In comparison, that is still impressive... The tail rotor is at least 20 ft in diameter. While not larger, it is close. A bit of exaggeration, but I wouldn’t call that hyperbole.

When was the last time America has in all good conscience known what we were doing in regards to anything? We have been largely fortunate, agile enough, or prepared enough to either capitalize on a situation or not get totally fucked by a bad deal.

When ever we try to do something for good or ill the consequences bite…

Not really. I’d just moved to the area. A friend I was with was born there and was moving back, and the people having the cookout were locals. The conversation before we were offered food went something like this.

-Greetings exchanged, and small talk passes.
-Man at Grill- Are you new to the area

No he is not fucking with, someone’s aunt will swear you are trying to show them up, and have their feelings hurt.

Unless you are another black person in an area with a unusually small population of black people this is ill-advised.

Correct... Ultimately I’m working from the hearsay of people I’ve worked with. From what I know that’s a sprinting speed, and the ship could not effectively be integrated in CSG’s. MEU’s may have and may be an easier job.

They are fast for a Battleship, but believe me they are slower than the rest of the fleet.

Excluding strategic capability. BB’s are SLOW. The fleet has gotten faster to try to keep up with the carrier strike force and MEU deployment pace.

I don’t necessarily read the statements as an indictment of women as, “fragile emotional simpletons “, but at the time the psychosomatic study of oncology was seeking numerous cancer risk factors. Stress and mental duress are known complicators of health in many ways.

And not to drag a men vs women thing in here, but…

#cylonsdidit

While true, the Navy still carries out a very large roll as forward bombers for the military, a little cross training for top attacking ships wouldn’t be a far stretch.

Also while many Anti-Ship missiles are set for waterline strikes, top attacking missiles are not unheard of, and with increasing warhead…

This is hearsay and anecdotal evidence, but from some time spent aboard surface warfare ships, my favorite line about Carrier Task Force duty is, “When the shit hits the fan... we’re the slow lame children of the fleet compared to the carriers.”

No simulation is entirely accurate, and assumptions at some point have to be made. You use intelligence to determine expected effectiveness, then you build an envelop around that which increases variance and margins of error. You can then build estimations for best, worst, mixed, and entirely random scenario cases.

In my experience this type of exchange has been a pain...

Was this in something that needed to be shock rated, or was this a static/non mil cabinet?

What ships have we done a full refurbish of what is essentially the whole system architecture? The only one I can think of is the Ticonderoga Class Cruisers, and even that would not be as extensive of a change as what would need to be done to give the Ohio the shot in the arm it would need to keep up with the rest of…

sorta yes and sorta no...

I don’t think I referenced plans of making the SSBNX as a derivative of the Virginia. While yes that was an idea there were sacrifices in performance which were considered untenable for the class. What I did mention was that there would likely be some commonality in subsystem procurements
considering the drastic…

Large yes, Flexible not so much. The computer systems on this thing are still mostly cabinet mounted bespoke systems whose OEM in some cases no longer exist. Mid life refreshes on many of these boats was likely in the early 90’s and wouldn’t have updated these systems.

Also the modifications I mentioned made did not…

Building a “New” Old Ohio would be just as expensive considering that most of the equipment on board is no longer produced, and the setup is far from modular. So basically all new control infrastructure there. We could keep costs low be using a derivative of the reactors from the Virginia’s (which is planned), but…