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2 EA-18 Growlers collided, but reports of 4 good chutes broadcasted over the PA.

One of my favorite battleships of the US turn of the century, Great White Fleet!!
Just weeks after HMS Dreadnought revolutionized naval warfare with her commissioning in late 1906, the U.S. Navy commissioned its lead Connecticut-class battleship, USS Connecticut (BB-18), on September 29, 1906. Yet the Navy continued building, and two years later commissioned the final pre-dreadnought: USS New Hampshire (BB-25), which entered service in March 1908.
A member of the Connecticut class, New Hampshire represented the peak of American pre-dreadnought design, with 16000 tons of coal-fired steel, a main battery of four 12-inch/45 caliber guns along withg a powerful secondary battery, and the oh so classic “cage” masts. She served through the Great White Fleet era, patrolled during the Mexican Revolution, and escorted convoys in World War I before being one of the last battleships scrapped under the Washington Naval Treaty.
Often overlooked in favor of her flashier dreadnought successors, New Hampshire was the final chapter of the U.S. Navy’s pre-dreadnought age.The end of an era just as the “All Big Guns”battleship revolution took over.

The first picture is actually another interesting topic. USS San Marco was the first US Battleship, USS Texas BB-1. Commissioned in 1895, she was sunk in shallow water in Tangier Sound in Chesapeake Bay on 21–22 March 1911 by gunfire from New Hampshire.

Few of the lesser seen images of BB-36 actually getting underway during the attack, and still on fire after the grounding.
#1. Nevada heading down channel, afire, and down at the bow. USS Shaw burning in YFD-2 Floating Drydock at left.

#2 Nevada coming down past the Navy Yards 1010 Dock.

#3 Seen from Ford Island. USS Avocet boom and flagstaff visible at left. Note Camouflage Measure 5 false bow wave.

#4 One of the more well known images of Nevada, aground.

#5 Down channel with USS Avocet AVP-4 in foreground with men on the gun mounts.

#6 Similar position as in 5.

#7 Afire, and down at the bow. Taken from Ford Island.

Have no idea where to post this, but I had to share it lol. I assumed it was just maybe a VPN or tracker error but I’m still waiting for an update lol

This could also probably flourish on the r/submechanophobia sub.

Sea based X-Band radar birdseye from 2008.

"The SBX-1 (Sea-Based X-Band Radar) is designed for long-range ballistic missile defense, capable of detecting and identifying objects as small as a baseball from distances up to 2,500–2,900 miles (roughly 4,000–4,700 km)."

“ A massive, self-propelled, mobile floating radar station designed for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to detect, track, and discriminate ballistic missile threats. Mounted on a semi-submersible platform, it operates in high winds and heavy seas, primarily in the Pacific, with a, at times, controversial high-cost development and specialized mission. It serves as a key sensor for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, providing precise target data to interceptors in Alaska and California.”

Disgusting. One of the worst I’ve came across organically.