They held me onboard tied to the pier where I could see my house from the bridge for almost 3 months during the coof and learned absolutely nothing from it
@sickburnbro Not a huge deal, we have a lot of BMD capable DDGs. Can just accelerate deployment cycle and send them independent of the CSG. Main concern would be how many of these ships are out there with SM2s in the tubes thay would normally have SM3 because of the C802 and drone threat
@sickburnbro Dont remember if Murphy is baseline 9 or not. Petersen should be. Even still, if they didn't have intel that the houthis had this capability they wouldn't have been looking and if you don't see it at launch you're probably not intercepting
@BowsacNoodle@KingOfWhiteAmerica@HarryNuggets >Changing a timing belt tensioner in an interference engine without changing the timing belt using a broomstick to wedge the belt in place. Saved $1,500 in labor.
what why would you do that just replace the belt anyway they're like $50
@EvilSandmich@jb We transfer food, parts, and ordnance at sea every single day. Air-based platforms and ammunition for the 5" gun, 25mm, and CIWS can be sent over on the line at sea, we have a whole class of ship (T-AKE) specifically designed to do this.
Vertical launch systems *can* theoretically be reloaded at sea, but we have never done it with live ammunition because it's retard dangerous. Getting a 25' long canister into a square hole is hard enough in port, it's basically impossible in anything worse than a sea state 3. NAVSEA is working on the problem (TRAM) and initial test results have been mixed.
Probably doesn't matter anyway though, it's been known for as long as missisles have existsed that if you shoot [enemy capacity + 1] you're going to score a kill. Being able to reload at sea isn't going to change that math in an actual peer-conflict naval engagement.