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Last edited by Dreadnought; 19 Apr 13,, 01:54.Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.
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Originally posted by blackzz28 View Post@ this time 24 years ago we lost 47 brave men , please remember thier sacrificeAble to leap tall tales in a single groan.
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Originally posted by Dreadnought View Post*If you were running the real radars then you "should" have needed treated water as well. Some of the older WWII era radar sets were water cooled. Water that had to be treated first so it didnt leave deposites that would later rot holes in the cooling tubes.
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Originally posted by tbm3fan View PostOf course I meant spin the radars on their mounts. Now having been through all the radar rooms I have found only one power supply (wave generation) that actually has a water cooled hook up and it is on the O8 Level.
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Originally posted by Ytlas View PostAre your power supplies still running vacuum tubes? Modern electronics use demineralized water to cool the units and the pump rooms use chill water to cool the demineralized water. The SLQ 32 antennas have demineralized water plus glycol cooling.Attached Files
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Asked around on the ship today about our wheel and how we came to learn where it was. We knew that our scoreboard was removed so it could be sent to Pensacola where it hangs. No one knew how the wheel ended up at Lemoore Naval Air Station. We were tipped off, by someone in Bremerton, that Lemoore had our wheel. Told they denied it at first until Bremerton helped out. At that point they admitted they had it but weren't going to give it back. Well, as we know, they eventually saw the light.
Rusty, whoever has your wheel they maybe no more likely than Lemoore to say so. If it is on display somewhere then hopefully someone could tip you off as Bremerton did for us. Hopefully that since if hidden away it could be a long time.
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Didn't know where to stick this. Quick mention, looks like Counting Cars is at the Iowa tonight, July 15th
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The Iowa is certainly appearing on TV a lot lately. I watched the last half of the season opener of "Face Off" where aspiring make-up artists create fantasy critters with human models and are judged by some professional make-up artists. At the end of the episode was a trailer for an upcoming episode of "Face Off" showing the shows' hostess on the port 03 level aft Tomahawk deck. That shot was also apparently a drone as it zoomed away to show the entire ship.
On "The Last Ship", it was interesting to see Russian riflemen being shot down on the superstructure of (supposedly) a reactivated Kirov class Cruiser. But those twin 5"/38 mounts were a dead give-away it was the starboard side of the Iowa. I found that quite ironic. In a previous episode the crew of the American Arleigh Burke class Destroyer remarked that all the Kirov class Cruisers were mothballed in the 1990's. The irony is that it was the appearance of the USS Iowa and her three sisters coming back to life that drove the Kirov's into the ghost fleet.Able to leap tall tales in a single groan.
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Originally posted by Tom24 View PostNot all the Kirov's were decommissioned, Pyotr Velikiy was finally completed and entered service in 1998 and is still in service. The Admiral Nakhimov (ex Kalinin) is in the process of being reactivated.
Though Nuclear may not be the way to go with a missile Cruiser. Just looking over the first photos of a Kirov with some of my NAVSEA counterparts we noted that one 5"/38 common in all those launch tubes up forward could blow that ship to smitherings -- including the reactor.
Hmmm. Maybe a 5-incher would cause us to be a tad too close. A 16" Hi-Cap would be much better. Or a Harpoon at a much greater distance. A Tomahawk might be considered overkill but it would work just as well.
Just get upwind from the mushroom cloud.Able to leap tall tales in a single groan.
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