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A handsome ship, sabotage181 . If only the United States Navy could afford to build 19 of them to replace the Ticonderoga -class guided-missile cruiser as originally planned for CG(X). Much nicer than the BMD ship based on the San Antonio -class LPD. I presume that this design will be dubbed ...

According to ex-Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, the BMD ship is tied to a specific region and cannot be deployed with a Carrier Strike Group (CSG).

Source:
http://smokeandstir.org/2012/10/25/weig ... ile-class/

Does the powerplant of the LPD 17 need to be upgraded to increase the speed from 22 knots to 30 knots in the BMD concept so that it can be part of a Carrier Strike Group (CSG)?

Did the Bureau of Ships expect a new hull classification for the Mission Essential Unit (MEU)/CG VSTOL since the concept painting starts with 1? What might be the new hull classification? Or if it had been build would it have been added to the cruisers list as CGH xx?

I am also the same Triton here at these forums.

Very nice drawing, TJ.

Has anyone seen drawings of the Gibbs & Cox Light Frigate?

The CVV was intended to operate V/STOL aircraft. How about some additional V/SOL aircraft in the ship drawing? What about the Convair 200 V/STOL fighter? http://steeljawscribe.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/image/convair_200_1.jpg Rockwell XFV-12? http://steeljawscribe.com/wordpress/wp-content ...

Is the Flight nomenclature unique to the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer? Or have other ship classes used Flight I, Flight II, Flight III etc. to denote subclasses/variants? Anyone know the origin of the term Flight as applied to naval ships?

I was reading about the Battle of the Argonne Forest (September 26 – November 11, 1918), also known as the Meuse-Argonne Offensive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse-Argonne_Offensive Although a decisive Allied Victory in World War I, the battle cost the lives of 26,277 Americans. It is known by s ...