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2006-11-19 Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Navy battles Tamil Tiger boats at sea

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Posted by Fred 2006-11-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Re, Your Picture
All of thise ships sitting in that pretty line are sporting identical Camo paint jobs.
Pretty stupid.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-11-19 09:01|| 2006-11-19 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Mister Jim, that there is either TF 38 or TF 58. Noone fucked with it. Last folks that tried, died. Camo? Hell Spruance turned on the landing lights to speed recovery during the Marianna Turkey Shoot. Those in other words are the big boyz, the bad doods, Gawds own killers.

I think it TF 38 with Halsey in Ulithi.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-19 12:20|| 2006-11-19 12:20|| Front Page Top

#3 RJ:
Typically in that era, the paint jobs were not so much to make a ship invisible as to make it appear much longer or shorter or give a false appearance of its speed, to try to confuse sub targeting.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-11-19 12:24|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-11-19 12:24|| Front Page Top

#4 That's "Murders' Row in Ulithi anchorage.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-11-19 12:35|| 2006-11-19 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Here's another shot of TF38 turning into the wind for a launch on the home islands of Japan. 90 miles NW of Tokyo.....

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-19 12:43|| 2006-11-19 12:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Shipman: TF38 was in the Phillipines under Rear Admiral Cliton Sprague in fall of 1944

Posted by badanov 2006-11-19 12:47|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-11-19 12:47|| Front Page Top

#7 This is in August of 1945, or so the link said.

And I expect you're thinking of Taffy 38? An amphibious support group.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-19 13:00|| 2006-11-19 13:00|| Front Page Top

#8 The United States built, manned, trained, and fielded more than 100 carriers during World War II, including almost 60 "jeep" carriers used for ASW work and support. Now we're down to a dozen in a war where we NEED carrier air groups for forward bombardment. I'd also like to see a dozen or so new-construction battleships for pounding the he$$ out of shore installations. There's nothing else like parking a volkswagen-size arty shell in someone's living room for getting his attention.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-11-19 16:04|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-11-19 16:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Shipman, technically we're around 20-24 if you include the LHDs and LHAs that are basically everyone elses normal fullsize carrier.

Posted by Valentine 2006-11-19 16:39|| 2006-11-19 16:39|| Front Page Top

#10 It's not so much the numbers, but the American unwillingness to fully use them. For instance, the 40 fleet + light carriers have about the same tonnage as current US fleet carriers. Though the 80 or so WWII escort carriers have twice tonnage of the 12 current LHAs+LHDs.

Battleships are good for impressing primitives. Not so good for destroying enemies armed with long range antiship missiles.

Posted by ed 2006-11-19 16:47|| 2006-11-19 16:47|| Front Page Top

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