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Don B
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Initially Posted - 03/31/2010 :  07:26:49  Show Profile
This bad boy just sailed into Key West...

http://www.ussindependenceship.org/

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/31/1555938/us-navys-newest-combat-ship-arrives.html

It just boggles my mind how far we have come since my Fast Frigate days in the 70's...
Don B
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Response Posted - 03/31/2010 :  07:56:07  Show Profile  Visit Unsinkable2's Homepage
Several years ago I lived along the channel entrance to Pearl Harbor. I could swim out to the deep water channel towers and watch the navy ships coming in or going out. It was truly fascinating.

One time I was watching a nuclear submarine coming in, and happened to jump in the water to do some snorkeling as it passed. I was so surprised to actually be able to hear the sonar pinging underwater with my bare ear. It sounded exactly like an old WWII movie - the loud pinging sound every couple of seconds. I was really surprised, I thought somehow that the sound was not actually audible to the human ear, or that some new technology would have been invented since wwII.
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Ben
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Response Posted - 03/31/2010 :  08:27:33  Show Profile
Yikes!!! Can you imagine that thing in the Gulf of Aden? No more pirate problem!
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OJ
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Response Posted - 04/01/2010 :  11:57:00  Show Profile
Looks like something Batman would skipper . . .
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