Ships!

[bob48]

And her sister ship, HMS Nelson. Odd due to the position of the 3 main turrets being for'ard (extra points for the nautical term).

I always thought that they looked really powerful. I can remember doing the Airfix kit when I was a kid - 1:600 scale IIRC.

[BanzaiCat]

It does look intimidating. There's a scenario in the game Atlantic Fleet that's a favorite of mine - the Bismark versus the Rodney, another British battlewagon, and a British heavy cruiser. The Rodney looks like she can sink Bismark with just one salvo.

[Windigo]

I was thinking that the Terror was a bit of an odd duck myself.

[bob48]

It was an Erebus Class Monitor, built in WW1.

[mirth]

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18318/shock-trials-or-no-the-navys-newest-supercarrier-is-still-an-unreliable-debacle

[Windigo]

@ BoB

wow that was a rabbit hole...

from HMS Rodney and Nelson to HMS King George V, then a piqued curiousity about fire control systems

Ship gun fire-control systems/directors
Fire Control Tables
Radar, analogue, individualized, centralized, AA firecontrol systems.... good lord!

[bob48]

Fascinating stuff, innit.

[trailrunner]

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18318/shock-trials-or-no-the-navys-newest-supercarrier-is-still-an-unreliable-debacle

I met with two staffers today about these issues.

[Windigo]

Fascinating stuff, innit.

yup, radar was a game changer regarding surface action

[Staggerwing]

Tarantul-class corvette

There's one of those at Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA. She was given to the US by the German Navy after Reunification. If any of you East Coast grogs are down that way you should definitely check it out.

[besilarius]

An article that is a huge fun read.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/baddest.htm

[Staggerwing]

^Don't the Iowas always win?

[mirth]

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/hrnm/education/brick-by-brick.html

[BanzaiCat]

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18318/shock-trials-or-no-the-navys-newest-supercarrier-is-still-an-unreliable-debacle

I met with two staffers today about these issues.

There's a lot of stupid in that article (that the article is revealing, not the writer of it), but what's especially galling are the electrical issues outlines.

There's a serious underlying concern about the ship's main power generation system, as well, which is necessary to keep all of these components running. Before delivering Ford to the Navy, Newport News Shipbuilding reported a failure in a transformer attached to one of the ship's four main turbine generators.

According to the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, the Navy, not wanting to delay getting the ship any further, approved the use of an existing transformer design it already used for other applications as a substitute. It conducted no testing to determine if this component would work properly with the rest of the carrier's electrical systems.

That's...quite literally frigging insane.

[trailrunner]

There's a serious underlying concern about the ship's main power generation system, as well, which is necessary to keep all of these components running. Before delivering Ford to the Navy, Newport News Shipbuilding reported a failure in a transformer attached to one of the ship's four main turbine generators.

According to the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, the Navy, not wanting to delay getting the ship any further, approved the use of an existing transformer design it already used for other applications as a substitute. It conducted no testing to determine if this component would work properly with the rest of the carrier's electrical systems.

I know the details of that incident.  That wound up causing a huge problem that will be fixed when the ship is back in port in April.  And that is going to require some major surgery on the ship and will be very expensive to fix.