The destroyer John McCain returned to sea 2 years after a collision with a merchant ship

USS US destroyer John S. McCain (DDG-56) returned to sea after a repair that was caused by a clash in 2017 off the coast of Singapore. This was notified by the 7th fleet of the US Navy.

Currently, the ship has left its pier, located in the Japanese city of Yokosuka, and is heading into the "open" waters. Work has been ongoing at John McCain since mid-December 2017 after the accident on August 21, 2017. Now the first stage of sea trials is underway, as a result of which the ship will return to active service as part of the main surface forces of the 7th fleet USA - 15th destroyer squadron deployed in Japan.

During marine tests, the ship and its crew will conduct a series of demonstration tests to assess whether the ship's on-board systems comply with the technical specifications of the Navy.

- The 7th fleet of the US Navy said in a statement.

Tests are subject to navigation systems, damage control, mechanical and electrical equipment, military equipment, communication devices and a power plant. At the same time, as indicated, according to the results of the repair, the ship received improved capabilities and greater impact power.

Recall that in the summer of 2017, the destroyer collided with a merchant ship in the Strait of Malacca. Then 10 sailors of the US Navy warship were declared missing. After some time, the commander of the Seventh Fleet of the United States Navy Scott Swift resigned.

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[Terenin]

... following the results of the repair, the ship received improved capabilities and greater impact power.

So it’s not clear that the hole from the next blow will be more or less?

[bessmertniy]

Interestingly - he is as blind as he was, or his blindness was made advanced ...

[bouncyhunter]

Gene, hello!

Quote: Terenin

So it’s not clear that the hole from the next blow will be more or less?

After reading, I had a similar question, but shorter: "Who will ram McCain next?"

[Terenin]

Quote: bouncyhunter

"Who's going to ram next McCain?"
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Pavel, I’ll already unsubscribe below that we have Yuri Trushechkina (who shot down over Hanoi McCain) there are more than one adversary trough (whether it is a paralepiped, whether it is a circle, a louse! V.Vysotsky)

[Civil]

As you call a ship, it will sail. McCain's downed pilot, ship darned vessel.

[vvvjak]

"Whatever you call a yacht, so it will float." (C) "Captain Vrungel" m / f.

[210ox]

And what does “what do you call it?” This is in honor of the very same grandfather .. They say he was a good sailor and commander. And the grandson almost lost the aircraft carrier ..

[kot423]

That is why, when mentioning this name, the first association with a grandson

[vvvjak]

Quote: 210ox

And the grandson was about to steal the aircraft carrier ..

Karma is not good. The grandson was named - a walking (or flying) "jamb" turned out. Somehow everything went wrong with the ship.

[Alexey RA]

Quote: 210ox

And what does “what do you call it?” This is in honor of that very grandfather ..

More precisely, in honor of just two McCains - grandfather and father.
My grandfather was still in WWI - he accompanied convoys across the Atlantic. In WWII, he commanded the base aviation in the south of TO during the time of Guadalcanal, then took command of the aircraft carrier group of TF58, and in October 1944 became the commander of the entire "American aircraft carrier roller" - TF38. Died four days after Japan's surrender of a heart attack.
My father fought the whole WWII on a submarine, during the Vietnam War he commanded the Pacific Command and was a hawk from hawks, constantly demanding the buildup of US naval power and the confrontation of the USSR at all key points.

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: 210ox

And what does “what do you call it?” This is in honor of the very same grandfather .. They say he was a good sailor and commander. And the grandson almost lost the aircraft carrier ..

Do you think all Asian sailors on dry cargo ships know in honor of which this destroyer is named from McCain?

[sabakina]

Quote: vvvjak

"Whatever you call a yacht, so it will float." (C) "Captain Vrungel" m / f.

New adventures of captain Vrungel:
- Christopher Bonifatevich! Trouble!
- It doesn’t matter. This is not so bad!

[210ox]

Ten sailors were missing? What, through a hole washed away ...? In my opinion this is possible only in a real battle .. What would be missing ..

[Terenin]

Quote: 210ox

Ten sailors were missing? What, through a hole washed away ...? In my opinion this is possible only in a real battle .. What would be missing ..

Hinting that retired lieutenant colonel Yuri Trushechkin (who brought down McCain in Vietnam) has a grandson honoring the traditions of fathers and grandfathers

[Avior]

Somehow he cited here about Trushechkin.
Veteran ended his life all forgotten and with everyday problems.

Petersburg in poverty, the missile who shot down McCain’s plane
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Trushechkin, who had once shot down the future US Senator John McCain in the skies over Vietnam, died in St. Petersburg yesterday, Fontanka.ru reports. For a long time, Trushechkin suffered from cancer. In recent years, he lived in a dilapidated house in Krasnoye Selo near St. Petersburg to retire in the amount of 10 thousand rubles.
"Fontanka.Ru"
2009-01-17 12:42

After leaving the reserve, Trushechkin first lived in Riga, and then moved to Russia, where he received no help from the state. He poked around in rented apartments and, according to his wife, lived almost in the basements.

In the end, in Russia Trushechkin was given a room in a communal apartment. But not as a reserve officer, but as an internally displaced person.

“I received nothing for my service in the armed forces,” Trushechkin himself says on the surviving video.

The last years of his life, the offender McCain huddled in a dilapidated hut in the Leningrad Region and lived in poverty, watching on television the successes of the American pilot, whom he had once shot down.

McCain died, surrounded by honor and respect, including in Vietnam, where a monument was erected to him during his lifetime.
By the way, their disease was similar.

Such is the gratitude for the service. Somehow things are very at odds with beautiful words

[Terenin]

Quote: Avior

Somehow he cited here about Trushechkin.
Veteran ended his life all forgotten and with everyday problems.

Petersburg in poverty, the missile who shot down McCain’s plane
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Trushechkin, who had once shot down the future US Senator John McCain in the skies over Vietnam, died in St. Petersburg yesterday, Fontanka.ru reports. For a long time, Trushechkin suffered from cancer. In recent years, he lived in a dilapidated house in Krasnoye Selo near St. Petersburg to retire in the amount of 10 thousand rubles.
"Fontanka.Ru"
2009-01-17 12:42

After leaving the reserve, Trushechkin first lived in Riga, and then moved to Russia, where he received no help from the state. He poked around in rented apartments and, according to his wife, lived almost in the basements.

In the end, in Russia Trushechkin was given a room in a communal apartment. But not as a reserve officer, but as an internally displaced person.

“I received nothing for my service in the armed forces,” Trushechkin himself says on the surviving video.

The last years of his life, the offender McCain huddled in a dilapidated hut in the Leningrad Region and lived in poverty, watching on television the successes of the American pilot, whom he had once shot down.

McCain died, surrounded by honor and respect, including in Vietnam, where a monument was erected to him during his lifetime.
By the way, their disease was similar.

Such is the gratitude for the service. Somehow things are very at odds with beautiful words

Well, why are scoundrels, scoundrels, bastards, etc. easier to live, and why are decent people living harder? This is to F.M.Dostoevsky. And, about the then attitude of the government towards military personnel, I agree.

[Avior]

At that time, 2009, the government was led by Putin V.V.
Do you think that something has changed in the country's leadership?

[Terenin]

Quote: Avior

At that time, 2009, the government was led by Putin V.V.
Do you think that something has changed in the country's leadership?

Sergey, let's talk about the good now, for example, about the hole in the destroyer D. McCain. Huh?

[Avior]

Yes, in fact, I was hooked when you wrote about Trushechkin, I remembered that he saw the interior view of him, which struck me

[Alexey RA]

Quote: Avior

McCain died, surrounded by honor and respect, including in Vietnam, where a monument was erected to him during his lifetime.
By the way, their disease was similar.

Such is the gratitude for the service. Somehow things are very at odds with beautiful words

Or maybe it's easier - Senator McCain was the representative dynasties and the elite. Grandfather is a four-star admiral, the son of a planter. Father is a four-star admiral, and after retirement, Reagan's naval adviser.

If McCain was an ordinary "guy of the people" - his fate could be completely different.

[Town Hall]

Quote: Alexey RA

Or maybe it's easier - Senator McCain was a representative of the dynasty and the elite

And despite this, he really fought and risked his life. Not at dad's headquarters

[kot423]

Well, with that name - as they say, there are more bulk carriers beautiful and different in course!

[EXPrompt]

At the same time, as indicated, according to the results of the repair, the ship received improved capabilities and greater impact power.

How so?
Have you developed new missiles to replace the harpoon for this American trough?

[EXPrompt]

Quote: vvvjak

"Whatever you call a yacht, so it will float." (C) "Captain Vrungel" m / f.

Based on history, this destroyer should immediately be parachuted to be captured by the enemy.

[kriten]

With that name, he doesn’t swim for a long time .... Well, if he doesn’t drown. You cannot give a ship the name of a loser.

[Avior]

Repair combined with modernization

[7,62x54]

Bulk carriers are currently the most effective means of hitting warships.

[knn54]

NOBODY will guarantee that this will not happen again. An increase in the size of the already huge fleet creates a shortage of competent, strong-willed specialists with all the consequences ...

[gabonskijfront]

It seems nonsense that two ships cannot disperse in the open sea, but all the insidiousness is that there are no landmarks in the sea and it is impossible to understand by eye how the oncoming ship is going to bypass from the right, or to understand from the left without reference to the landmark impossible, happened fishing you’ll go to sea on the 10 km, you see the oncoming boat it seems that it’s next to the right, and it bypasses you from the other side and far to the side.

[Evil Booth]

there are rules and there are signals showing what kind of board it is and also a bunch of morons engaged in a course of observation and even with radars.

[Evil Booth]

but an aircraft carrier, of course, after a couple of tons of rockets is repaired, they’ll just repair it right away, because it won’t drown (c) the daughter of the officers

[akbars]

The name "John McCainen" has nothing to do with the senator, these are the admirals of the Second World War in the Pacific. Doesn't anyone fear that there are more than 60 such destroyers in service with the US Navy, + to some extent in varying degrees of readiness? Repair for shipyards is not difficult: certain deadlines or others are indicated, modernization, etc. - what's the difference! 80 launchers for one hit - are you kidding me? Well, I got a hole and that - look at the accident rate of our ships (if anything, pl - this is also a ship).

[Avior]

He has not 80, but 96

[Old26]

Quote: 210ox

And what does “what do you call it?” This is in honor of the very same grandfather .. They say he was a good sailor and commander. And the grandson almost lost the aircraft carrier ..

Grandfather and father

Quote: 210ox

Ten sailors were missing? What, through a hole washed away ...? In my opinion this is possible only in a real battle .. What would be missing ..

The clash occurred at 5.45. Perhaps someone threw overboard. I have not seen the details of the collision

Quote: EXPrompt

At the same time, as indicated, according to the results of the repair, the ship received improved capabilities and greater impact power.

How so?
Have you developed new missiles to replace the harpoon for this American trough?

During the repair process, they could upgrade to level IIA, replacing the gun mount and increasing the number of cells. It is not yet known what the process of modernization was
And God forbid that we have such "troughs" with such potential

[Avior]

Could and version Aegis update

[Berkut24]

I wish this trough thrills and great adventures. In general, so that his life passes just as brightly and unforgettably, yes, in fact, so that it ends too.

[Gnefredov]

The best comment in the thread.

[Aliken]

As you call a ship, it will sail, for now there is confirmation of this.

[Amurets]

Now the first stage of sea trials is underway, as a result of which the ship will return to active service as part of the main surface forces of the US 7th Fleet - the 15th destroyer squadron deployed in Japan.

It is a pity that after the collision, he did not go into the submarine forces of the 7th US fleet

[Ros 56]

Haha And here we are criticized for the duration of the repair.

[Jerk]

Interestingly, they will poke him again a month or earlier?

[Rzzz]

Choto was repaired for a long time. Brew such a hole - well, a couple of weeks at most on a mid-yielded SRZ. In two years, you can build a new ship.
The rest of the time they did what there, cleaned the crap ??

[aszzz888]

At the same time, as indicated, according to the results of the repair, the ship received improved capabilities and greater impact power.

Well, beat him the day after a day!

[Old26]

Quote: Avior

Could and version Aegis update

Could. But the fact that there was no replacement of SM-2ER with SM-3 Block IIA - almost 100%