything goes smoothly.
 
TomS said:
EB used to send some of the construction crew out to sea for the first dive. Which should have made them more diligent, but the tales of "lunch hour" at the bars across from the plant in Groton make me suspect it did not quite work as intended.
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The only sub that I questioned the integrity of was Kentucky, which had been built by a bunch of scabs in the 1980s. EB workers went on strike. Whole ship was built by strikebreakers. Shit installed upside down or backwards. Piss poor material condition for a ship that was 10 years old. FFS, the Georgia was older and in better shape!

The west coast Tridents were in very good shape, as shown when the USN realized that they still had 20+ years hull life remaining when an arms treaty insisted that we retire 4. Hence SSGNs.
 
Grey Havoc said:
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How A Small Cap Juggernaut Is Retooling The Power Grid And Helping Navy Ships Avoid Mines

Nearly 14 years ago, Wall Street wrote American Superconductor off for dead after a Chinese customer stole its tech and sales plunged. In the last year, its stock nearly tripled, but some institutions think its comeback may be just beginning.
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In the last 12 months shares of little known Massachusetts-based American Superconductor have soared 276%. No, American Superconductor is not some sizzling hot new AI company. It is an old tech up-and comer, born in the kitchen of an MIT professor almost 40 years ago. It makes specialty wires, and other electronic gear mostly used by power companies and manufacturers— critical infrastructure for the nation’s power grid in the rush toward renewable energy. Its products have been in high demand before, but it has never delivered anything but red ink since its inception as its stock has soared and crashed numerous times over the last 30-plus years. Bullish Wall Street analysts now say the company’s bets on new businesses—like its Ship Protection Systems (SPS) which cloak naval vessels, protecting them from detection and mines—are starting to pay off.
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