Photos United States Navy

[BravoZulu]

USS Preble (DDG 88) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer coming into San Diego - April 22, 2024

Nimitz class USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier leaving San Diego - April 24, 2024

Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) leaving Norfolk, Virginia for new homeport of Japan. April 25, 2024.

Dolphins riding the bow wave of future USS New Jersey (SSN 796). New Jersey was delivered to the USN 25th April, 2024. To be commissioned in Sept 2024

 

[BravoZulu]

**ALL MEMBERS**

Please read the "Help Save Our Home" thread below for the latest updates in regard to our financial situation.
https://militaryimages.net/threads/help-save-our-home.10764/page-3#post-312498
Basically our fundraising through the year has raised 80% of our needs however, we need a small kick to get us over the line for the next 12 months.
If you can spare the price of a coffee we will be set.

Normal programming now resumes

 

[BravoZulu]

MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima. Gulf of Aden 10-Jul-2021

 

[BravoZulu]

(March 29, 2011) CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 262 prepare to take off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) to deliver humanitarian assistance supplies. Essex, with the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU), is operating off the coast of Kesennuma in northeastern Japan to support Operation Tomodachi.

 

[BravoZulu]

Virginia-class Block III nuclear-powered attack submarine USS South Dakota (SSN-790) in the Trident Refit Facility, Kings Bay dry dock. In February 2024 she became the first Virginia-class fast attack submarine to enter Trident Refit Facility

 

[BravoZulu]

Seawolf-class nuclear-powered attack/special mission submarine USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) coming into San Diego on May 1, 2024.

 

[BravoZulu]

Nimitz class USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) arrives in Souda Bay, Crete, for a scheduled port visit on April 28, 2024

 

[BravoZulu]

PCU (Pre Commissioning Unit) Nantucket (LCS-27) heads out to Lake Michigan for acceptance trials. May 02, 2024

 

[BravoZulu]

Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) undocks. May, 2024

 

[BravoZulu]

USS Mahan (DDG 72) Arleigh Burke-class Flight II guided missile destroyer coming into Norfolk, Virginia - May 8, 2024

Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine coming into Pearl Harbor - May 8, 2024

 

[BravoZulu]

USAF A-10 Warthogs escorted the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska (SSBN 739) through the Strait of San Juan de Fuca as it departed on a patrol. 8 May 2024

 

[BravoZulu]

A Super Hornet attached to VFA 103 "Jolly Rogers" launches from USS George Washington (CVN 73) in the Atlantic Ocean on May 9, 2024

 

[BravoZulu]

Flight IIA Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) conducts routine underway operations in the South China Sea. May 10, 2024

Flight I Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) visits Naval Station Norfolk. May 10, 2024. Throughout the ship’s seven-month deployment, Carney successfully destroyed 45 Houthi-launched weapons, including land attack cruise cruise missiles, anti-ship ballistic missiles, and unmanned systems

 

[BravoZulu]

USS Augusta (LCS 34) Independence-variant littoral combat ship leaving San Diego - May 15, 2024

USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) Arleigh Burke-class Flight I guided missile destroyer leaving San Diego - May 15, 2024

USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer coming into Yokosuka, Japan - May 15, 2024

USNS Arctic (T-AOE-8) Supply-class fast combat support ship leaving Norfolk, Virginia - May 15, 2024

 

[Chazman]

PCU (Pre Commissioning Unit) Nantucket (LCS-27) heads out to Lake Michigan for acceptance trials. May 02, 2024
View attachment 477597
View attachment 477598
View attachment 477599

Interesting how most of the LCS will now NOT be decommissioned. The combining gears on the Freedoms will be repaired/replaced, both variants will get single crews, instead of the alternating blue/gold crews and much of the maintenance will be carried out by the crew as it is in other ships, instead of private contractors. The Freedoms will be based on the east coast in the surface warfare role and the Indy's on the west coast for surface warfare and mine countermeasures. I see lots of drone warfare in their future. There was an interesting podcast on Proceedings about them, on Youtube.

EDIT: Here it is. Worth a watch.

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[BravoZulu]

Interesting how most of the LCS will now NOT be decommissioned. The combining gears on the Freedoms will be repaired/replaced, both variants will get single crews, instead of the alternating blue/gold crews and much of the maintenance will be carried out by the crew as it is in other ships, instead of private contractors. The Freedoms will be based on the east coast in the surface warfare role and the Indy's on the west coast for surface warfare and mine countermeasures. I see lots of drone warfare in their future. There was an interesting podcast on Proceedings about them, on Youtube.

EDIT: Here it is. Worth a watch.

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

IMHO the USN is using them to fill the frigate role which they are eminently unsuited for until the new frigate class comes on line. The USN made a major mistake not replacing the OHP's with a new frigate class in the first place. The service is big enough to make these mistakes and learn from them though unlike other navies

 

[Chazman]

IMHO the USN is using them to fill the frigate role which they are eminently unsuited for until the new frigate class comes on line. The USN made a major mistake not replacing the OHP's with a new frigate class in the first place. The service is big enough to make these mistakes and learn from them though unlike other navies

100%! The first new frigates are years away and the two LCS variants have to fill the gap until then. We'll see what the navy does with them. Hopefully good value can be squeezed out of them.

 

[BravoZulu]

A landing craft, air cushion, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, enters the well deck of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset (LPD 25) during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Indonesia 2024 while underway in the Indian Ocean, May 16, 2024.

Freedom class LCS USS Marinette (LCS 25) leaving Norfolk, Virginia. May 16, 2024

ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 16, 2024) Name ship of the class, amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) launches a RIM-116 missile during the live-fire with a purpose (LFWAP) exercise.

 

[BravoZulu]

Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. (July 2002) -- An F/A-18D Hornet from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Three (VX-23) releases MK-83 1000 pound bombs during a series of Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) adjacent stores release tests over the Atlantic Test Range.

 

[BravoZulu]

USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer leaving San Diego - May 20, 2024

USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier leaving San Diego - May 21, 2024

USS George Washington (CVN 73) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and USNS John Lenthall (T-AO-189) Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - May 21, 2024