280PLUS
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OUCH!!!
Navy Speedster Doubles Up On Cutting-Edge Technology
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a -24 I think would work on a ship. The BLU-109 warhead it uses is designed to penetrate six feet of reinforced concrete(and turned out capable of much more). While it has less explosive in it than a Mk-84, it would be a nasty thing to have fall on your ship.
It's the standard load for the F-117, the last plane I worked on. Makes sense, if you think about it.
It's the standard load for the F-117, the last plane I worked on. Makes sense, if you think about it.
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HSV-2 is doing good work in Katrina relief.
Look at www.jerrypournelle.com , specifically his "Current Mail" for the last week. It seems that Dr. Jerry's son, Lt.Commander Phillip Pournelle USN, is the exec of said vessel, and has been sending his Dad emails, with pics, of what they've been up to.
Which is basically resupplying everybody with critical stuff, at high speed. I think he wrote that because they draw only 12 feet, they are the only halfway-sizable vessel able to get in and out of Pensacola, what with the obstructions and demolished nav-aids from the *previous* hurricanes.
Pournelle, Jr., writes of the tremendous damage to infrastructure- huge barges high and dry, yards inland from unbroken trees, and has some good quotes from Miss. River Pilots, too.
As some have written above, these new ships don't have very many in their complements, and Mr. Pournelle was concerned about the 40-odd folks they have just wearing themselves out with all of the physical labor.
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Look at www.jerrypournelle.com , specifically his "Current Mail" for the last week. It seems that Dr. Jerry's son, Lt.Commander Phillip Pournelle USN, is the exec of said vessel, and has been sending his Dad emails, with pics, of what they've been up to.
Which is basically resupplying everybody with critical stuff, at high speed. I think he wrote that because they draw only 12 feet, they are the only halfway-sizable vessel able to get in and out of Pensacola, what with the obstructions and demolished nav-aids from the *previous* hurricanes.
Pournelle, Jr., writes of the tremendous damage to infrastructure- huge barges high and dry, yards inland from unbroken trees, and has some good quotes from Miss. River Pilots, too.
As some have written above, these new ships don't have very many in their complements, and Mr. Pournelle was concerned about the 40-odd folks they have just wearing themselves out with all of the physical labor.
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"They smell beer."
Here's a sample:
www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/mail378.html#Phil8
That's a very geeky ship; I hear she runs open-source software, with Mozilla browsers in lieu of "steam gauges" in some places. Officers and men eat together. (Hey the design started as a luxury ferry!)
Pournelle the younger has geek cred too, being a published SF author and also the author of a thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School which would make yer brain hurt to read it.
Oh, she does have at least one gun, on the foredeck. You can see it in some of the pictures.
Here's a sample:
www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/mail378.html#Phil8
That's a very geeky ship; I hear she runs open-source software, with Mozilla browsers in lieu of "steam gauges" in some places. Officers and men eat together. (Hey the design started as a luxury ferry!)
Pournelle the younger has geek cred too, being a published SF author and also the author of a thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School which would make yer brain hurt to read it.
Oh, she does have at least one gun, on the foredeck. You can see it in some of the pictures.
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