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Title: Warship Thread
Post by: Walks_At_Night on May 04, 2021, 03:46:11 PM: Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton make a port call deep into the Black Sea. Long way from home. I guess the idea is to poke the Bear in the eye but she would have a tough time defending herself if it got ugly.

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1389546498350780416
Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Walks_At_Night on May 04, 2021, 04:00:53 PM: Her Majesty's Ship Tamar is looking sharp!

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1388567629800017924
Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Walks_At_Night on May 05, 2021, 02:38:45 PM: This triggers @K_Dubb

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1389973468398170115
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on May 07, 2021, 04:55:15 PM: Great picture of USS Vermont heading to sea from Groton, CT.

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Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Walks_At_Night on May 08, 2021, 08:07:55 PM: Brand spanking new!

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1391092337628131330
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on May 10, 2021, 05:20:01 PM: What's left of the Bon Homme Richard heading through the Panama Canal

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1391809154206081029
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on May 16, 2021, 05:36:57 PM: Kirov class getting scrapped.

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1393911301810839560
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on May 21, 2021, 04:39:42 AM: HeHe
https://twitter.com/UKDefJournal/status/1395685062159519744
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on May 26, 2021, 01:02:25 PM: https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1397627955304673286
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on May 28, 2021, 05:08:57 PM: 80 years and 1 day ago the Bismarck went down taking 2,000 men with her.

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Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Walks_At_Night on June 14, 2021, 05:54:30 PM: Great looking boat!!!!!
https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1404574694745985027
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on June 17, 2021, 12:58:05 PM: Two USS North Carolina's

USS North Carolina SSN 777 in Pearl Harbor, HI recently:
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USS North Carolina BB 55 at Wilmington, NC where she is thankfully preserved
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Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Walks_At_Night on June 29, 2021, 07:49:19 PM: Half a sub!

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1410014730262040580
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on July 13, 2021, 05:55:22 PM: This is an interesting video on a massive Royal Navy goat screw at sea:
Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Uncle Duke on July 13, 2021, 08:29:02 PM: Quote from: Walks_At_Night on July 13, 2021, 05:55:22 PM
This is an interesting video on a massive Royal Navy goat screw at sea:

Thanks for posting this Walks. I had heard of this incident, but never in the detail presented here. I remember ready about about British subs being damaged in training exercises.
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on September 01, 2021, 02:26:40 PM: Last of the Zumwalt class - there was supposed to 32 of them but this will be the 3rd and last.

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1433037653537169414
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on September 10, 2021, 03:43:02 PM: Mexico's finest!

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1436425569076404224
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on September 14, 2021, 11:36:41 AM: Mystery vessel spotted in San Diego

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1437538715761528835?
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Post by: Walks_At_Night on September 17, 2021, 11:48:21 AM: Ever wish you had a different job?

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1438862407279984641
Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Walks_At_Night on October 07, 2021, 02:53:54 PM: Don't know if this B.S. or not......

https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1446190294693781509
Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Walks_At_Night on October 07, 2021, 09:18:49 PM: Well the USS Connecticut twitter post was not B.S.:
https://news.usni.org/2021/10/07/breaking-attack-submarine-uss-connecticut-suffers-underwater-in-pacific

This is extra bad as she is a Seawolf Class boat. The Navy only has three of them - with one being an odd duck and configured underwater special ops [USS Jimmy Carter. The other two USS Seawolf and the Connecticut carry a huge number of anti-ship Tomahawk missles. THe other Navy attack subs are Virginia class and carry a significantly smaller amount of Tomahawks.

It just got a little easier for China to invade Taiwan - depending how bad the damage was. For the Navy to announce it publicly, it must have been bad enough to where it the damage could not be hidden.
Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Walks_At_Night on December 15, 2021, 04:27:57 PM: USS Connecticut - one of only three Sea Wolf class submarines and one of only two configured for an anti-shipping role has left San Diego. She hit "something" in the South China Sea, limped to Guam and then made it back to San Diego the other day. She looks pretty jacked up - will be interesting to see if she goes back to Bremerton or has to head back to the east coast for repairs. They newer Virginia class submarines will be buffed up to carry more anti-ship missiles as a deterrence to the Chinese but for now Sea Wolf and the mangled Connecticut are the best boats for that job.

https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1471245843697217543
https://twitter.com/WarshipCam/status/1471267141559234573
Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Up All Night on December 07, 2022, 04:38:18 PM
Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: JUAN on December 07, 2022, 04:49:34 PM: Wrong in the first few seconds. The first combat submarine dates back to The War of the Rebellion and the CSS Huntley.
Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Walks_At_Night on December 07, 2022, 10:18:46 PM: Quote from: JUAN on December 07, 2022, 04:49:34 PM
Wrong in the first few seconds. The first combat submarine dates back to The War of the Rebellion and the CSS Huntley.

Or this crazy Mo Fo from the Revolutionary War

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Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: JUAN on December 08, 2022, 03:16:45 AM: Quote from: Walks_At_Night on December 07, 2022, 10:18:46 PM
Or this crazy Mo Fo from the Revolutionary War

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Was that thing actually built?
Title: Re: Warship Thread
Post by: Rikki Gins on December 08, 2022, 04:04:56 AM: Quote from: JUAN on December 08, 2022, 03:16:45 AM
Was that thing actually built?

Yes, and it even had a name. The Turtle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bushnell