New ships of the American fleet. 2013 year
This year has been extremely saturated with loud events in the field of shipbuilding: it is important swaying in the wake, several large combat units stepped onto the surface of the sea. Each of these ships has its own scandalous story. They all mark the next generation. fleet - The change of the entire previous paradigm and the transition to new concepts of the use of naval forces.
For example, in the last 10 months, the naval squad of the Russian Navy has been supplemented with the Boiky missile corvette. In September, Yury Ivanov was launched in St. Petersburg - a large reconnaissance ship (communications vessel) of 18280 Ave. A little earlier, in summer, the frigate Admiral Butakov was laid at the Kaliningrad plant Yantar. 8 November 2013 of the year completed the state tests of the K-550 "Alexander Nevsky" - a strategic missile submarine, built on a new project 955A "Borey". And somewhere on the other side of Europe, in France, the body of the Vladivostok helicopter carrier for the Russian Pacific Fleet was launched.
Of course, much has been done! And more things are planned for the future ...
But it is with us ... And what about the overseas comrades? How is the mighty American fleet doing, the costs of which exceed the costs of all the other fleets of the world combined? What are the huge funds spent on? Do the Yankees in secret from all build a spaceship?
It turns out no. The starship was never built, but in 2013, a warship appeared that looks like the pyramid of Cheops.
October 29 2013 at the Bath Iron Works Shipyard (Maine) the USS Zumwalt squadron destroyer (DDG-1000) was launched. The stealth ship, which has been talked about so much over 10 years, finally ceased to be science fiction and became a reality as a 14500-ton steel monster with rockets and large-caliber artillery.
"Zamvolt" is positioned by the Pentagon as a counter-terrorist ship designed to strike at the shore. Like a ghostly shadow, he will move along the coast of the enemy, “pouring” the bases, ports and coastal cities with a shower of six-inch shells and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Unusual pyramid setting, nose-breakwater, "littered" inside the side, the stern, completely given under the helipad. AN / SPY-3 radar with three active headlights, 80 peripheral launchers (80 "Tomahawks" or to 320 ESSM anti-aircraft missiles), and most importantly - two Advanced Gun System naval guns with an estimated range of 155 miles (80 km). Ammunition - 150 "conventional" and active-projectiles. Due to the high automation and efficient cooling of the shafts, the effectiveness of two AGS marine equivalent 920 land howitzers of the same caliber.
Representatives of the Pentagon emphasize that the destructive power of the new Zamvolt will be similar to the battleships of the Second World War.
27 September 2013, another remarkable event took place - Austal shipyard delivered the fourth coastal zone warship (Littoral Combat Ship) to the customer - USS Coronado (LCS-4).
Fantastic trimaran 3100 tons full displacement, capable of moving at speeds above 40 nodes.
The concept of LCS implied the creation of a universal ship with a small draft, combining the functions of a patrol ship, a corvette, a submarine hunter, a mine-sweeping ship, and
landing craft and transport platform for the rapid transport of goods in areas of military conflicts.
The entire aft part is occupied by a spacious helipad, the built-in hangar is designed for the basing of two Ci Hawk helicopters. The scope of LCS application has been expanded with the help of sets of interchangeable modules (first of all - detection tools), created for specific tasks, as well as the possibility of basing various UAVs, flood and underwater unmanned vehicles on board the LCS.
Launched in the 2012 year, Coronado could not pass state tests for a whole year: a fire broke out in the engine room twice, and cracks in the hull appeared at full speed. Finally, the "Coronado" still brought to mind. Final adoption by the US Navy is scheduled for April 2014.
Another alarming event that went unnoticed by the general public happened on May 14 of the year 2013: as part of the Shipping Command USNS Monford Point (T-MLP-1) was accepted. In appearance - a slow-moving clumsy barge, resembling a semi-submerged ship, with an empty displacement of 34000 tons. So it is, from a technical point of view - this is a regular tanker of the Alaska type with cut out tanks.
But the first impression is deceptive. "Monford Point" seems harmless exactly until it becomes known the purpose of this hellish machine. The Yankees themselves are much more eager to talk about aircraft carriers, destroyers, and universal landing ships than about the special technique of the Maritime Transportation Command. Advertise such things are not supposed to.
"Monford Point" is classified as MLP - mobile landing platform (interchange terminal and floating base for landing craft). During the landing, it occupies a position at a distance of several dozen (hundreds) kilometers from the enemy coast, and an 60 thousand ton rollback-container carrier with parts of the US Army Armored Division 3 is moored to her side. Under their own power, the tanks descend along the ramp to the MLP deck, then they are loaded onto landing craft - and off you go, into battle!
The use of "Monford Point" allows you to dramatically increase the intensity of the landing, directly using the high-speed roller and container ships Military Sealift Command. It becomes possible to quickly deliver bulky cargo and heavy armored vehicles to the shore.
This is what the Monford Point MLP is. And so it is so dangerous.
The fourth ship, which is worth mentioning in this review - USS Minnesota multipurpose nuclear submarine (SSN-783)transferred to the US Navy 7 September 2013, ahead of schedule on the 11 months. Silent underwater assassin of the Virginia type (series II).
... The boat is approaching the theater of operations at a speed of 500 miles per day, but none of the opponents do not even know how close it is to its goal. Minnesota extracts oxygen and fresh water from seawater, and its hydroacoustic complex is able to track the movements of ships on the other side of the ocean. The system of insulated decks, the S9G reactor, which does not require recharging during 30 years, is a multifunctional mast with television cameras and thermal imagers, instead of the usual periscope: Minnesota is quite remarkable from a technical point of view. One of the most advanced boats in the world today.
Mine torpedo weaponThe 12 mines for launching the Tomahawks, a lock chamber for the exit of combat swimmers, unmanned underwater vehicles — Virginia-type boats were created as a response to the threats of the new millennium. The main tasks: naval intelligence and observation of the coast of the enemy, participation in local operations, the landing of sabotage groups, striking cruise missiles at coastal targets.
In early November, the media slipped information about laying a shipyard destroyer USS John Finn (DDG-113) at Paskagul’s shipyard. The event did not cause much excitement - a typical destroyer of the Orly Burk type IIA series. In addition to the shock and defensive (air defense / anti-aircraft defense) functions, Finn will specialize in solving national missile defense tasks and conducting convoys on saturated mines to sea areas. The only small feature of the new destroyer - "Finn" plans to become the first US Navy ship equipped, in addition to the standard ESD, a system of protection against biological weapons.
No less quiet and inconspicuous in February 2013 was the ceremony USS Arlington amphibious assault transport (LPD-24) is launched. The eighth ship of the type "San Antonio", designed to transport the Marine Corps expeditionary group to the other end of the Earth. 22 is thousands of tons of full displacement, 350 manned crew, up to 700 marines. Also in the equipment of the ship includes 2 hovercraft, 4 helicopter and light defensive weapons.
Now it is time to announce the details of two major projects, which became known last week:
November 5 2013 years trials began universal landing helicopter carrier USS America (LHA-6). The head of the UDKV class of the same name, with a solid flight deck, looks like a plump Mistral.
The helicopter carrier with a displacement of 45 thousand tons, by a strange coincidence, appeared in public WITHOUT aft dock camera. As the designers explained, the space was given for the expansion of the air group (however, on subsequent ships, the camera promises to return the camera to its place). As a result, “America” lost the opportunity to land even trucks and light armored vehicles — the only way to deliver personnel — the 12 convertible planes MV-22 Osprey and four heavy CH-53E helicopters. In addition, six F-35B fighters, seven Super Cobra attack helicopters and a pair of Pave Hawk search and rescue helicopters will be included in the UDKV air wing.
The creators of "America" claim that, if necessary, their waterfowl can be used as a light aircraft carrier (up to 20 VTOL F-35B), but, alas, the situation is too obvious: this time the Americans built nonsense.
Even despite the absence of any technical delicacies, aft docking chamber and unification of 45% of nodes with the UDC of the previous project (“Wosp”), the cost of building “America” flew into US taxpayers in 3,4 billion dollars. For comparison, the odious “Mistral” cost Russian Navy at a price of less than 1 billion dollars apiece. But who dares to assert that the amphibious capabilities of "America" are three times higher than those of the "Mistral"? There is an inefficient waste of money. Using "America" as a light aircraft carrier is also a useless undertaking. Where even the powerful Nimitz cannot cope, this non-avian carrier with the F-20B 35 "vertical boxes" does not mean ANYTHING.
At the same time, the very fact of the construction of such a large and complex ship testifies to the great potential of American industry.
Finally, the final chord of the American shipbuilding program-2013.
November 9 at the Northrop Grumman shipyard in Newport News on the water the strike carrier of the new generation USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) was launched.
112000-tonne Leviathan, the construction of which cost the Pentagon 12,8 billion dollars (another $ 4,7 billion was spent on R & D). "Gerald Ford" is considered the largest, most expensive and complex ship in the history of mankind.
EMALS electromagnetic catapults and AAG electromagnetic airborne detectors, A1B nuclear power plant capable of operating without recharging for 50 years, dual-band AFAR radar, plasma PAWDS household waste incineration system (yank in direct and figurative radar, incapacitated, RAW burner (in the direct and figurative, portable, incapacitated, debris in the direct and figurative, PAWDS household flame, incapacitated, portable and portable, RAWDS, plus, there is an increase in household waste PAWDS (in the direct and figurative sense of the AFAR) reduce crew to 3200 sailors - on 800 people. less than on Nimitz type aircraft carriers ... In the long run, the ship is planned to be equipped with combat lasers, dynamic protection, and other promising examples of energy weapons - the new American aircraft carrier risks becoming a powerful demonstrator of modern developments in electronics, shipbuilding, nuclear energy and other related areas science and technology.
Although there are those who belong to the newest super-ship with some skepticism, and believes that the Ford supercarrier has turned into a parody of its illustrious ancestors, such as the aircraft carriers of World War II Lexington and Saratoga.
“Aircraft carriers of the Nimitz type are capable of providing 120 sorties per day, the new“ wundervafl ”is capable of lifting into the air up to 160 airplanes with the help of its electromagnetic catapults. The last of the Nimitsev cost us almost $ 7 billion. The approximate price of building a new Ford is $ 13,5 billion. As a result, the nation has to pay 2 times more for “vundervaflu”, which can do only a third more work, ” Outraged by the Rear Admirals of the US Navy, William Moran and Thomas Moore.
The opinion of the admirals is shared by the retired US Navy captain Ed McNamey, as well as the analyst of the American Security Center, the captain of the US Navy, Henry D. Hendricks. Aircraft ships have become irrelevant and ineffective. "Ford" is nothing more than an expensive toy, created in favor of the industrial and military lobby. Without it, many high-ranking Pentagon officers will lose their jobs, and industrial magnates will be left without orders.
The logic of equipping an aircraft carrier with a DBR superradar - a system consisting of a decimeter range radar and centimeter radar AN / SPY-3 with active PAR (as on the Zamvolt destroyer) is not quite clear. An aircraft carrier is not an air defense destroyer, but just a floating airfield, which covers a whole squadron of cruisers and destroyers. It has only primitive air defense systems. Even finding an enemy rocket, he is unlikely to have enough forces to intercept it. It remains only to hope for the escort destroyers.
The AN / SPY-3 features will remain unclaimed. Like, for example, the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford itself: over the past 60 years there has not been a single operation in which these floating airfields would be of any use whatsoever.
Small photo gallery:
For example, in the last 10 months, the naval squad of the Russian Navy has been supplemented with the Boiky missile corvette. In September, Yury Ivanov was launched in St. Petersburg - a large reconnaissance ship (communications vessel) of 18280 Ave. A little earlier, in summer, the frigate Admiral Butakov was laid at the Kaliningrad plant Yantar. 8 November 2013 of the year completed the state tests of the K-550 "Alexander Nevsky" - a strategic missile submarine, built on a new project 955A "Borey". And somewhere on the other side of Europe, in France, the body of the Vladivostok helicopter carrier for the Russian Pacific Fleet was launched.
Of course, much has been done! And more things are planned for the future ...
But it is with us ... And what about the overseas comrades? How is the mighty American fleet doing, the costs of which exceed the costs of all the other fleets of the world combined? What are the huge funds spent on? Do the Yankees in secret from all build a spaceship?
It turns out no. The starship was never built, but in 2013, a warship appeared that looks like the pyramid of Cheops.
October 29 2013 at the Bath Iron Works Shipyard (Maine) the USS Zumwalt squadron destroyer (DDG-1000) was launched. The stealth ship, which has been talked about so much over 10 years, finally ceased to be science fiction and became a reality as a 14500-ton steel monster with rockets and large-caliber artillery.
"Zamvolt" is positioned by the Pentagon as a counter-terrorist ship designed to strike at the shore. Like a ghostly shadow, he will move along the coast of the enemy, “pouring” the bases, ports and coastal cities with a shower of six-inch shells and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Unusual pyramid setting, nose-breakwater, "littered" inside the side, the stern, completely given under the helipad. AN / SPY-3 radar with three active headlights, 80 peripheral launchers (80 "Tomahawks" or to 320 ESSM anti-aircraft missiles), and most importantly - two Advanced Gun System naval guns with an estimated range of 155 miles (80 km). Ammunition - 150 "conventional" and active-projectiles. Due to the high automation and efficient cooling of the shafts, the effectiveness of two AGS marine equivalent 920 land howitzers of the same caliber.
Representatives of the Pentagon emphasize that the destructive power of the new Zamvolt will be similar to the battleships of the Second World War.
27 September 2013, another remarkable event took place - Austal shipyard delivered the fourth coastal zone warship (Littoral Combat Ship) to the customer - USS Coronado (LCS-4).
Fantastic trimaran 3100 tons full displacement, capable of moving at speeds above 40 nodes.
Coronado Sister Thorn - USS Independence (LCS-2)
The concept of LCS implied the creation of a universal ship with a small draft, combining the functions of a patrol ship, a corvette, a submarine hunter, a mine-sweeping ship, and
landing craft and transport platform for the rapid transport of goods in areas of military conflicts.
The entire aft part is occupied by a spacious helipad, the built-in hangar is designed for the basing of two Ci Hawk helicopters. The scope of LCS application has been expanded with the help of sets of interchangeable modules (first of all - detection tools), created for specific tasks, as well as the possibility of basing various UAVs, flood and underwater unmanned vehicles on board the LCS.
Launched in the 2012 year, Coronado could not pass state tests for a whole year: a fire broke out in the engine room twice, and cracks in the hull appeared at full speed. Finally, the "Coronado" still brought to mind. Final adoption by the US Navy is scheduled for April 2014.
Another alarming event that went unnoticed by the general public happened on May 14 of the year 2013: as part of the Shipping Command USNS Monford Point (T-MLP-1) was accepted. In appearance - a slow-moving clumsy barge, resembling a semi-submerged ship, with an empty displacement of 34000 tons. So it is, from a technical point of view - this is a regular tanker of the Alaska type with cut out tanks.
But the first impression is deceptive. "Monford Point" seems harmless exactly until it becomes known the purpose of this hellish machine. The Yankees themselves are much more eager to talk about aircraft carriers, destroyers, and universal landing ships than about the special technique of the Maritime Transportation Command. Advertise such things are not supposed to.
"Monford Point" is classified as MLP - mobile landing platform (interchange terminal and floating base for landing craft). During the landing, it occupies a position at a distance of several dozen (hundreds) kilometers from the enemy coast, and an 60 thousand ton rollback-container carrier with parts of the US Army Armored Division 3 is moored to her side. Under their own power, the tanks descend along the ramp to the MLP deck, then they are loaded onto landing craft - and off you go, into battle!
The use of "Monford Point" allows you to dramatically increase the intensity of the landing, directly using the high-speed roller and container ships Military Sealift Command. It becomes possible to quickly deliver bulky cargo and heavy armored vehicles to the shore.
This is what the Monford Point MLP is. And so it is so dangerous.
The fourth ship, which is worth mentioning in this review - USS Minnesota multipurpose nuclear submarine (SSN-783)transferred to the US Navy 7 September 2013, ahead of schedule on the 11 months. Silent underwater assassin of the Virginia type (series II).
... The boat is approaching the theater of operations at a speed of 500 miles per day, but none of the opponents do not even know how close it is to its goal. Minnesota extracts oxygen and fresh water from seawater, and its hydroacoustic complex is able to track the movements of ships on the other side of the ocean. The system of insulated decks, the S9G reactor, which does not require recharging during 30 years, is a multifunctional mast with television cameras and thermal imagers, instead of the usual periscope: Minnesota is quite remarkable from a technical point of view. One of the most advanced boats in the world today.
Mine torpedo weaponThe 12 mines for launching the Tomahawks, a lock chamber for the exit of combat swimmers, unmanned underwater vehicles — Virginia-type boats were created as a response to the threats of the new millennium. The main tasks: naval intelligence and observation of the coast of the enemy, participation in local operations, the landing of sabotage groups, striking cruise missiles at coastal targets.
In early November, the media slipped information about laying a shipyard destroyer USS John Finn (DDG-113) at Paskagul’s shipyard. The event did not cause much excitement - a typical destroyer of the Orly Burk type IIA series. In addition to the shock and defensive (air defense / anti-aircraft defense) functions, Finn will specialize in solving national missile defense tasks and conducting convoys on saturated mines to sea areas. The only small feature of the new destroyer - "Finn" plans to become the first US Navy ship equipped, in addition to the standard ESD, a system of protection against biological weapons.
USS Arlington (LPD-24)
No less quiet and inconspicuous in February 2013 was the ceremony USS Arlington amphibious assault transport (LPD-24) is launched. The eighth ship of the type "San Antonio", designed to transport the Marine Corps expeditionary group to the other end of the Earth. 22 is thousands of tons of full displacement, 350 manned crew, up to 700 marines. Also in the equipment of the ship includes 2 hovercraft, 4 helicopter and light defensive weapons.
Now it is time to announce the details of two major projects, which became known last week:
November 5 2013 years trials began universal landing helicopter carrier USS America (LHA-6). The head of the UDKV class of the same name, with a solid flight deck, looks like a plump Mistral.
USS America (LHA-6)
The helicopter carrier with a displacement of 45 thousand tons, by a strange coincidence, appeared in public WITHOUT aft dock camera. As the designers explained, the space was given for the expansion of the air group (however, on subsequent ships, the camera promises to return the camera to its place). As a result, “America” lost the opportunity to land even trucks and light armored vehicles — the only way to deliver personnel — the 12 convertible planes MV-22 Osprey and four heavy CH-53E helicopters. In addition, six F-35B fighters, seven Super Cobra attack helicopters and a pair of Pave Hawk search and rescue helicopters will be included in the UDKV air wing.
The creators of "America" claim that, if necessary, their waterfowl can be used as a light aircraft carrier (up to 20 VTOL F-35B), but, alas, the situation is too obvious: this time the Americans built nonsense.
Even despite the absence of any technical delicacies, aft docking chamber and unification of 45% of nodes with the UDC of the previous project (“Wosp”), the cost of building “America” flew into US taxpayers in 3,4 billion dollars. For comparison, the odious “Mistral” cost Russian Navy at a price of less than 1 billion dollars apiece. But who dares to assert that the amphibious capabilities of "America" are three times higher than those of the "Mistral"? There is an inefficient waste of money. Using "America" as a light aircraft carrier is also a useless undertaking. Where even the powerful Nimitz cannot cope, this non-avian carrier with the F-20B 35 "vertical boxes" does not mean ANYTHING.
At the same time, the very fact of the construction of such a large and complex ship testifies to the great potential of American industry.
Finally, the final chord of the American shipbuilding program-2013.
November 9 at the Northrop Grumman shipyard in Newport News on the water the strike carrier of the new generation USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) was launched.
112000-tonne Leviathan, the construction of which cost the Pentagon 12,8 billion dollars (another $ 4,7 billion was spent on R & D). "Gerald Ford" is considered the largest, most expensive and complex ship in the history of mankind.
EMALS electromagnetic catapults and AAG electromagnetic airborne detectors, A1B nuclear power plant capable of operating without recharging for 50 years, dual-band AFAR radar, plasma PAWDS household waste incineration system (yank in direct and figurative radar, incapacitated, RAW burner (in the direct and figurative, portable, incapacitated, debris in the direct and figurative, PAWDS household flame, incapacitated, portable and portable, RAWDS, plus, there is an increase in household waste PAWDS (in the direct and figurative sense of the AFAR) reduce crew to 3200 sailors - on 800 people. less than on Nimitz type aircraft carriers ... In the long run, the ship is planned to be equipped with combat lasers, dynamic protection, and other promising examples of energy weapons - the new American aircraft carrier risks becoming a powerful demonstrator of modern developments in electronics, shipbuilding, nuclear energy and other related areas science and technology.
Although there are those who belong to the newest super-ship with some skepticism, and believes that the Ford supercarrier has turned into a parody of its illustrious ancestors, such as the aircraft carriers of World War II Lexington and Saratoga.
The Nimitz-class carriers can generate approximately 120 sorties a day. Ford-class carriers,
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“Aircraft carriers of the Nimitz type are capable of providing 120 sorties per day, the new“ wundervafl ”is capable of lifting into the air up to 160 airplanes with the help of its electromagnetic catapults. The last of the Nimitsev cost us almost $ 7 billion. The approximate price of building a new Ford is $ 13,5 billion. As a result, the nation has to pay 2 times more for “vundervaflu”, which can do only a third more work, ” Outraged by the Rear Admirals of the US Navy, William Moran and Thomas Moore.
The opinion of the admirals is shared by the retired US Navy captain Ed McNamey, as well as the analyst of the American Security Center, the captain of the US Navy, Henry D. Hendricks. Aircraft ships have become irrelevant and ineffective. "Ford" is nothing more than an expensive toy, created in favor of the industrial and military lobby. Without it, many high-ranking Pentagon officers will lose their jobs, and industrial magnates will be left without orders.
The logic of equipping an aircraft carrier with a DBR superradar - a system consisting of a decimeter range radar and centimeter radar AN / SPY-3 with active PAR (as on the Zamvolt destroyer) is not quite clear. An aircraft carrier is not an air defense destroyer, but just a floating airfield, which covers a whole squadron of cruisers and destroyers. It has only primitive air defense systems. Even finding an enemy rocket, he is unlikely to have enough forces to intercept it. It remains only to hope for the escort destroyers.
The AN / SPY-3 features will remain unclaimed. Like, for example, the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford itself: over the past 60 years there has not been a single operation in which these floating airfields would be of any use whatsoever.
Small photo gallery:
Littoral Warship
USS John Finn Destroyer Bookmark Ceremony (DDG-113)
Approximately it will look like built "John Finn" (in the photo - USS Spruance (DDG-111)
Landing transport dock (LPD) type "San Antonio"
MLP platform at work
And here is the high-speed roller, full of tanks - USNS Sisler (T-ARK-311)
The cabin of the destroyer "Zamvolt", December last year
Submarine USS Minnesota (SSN-783) on its way to Norfolk, September 2013
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