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2010-07-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

RIMPAC Exercise - Bye-bye USS New Orleans

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Posted by Mercutio 2010-07-15 15:42|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 It speaks well of the construction that it took hours to send her to the bottom. Can you Imagine if she were defending herself and had an escort?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-07-15 17:49|| 2010-07-15 17:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Tough ship. 7 Harpoons, a laser guided bomb from a B-52, and hours of 5" naval gunfire. Took them 4 hours to sink her, with no active DC.

A credit to her builders and the crew that maintained her.

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2010-07-15 19:06|| 2010-07-15 19:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Remember that ordnance load that took her down the next time some cubical winnie talks about how carriers are obsolete.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-07-15 20:24|| 2010-07-15 20:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I suspect that it was also a demonstration for various parties about US ships. That was one tough, onery bugger to put down. Seven anti-ship miisles, plus a 500 lb. bomb, plus an unknown number of hits from five inch guns from about 3 countries? A helicopter carrier to boot. I would have liked to have seen what torp would have done though.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-15 20:35|| 2010-07-15 20:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Not mentioned: perhaps the biggest advantage the US carrier fleet had against Japan in WWII was that of damage control. Time and again, the US was able to save ships that otherwise would have been goners.

In some of the footage of the time, you can see through those ships sideways--through large, gaping holes.

And critically, rebuilding a damaged ship is much faster and cheaper than building a new one.

N.B.: A Harpoon has a 487lb warhead. A Shkval torpedo has a 462lb warhead. The SS-N-22 Sunburn (P-270 Moskit) ship to ship missile, which both Iran and China have, has a 705lb warhead.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-15 22:24|| 2010-07-15 22:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought about those Sunburn's. If they had shot them, they wouldn't release the damage estimates. My guess is - yes, they shot them, and no - we'll never hear the damage estimates, nor should we or our enemies

Posted by Frank G 2010-07-15 22:44|| 2010-07-15 22:44|| Front Page Top

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