We Have A Dreadnought or Two
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet attached to the Jolly Rogers of Strike Fighter Squadron 103 launches Aug. 27 off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, which was operating in the Arabian Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael Singley/Navy)
I did not know that an aircraft carrier was so intimidating to the uninitiated.
From the article: The aircraft carrier is the ultimate refinement of a weapon evolving from oar-powered galleys to wooden vessels that carried acres of sail and three decks of iron cannons to steel-hulled dreadnoughts that fired guns at ranges requiring corrections for the curvature of the earth.
No other warship can launch supersonic aircraft against targets hundreds of miles away, recover them and launch them again, over and over. Capable of making 800 miles a day, it can quickly project power across the globe. – article
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/10/16/aircraft-carrier-ship-of-fear/?utm_source=clavis
I just thought it was one cool ship.
Category: Navy
Last FA-18 flight recently, all replaced by Super Hornets.
Like the Iowa class battleship, projection of pinpoint destruction around the entire sea-faring world like no other nation can currently match. Sadly, the big battleshis are gone (a sad mistake on our part) but the carriers still sail.
The Marines still have quite a few non-Super Hornets in service.
“Mass Communications Specialist.” Is that what used to be Photographers Mate, or something similar? The new rank has an “Okay” sense to it.
Yes, it used to be PH, but was changed by the New Navy.
Torpedoman’S rate back in service now. The firing of cannon balls and modern projectles have to fire to the right or left to be on target depending if you are in the northen or southern hemisphere. It is the earths spin that puts the round to left or right. I’ll most likely here from the TAH cannon cockers over this comment.
Thank You for sharing, Ex.
Was surprised to learn the reference article was written 12 years old:
“This article originally appeared in the April 2007 issue of Military History, a sister publication of Navy Times”.
This 8 Minute Silent film, shot circa 1930, contains footage of aircraft squadrons from the first aircraft carriers of the United States Navy: USS Langley (CV-1), USS Lexington (CV-2), and USS Saratoga (CV-3). Part 1 also features footage of games on the flight deck in celebration of Washington’s Birthday.
“The Attack Carrier: From USS Langley CV1 to USS Enterprise CVAN65.” The color film traces the development and history of aircraft carriers used by the United States Navy. Aircraft that have been used by the Navy, such as the Grumman A-6 Intruder and McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, also are featured. The USS Enterprise is shown at sea at mark 01:14, as several fighters launch from her deck and the narrator flashes back near mark 02:30 to the old wooden USS Langley, the Navy’s first aircraft carrier that had been converted in 1920 from the bulk cargo ship USS Jupiter (AC-3). At mark 04:08 we see Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, known as the architect of naval aviation, who presented the idea of a stronger navy to President Calvin Coolidge and led to the creation of the Langley. At mark 04:50 we see footage of Lieutenant Commander Godfrey de Courcelles Chevalier making the first landing in an Aeromarine 39B. Following a discussion of enhanced airplane design, the film discusses how pilots experimented with various bombing techniques to uncover new methods of attack. At the same time, the navy was developing new doctrine designed around aircraft carriers. The USS Lexington (CV2) and the USS Saratoga (CV3) soon followed with marked improvements over their forefather. By mark 15:00, we are transported to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, and reminded how, thankfully, no aircraft carrier was in the harbor at the time of the Japanese attack, as we see footage from that fateful day. The fact that the Japanese launched their attack from aircraft carriers bolstered claims by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Fleet Admiral William H. Halsey that naval aviation needed to be a major part of the navy’s future. Following several minutes of World War II combat footage, including scenes with the Grumman F6F Hellcat and Vought F4U Corsair beginning near mark 19:00 and kamikaze attacks by the Japanese, the film discusses a new threat to aircraft carriers via new high-speed jets at mark 23:10. The successful landing of an FH-1 Phantom in 1946 alleviated those fears. After… Read more »
“State Department Report On Clinton Emails Finds Hundreds Of Violations, Dozens Of Individuals At Fault”:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/report-hillary-clinton-emails-violations-faults
“A State Department report into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for government business found dozens of individuals at fault and hundreds of security violations.”
“The report summarized an administrative review of the handling of classified information relating to Clinton’s private email server used during her tenure as the nation’s highest-ranking diplomat between 2009 and 2013.”
“The report reflected only approximately 30,000 emails that the State Department was able to physically review, and found 38 individuals were responsible for 91 violations.”
“Another 497 violations were also found, although the report was not able to assign responsibility in those cases, in part because many of those involved had already left the department during the time it took to receive the emails and review them.”
My apologies to Ex and TAH for putting this in the wrong Post.
Have now posted this to WOT.
Cool effing beaners Mateys. Lubs me some floating mobile air fields full of aerial artillery platforms. Looking back from our perspective now, it is hard to think that nobody could see the war capabilities that carriers could have. Been what, 75 years since carrier fought carrier? Yet how many bad guys has Naval Aviation (AKA Floating Aerial Artillery) taken out over land?
BZ Aeronautically Designated Swabbies.
BTW is ninja the re-incarnate of AnotherPat? I see a lot of similarities in the quality of the researched added posts. Can we get a RTR here?
“Yet how many bad guys has Naval Aviation (AKA Floating Aerial Artillery) taken out over land?”
Is that really a serious question, King of Battle?
If so, please see:
– Navy and Marine Corps Aviation strikes against ground targets in the Pacific Campaign in WW2
– Navy and Marine Corps Aviation strikes against ground targets during the Korean War
– Navy and Marine Corps Aviation strikes against ground targets in Vietnam
– Navy and Marine Corps Aviation strikes against ground targets during the ’80s: Grenada, Lebanon, and Libya
– Navy and Marine Corps Aviation strikes against ground targets in Operation DESERT STORM
– Navy and Marine Corps Aviation strikes against ground targets in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
– Navy and Marine Corps Aviation strikes against ground targets in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
For some additional examples of Navy and Marine Corps Aviation strikes against ground targets, please see the relevant Navy and Marine Corps Aviation operations that are contained in this official U.S. Navy list of operations that covers the time period January 1991 thru July 2003.
“Navy-Marine Corps Crisis Response and Combat Actions”
https://www.navy.mil/navydata/policy/vision/vis04/vpp04-appxa.pdf
Semper Fidelis
I believe that was his point. You appear to have inverted his meaning.
Not a question Mick, but a statement of bragging on them. Maybe those Big Navy Boys “way back in the day” thought about carriers fighting carriers much as in the way that battle wagons fought one another. I don’t think it really occurred to them how handy it would be to have a floating airfield loaded down with Aerial Artillery Platforms. That is, until they saw how handy it was.
My brother was a plank leaser on the USS Midway CVA41 . He was a member of the gas gang, refueling planes which at that time were both piston prop and jets. Spent his whole four year enlistment on there except for boot camp and school.