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Thought I'd start a new warships thread. Post whatever you have that looks dramatic, especially if you have non-USN pictures.
I'll start off with some JMSDF pictures. This is the Marusame-class.
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
If I recall correctly, those Israeli Sa'ar V corvettes were built at Litton Ingalls Shipyard in the US.
Here is USS Midway getting ready to take on her final duty as a museum ship
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
Actually, I'm pretty sure that's the Intrepid early on in her (hopefully!) never-ending tour of duty as a museum ship.
It doesnt look like USS Growler and USS Edson have joined her yet, not to mention some of the more striking aircraft in her 'airwing', like the A-12 Blackbird or the Polish Air Force MiG-21 Fishbed that currently make up her composite Air Wing.
To date, the only carrier museums are made up of former Essex-class carriers, but USS Midway will soon shatter this decades-old monopoly.
The big question is, can more carrier museums be financial successful enough to survive?
There are several more carriers that might be available as museums and not all of them will be able to be supported in a fiscal sense.
mean, let's look at this logically. There are only so many carrier-capable berths on the East and West coasts of the United States and you can't have them virtually packed with museum ships. The public will only go to so many museum ships. It has to be a relatively unique experience that can't be found for hundreds of miles around.
The sad reality is, many of the decommisioned carriers will have to be scrapped in order that some few can survive as memorials to the men who served on them.
Oh man, this is depressing me just thinking about it. And to think that it was really USS Enterprise (CV-6) getting scrapped that shocking warship enthusiasts into realizing that these ships were a 'save them or lose them' proposition. After the Big E was scrapped, suddenly the public realized how precarious these historic ship's existence really
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
Nice pics Snipe and Squirt.
I've always liked the Kuznetsov...even though I'm not a fan of ski-jumps
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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