February 13Feb 13 Harry S Truman collides with a non-US navy ship.... I get that they were about to transit the canal... but HTF did any ship get allowed to get close enough to fucking boop a carrier? all jokes aside... that seems like the protective screen folks fucked up.
February 13Feb 13 hah crazy timing, I just posted in the Prosperity Guardian thread about this, since the Truman has been a centerpiece of that effort Edited February 13Feb 13 by Captainant
February 13Feb 13 I was wondering the same thing. That is when the ship is most vulnerable. That is when the manuevering watch is set. It's all hands on deck. Doesn't make any sense. All I know is that an admiral or 2 and a bunch of captains are about to fluff up their resume
February 13Feb 13 2 minutes ago, FartingMonk said: I was wondering the same thing. That is when the ship is most vulnerable. That is when the manuevering watch is set. It's all hands on deck. Doesn't make any sense. All I know is that an admiral or 2 and a bunch of captains are about to fluff up their resume USS Cole comes to mind here on a much larger scale. Got damn lucky and the whole world was/is watching.
February 13Feb 13 3 minutes ago, BabaYaga said: USS Cole comes to mind here on a much larger scale. Got damn lucky and the whole world was/is watching. The USS Cole was a lot different. It was a pre 9/11 thing when the top side watch wasn't even allowed to has their guns loaded. The security posture back then was so weak that ships would pull up next to it to sell magazines and other things to the sailors. The machine gunner asked for permission to open fire and the OOD refused to give that order. In today's world unless that merchant ship lost power and made all indications that it lost steering to the Truman. They would have smoked that ship The Cole was also tied to the pier Edited February 13Feb 13 by FartingMonk
February 13Feb 13 2 minutes ago, FartingMonk said: The USS Cole was a lot different. It was a pre 9/11 thing when the top side watch wasn't even allowed to has their guns loaded. The security posture back then was so weak that ships would pull up next to it to sell magazines and other things to the sailors. The machine gunner asked for permission to open fire and the OOD refused to give that order. In today's world unless that merchant ship lost power and made all indications that it lost steering to the Truman. They would have smoked that ship The Cole was also tied to the pier All true. Only nautical suicide bombing I could think of. The thought of how much explosives you could pack into a cargo ship is mind-bottling.
February 13Feb 13 15 minutes ago, BabaYaga said: JFC, two massive, slow moving ships collide? Was it like this? I wonder how far beforehand it was when the impact became inevitable? 15 minutes? 30? An hour?
February 13Feb 13 7 minutes ago, BabaYaga said: All true. Only nautical suicide bombing I could think of. The thought of how much explosives you could pack into a cargo ship is mind-bottling. Texas City and Halifax say hi
February 13Feb 13 2 minutes ago, FartingMonk said: Oh fuck off with that. Let's talk about the Truman.
February 13Feb 13 3 minutes ago, FartingMonk said: Oh fuck off with that. Let's talk about the Truman. Are we not?
February 13Feb 13 4 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said: How long until Trump and Hegseth blame it on DEI I may be wrong, but wasn't the offending ship black and making furtive movement?
February 13Feb 13 Popular Post 3 minutes ago, elfenix said: I wonder how far beforehand it was when the impact became inevitable? 15 minutes? 30? An hour? I think I've pieced the sequence of events together.
February 13Feb 13 29 minutes ago, Bill Brasky said: And it is at that instant when Captain Dave Snowden realized he would never make Admiral.
February 13Feb 13 46 minutes ago, bolverk said: I think I've pieced the sequence of events together. That's Mr Phlegm quality right there
February 13Feb 13 23 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said: Here is who probably gets the blame She would be part of the triad of leadership that usually gets let go because of this. An aircraft carrier is crazy though because there are at least 3 captains on board. Probably 4-5 if you count the medical corps.
February 13Feb 13 6 minutes ago, FartingMonk said: She would be part of the triad of leadership that usually gets let go because of this. An aircraft carrier is crazy though because there are at least 3 captains on board. Probably 4-5 if you count the medical corps. They’re all woke
February 13Feb 13 And it is at that instant when Captain Dave Snowden realized he would never make Admiral.Damnit. Dave is a good dude. I haven’t seen or talked to him in years but knew him well back in the day.
February 13Feb 13 7 minutes ago, Leeroy Jenkins said: Damnit. Dave is a good dude. I haven’t seen or talked to him in years but knew him well back in the day.
February 13Feb 13 1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said: Here is who probably gets the blame How the right sees her:
February 13Feb 13 Not the first time USN has had a collision in that patch of water. It's a highly congested area. This is one of the hardest force protection problems to crack - how do you keep threat actors away from high value assets in high traffic international straits? Without prior intelligence, large merchants are always going to be classified as a non-threat. They are simply a navigation problem to solve, not a threat to avoid or mitigate. It's not practical to maintain separation of more than a couple hundred yards max with these ships in some of the tighter areas. As the carrier, you can't really say, "500 yds and no closer" in tight areas like international straits. It's a bit of a different story with smaller craft. There is usually host nation security that will keep small craft outside of the carrier's security zone. We are reliant on host nation for the most part. We don't have patrol craft in this area to do surface interdiction of potential threat craft (we do have these in Djibouti, Fujairah, Jebel Ali/Dubai, Bahrain, and Kuwait), and they can't travel with a strike group. Escorts (DDGs and CGs) are too large themselves and the area is too congested for them to do threat interdiction. There was probably an armed SH-60 airborne doing nominal force protection duties.
February 13Feb 13 I think this is the first time I've heard of a carrier having a collision though. Yeah small boys and stuff hit in those areas 6-7 times a year. But a carrier is something new to me.
February 13Feb 13 1 minute ago, FartingMonk said: I think this is the first time I've heard of a carrier having a collision though. Yeah small boys and stuff hit in those areas 6-7 times a year. But a carrier is something new to me. Same. They are kind of a big deal. When you see how many supporting ships accompany them, it's wild. Sidenote - only surface ships can pass these straights, right? No subs? So if it's a battlegroup, they either divert others or they go around?
February 13Feb 13 4 minutes ago, BabaYaga said: Same. They are kind of a big deal. When you see how many supporting ships accompany them, it's wild. Sidenote - only surface ships can pass these straights, right? No subs? So if it's a battlegroup, they either divert others or they go around? Subs do a surface transit through the straits. The straits are pretty shallow and a sub would get sucked up by the bigger surface ship. It's also an act of war to be submerged in another country's property A submarine can become a surface ship at anytime. Hopefully Edited February 13Feb 13 by FartingMonk
February 13Feb 13 3 hours ago, FartingMonk said: In today's world unless that merchant ship lost power and made all indications that it lost steering to the Truman. They would have smoked that ship This is today’s world, and the Truman didn’t smoke it. Am I missing something or are you making the assumption that they communicated to the Truman that they’d lost steering? If that’s the case, then I guess everyone now knows how to sink a carrier
February 13Feb 13 1 hour ago, FartingMonk said: I think this is the first time I've heard of a carrier having a collision though. Yeah small boys and stuff hit in those areas 6-7 times a year. But a carrier is something new to me. JFK plowed over a dhow in NAG during OIF.
February 13Feb 13 6 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said: JFK plowed over a dhow First, "dhow" sounds like a word describing a type of woman. And in that case, JFK plowing her sounds entirely plausible.
February 13Feb 13 14 minutes ago, SquishMitten said: This is today’s world, and the Truman didn’t smoke it. Am I missing something or are you making the assumption that they communicated to the Truman that they’d lost steering? If that’s the case, then I guess everyone now knows how to sink a carrier Collisions are almost like they pointed out with the Austin Powers thing. I'm assuming the ship just drifted into it and there was nowhere else to maneuver.
February 14Feb 14 3 hours ago, FartingMonk said: A submarine can become a surface ship at anytime. Hopefully And a surface ship can become a submarine at any time, but only once.
February 14Feb 14 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said: This has not been my experience Well then you don't eat too much fiber.
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