US Navy

[Edu]

¿Lo rojo es el lacito con el que va envuelto?

[Jean Luc]

Y la "terracita" azul de la vela???

[armada62]

Las EMALS traen de cabeza a la Navy. Anuncian un sobrecoste de 1.300 millones de dólares en los tres CVs de la clase Gerald Ford sólo por ellas... Pero no es el único sobrecoste....
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local ... 2239.story

Más detalles sobre la EMALS..
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/EMA ... ers-05220/

[armada62]

Os acordáis del golpe del SSN Hatford?....mirad lo que dice The Sun:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... &ATTR=News

[Edu]

Bueno... es The Sun... credibilidad equivalente al Confidencial Digital...

[armada62]

El primer P-8 de la Navy ha sido asignado a un escuadrón en Patuxent River para su evaluación
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i= ... =AME&s=AIR

[armada62]

El décimo clase "San Antonio" se denominará “John P. Murtha”
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/04/n ... r_041310w/

[Orel]

Ese P-8 y nosotros con nuestros pobrecillos P-3... ¡muy honrosos y eficaces, sobre todo sus tripulacions y técnicos de mantenimiento! pero necesitados de sustituto.

[armada62]

Aires de cambio en la Navy..................dice Gates

Gates suggests big changes coming for Navy

By ANNE FLAHERTY (AP) '' 10 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday called into question the Navy's heavy and expensive arsenal of ships and subs.

In a speech before naval officers and contractors, Gates did not say he was planning to cut any programs or its budget.

But he did say the military must rethink whether it can afford such a massive naval fleet at a time when the Army and Marine Corps need more money to take care of troops and their families.

"Do we really need 11 carrier strike groups for another 30 years when no other country has more than one?" Gates asked.

He noted that the Navy's most expensive resources aren't on the front lines when it comes to countering many modern threats, such as piracy.

"As we learned last year, you don't necessarily need a billion-dollar guided missile destroyer to chase down and deal with a bunch of teenage pirates wielding AK-47s" and rocket-propelled grenades, Gates said.

John Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.org defense website based in Alexandria, Va., said this is the first time, as far as he knows, that Gates has addressed the cost of maintaining the roughly 300-ship Navy.

Pike said that Gates, by raising the issue of the size and composition of the fleet with the Navy league, had entered "the Lion's den" — a reference to the pushback he's likely to get from Congress. Many lawmakers protect the Navy shipbuilding industry because it means jobs in their districts.

Gates said the military still has a way to go to develop capabilities useful in places such as Afghanistan, where small insurgent groups are the primary threat, and Haiti, where the military is aiding humanitarian workers.

This year, the Defense Department requested nearly $190 billion to buy and develop weapons, but only 10 percent of that is dedicated toward counterinsurgency, humanitarian and similar missions.

"This approach ignores the fact that we face diverse adversaries with finite resources that consequently force them to come at the U.S. in unconventional and innovative ways," he said.

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[variable]

Hombre... un poco de razon no le falta.
Saludos.

[armada62]

Que benévolo eres........ Los cambios en las Armadas están viniendo y se ven desde hace tiempo....
Ay Tafalla, que razón tienes!!!!.........

[armada62]

Lanzado el San Diego, sexto buque anfibio de la clase LPD-17, que está prevista su entrada en servicio en 2011
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010 ... san-diego/

[armada62]

Este mes comienzan las pruebas de lanzamiento del SM-6 a bordo, con previsión de tenerlo operativo en el 2011
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rayth ... g_999.html

[armada62]

Problemas en las EMALS.
Un error de software hace que un lanzamiento de prueba invierta su dirección y cause daños por valor de 52000 dolares. Lo peor es que hace que el programa se retrase unos 7 meses, aunque aseguran que no afectará al lanzamiento Gerald Ford.
"Pa matarlos"

May 5/10: The Newport News Daily Press reports that in January 2010, a software glitch caused one of the EMALS shuttles to reverse course and slam into other equipment during one of the initial full-scale land-based tests. It caused $52,000 worth of damage, set back the testing program by about 3 months, and set back the overall EMALS program by 7 months.

“Despite the problems, the Navy's program manager for the launch system, Capt. Randy Mahr, said the delay would not affect the delivery of the Ford… scheduled to enter the fleet in 2015. The Navy and General Atomics had planned to begin launching aircraft from the land-based system this summer, but that's now been delayed until later this fall, Mahr said…. The things that are delaying me right now are software integration issues, which can be fine-tuned after the equipment is installed in the ship.”

That particular software problem has since been fixed, and more than 750 no-load test runs of the equipment have been done, with about 250 at full speed. Dead loads with weighted sleds are the next step, aircraft trials are expected in fall 2010, and the first pieces of EMALS equipment are now scheduled to begin arriving in Newport News for installation in May and June 2011.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/EMA ... ers-05220/

[armada62]

Finalizada la unión y soldadura del casco de presión del California, octavo clase Virginia. con foto.
A los peticionarios de imágenes del 80, salvo filtración punible, no veremos una foto hasta que esté, al menos, así­.
http://www.irconnect.com/noc/press/page ... l?d=191818