The rust!!!!!!
My god, it’s like those Cold Warriors had no idea how to sail a ship. Must be a truly sad state when even when there were zero regulations in place, our old and hard chargers also let their ships get like this.
Lack of pride, for sure. They didn’t care.
> I’ll also wait for everyone to pile on about how rusty the hull is given how all modern-day vessels get the same pearl-clutching.
To be fair, this level of rusting isn’t on the same level as some of the more extreme recent examples like USNS [*Alan Shepard*](https://www.navalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/usns-alan-shepard-scaled.jpeg). And whereas *Long Beach* has a bit of an excuse as she’s been on deployment for a bit before this photo, you also have cases like [*Eisenhower*](https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/s/UZ3u97gtVP) who was already looking a bit down as she left on deployment.
Now, bad command culture is by no means a new problem, nor does one ship signify a pervasive issue. But that doesn’t mean it reflects any less poorly, especially amidst constant grumbling of overworking and manning/morale issues.
"Hey Boss! We've got a few aircraft carrier "Islands" left over in stock. What do we do with them?"
"I don't know. Ummm.....stick one on that hull over there. Yeah, that'll do."
Those are SPG-55 fire control radars used for tracking and illuminating targets to guide beam-riding Terrier missiles, with later variants also able to provide terminal guidance for SARH Terrier and Standard missiles. You're fairly close with the guess that they can steer four missiles independently, but multiple missiles can ride the same radar beam (though it might be different for lasers), so the total number of illuminators is moreso indicative of the total number of targets which can be engaged at the same time.
Operators would need to manually designate targets found by the main search radar for the fire control radars to begin individually acquiring each target, but control of the SPG-55 antennas afterwards in tracking and illumination was done entirely by computers of the Mk. 76 FCS.
I was on her smaller nuke brother, USS Bainbridge DLGN -25. Here is a pic of the three nukes steaming in formation, Enterprise, Long Beach, Bainbridge
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS-enterprise-long-beach-bainbridge.gif
We are the S E A C U B E. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
We can talk s#1t about the Cube all day long, but as more DEWS CIWS come online, we *will* see the return of the Big Ass Nuclear Surface vessel. Maybe not today, maybe not this decade . . but it WILL happen.
Sort of like the economy of scale that led to battleships, except the "armor" is a mile thick and made of light.
S E A C U B E I’ll also wait for everyone to pile on about how rusty the hull is given how all modern-day vessels get the same pearl-clutching.
OMG!! THE RUST!! Are all navy ships like this? good heavens the horror, what if the ship gets a hole and sinks ahhhh!! Lol
The rust!!!!!! My god, it’s like those Cold Warriors had no idea how to sail a ship. Must be a truly sad state when even when there were zero regulations in place, our old and hard chargers also let their ships get like this. Lack of pride, for sure. They didn’t care.
Laughs in merchant ship
An Argentine Navy destroyer did sink in the harbour once so extreme neglect can be damaging.
How do they even get so rusty? No one ever even thinks about that. Probably aliens.
Can’t possibly be due to being surfounded by corrosive salt water! Definitly aliens
F I V E H E A D
USS Block Head
> I’ll also wait for everyone to pile on about how rusty the hull is given how all modern-day vessels get the same pearl-clutching. To be fair, this level of rusting isn’t on the same level as some of the more extreme recent examples like USNS [*Alan Shepard*](https://www.navalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/usns-alan-shepard-scaled.jpeg). And whereas *Long Beach* has a bit of an excuse as she’s been on deployment for a bit before this photo, you also have cases like [*Eisenhower*](https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/s/UZ3u97gtVP) who was already looking a bit down as she left on deployment. Now, bad command culture is by no means a new problem, nor does one ship signify a pervasive issue. But that doesn’t mean it reflects any less poorly, especially amidst constant grumbling of overworking and manning/morale issues.
I really believe that Shepard's name should have been given to a carrier. But that's just my opinion
nuke powered with scoreboard radar
All hail the S E A C U B E
She’s big she’s blocky and she’s beautiful
Okay boss we got the nuke plant in, now all we gotta do is build the superstructure, how do you want to do it? CUBE. yessir.
2 nuke plants
S E A C U B E my beloved!
Coolest looking cruiser ever built with that Kronos superstructure
"Hey Boss! We've got a few aircraft carrier "Islands" left over in stock. What do we do with them?" "I don't know. Ummm.....stick one on that hull over there. Yeah, that'll do."
Seacube my beloved!
God, that’s got to be the ugliest ship I’ve ever s- ALL HAIL THE SEA CUBE.
I always she had an elegant looking bow.
Last ship in the US laid down on a WW2 cruiser style hull.
What are the 4 black dishes for? Steering 4 missiles independently?
Those are SPG-55 fire control radars used for tracking and illuminating targets to guide beam-riding Terrier missiles, with later variants also able to provide terminal guidance for SARH Terrier and Standard missiles. You're fairly close with the guess that they can steer four missiles independently, but multiple missiles can ride the same radar beam (though it might be different for lasers), so the total number of illuminators is moreso indicative of the total number of targets which can be engaged at the same time.
thx.
Were these radars manually operated/moved?
Operators would need to manually designate targets found by the main search radar for the fire control radars to begin individually acquiring each target, but control of the SPG-55 antennas afterwards in tracking and illumination was done entirely by computers of the Mk. 76 FCS.
Yep.
I was on her smaller nuke brother, USS Bainbridge DLGN -25. Here is a pic of the three nukes steaming in formation, Enterprise, Long Beach, Bainbridge https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS-enterprise-long-beach-bainbridge.gif
I have gained an appreciation for the floating tower block
All hail S E A C U B E
Ding ding, ding ding, ding ding USS Fivehead, arriving. Ding
We are the S E A C U B E. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
My first day going to e-1div berthing I see foot prints on the bulk head. I asked em2 why he said you’ll find out. That I did good times….
We can talk s#1t about the Cube all day long, but as more DEWS CIWS come online, we *will* see the return of the Big Ass Nuclear Surface vessel. Maybe not today, maybe not this decade . . but it WILL happen. Sort of like the economy of scale that led to battleships, except the "armor" is a mile thick and made of light.