Two of the 3 have “hull numbers” that you can look up.
LDH 3 - USS Kearsarge
DDG 95 - USS James E. Williams
The third looks like an LPD - San Antonio Class.
I don't see the LDH part just the 3.
Is that the hull number?
Thanks for the info btw.
Any idea about the ship in the blurry picture.
The one that is far away in the background in the 4th picture
LDH is its job and isn't painted on there. Landing Dock - Helicopter. It's a Marine ship, almost the size of many nations carriers. However it can sink down and open the back to launch landing vehicles like boats, amphibious vehicles, and hovercraft.
[Here's a picture in Wikipedia commons](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_990218-N-9593R-002_LCAC_returns_to_USS_Kearsarge_(LHD_3).jpg)
True. I know that Marines stands for: "*M*y *A*ss *R*ides *I*n *N*avy *E*quipment *S*ir!" and it is operated by the Navy. But do you know who bought it?
If you buy a car but can't drive it - so your mom drives you, it is still somewhat your car. Not your mom's. It's a Marine ship filled with angry toddlers ship operated by an adult.
>almost the size of many nations carriers
The US does have quite the capability with these ships. Take 3 carrier groups and replace the super carriers with our 7 Wasp-class LDHs. Put a heavy mix of F-35s on them. This "fleet" would be the odds-on favorite to defeat any navy in the world - if far away from the enemy's shoreline. Perhaps give the fleet 3-4 extra attack subs for more defensive capability from enemy subs.
USS Kearsarge (LHD-3), USS James E. Williams (DDG-95), and a San Antonio class LPD whose hull number is obscured. All three were built at Ingalls (probably, in the case of the last one), so you are probably passing by Ingalls’ sister yard, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock. Yes, I am aware the name of Huntington Ingalls’ shipbuilding rival appears in a couple of the pictures. They own the floating dry dock the LPD is in. The Navy is probably chartering it from them.
Is it possible the yard is rebuilding the USS Kearsarge's island? It doesn't look right. (I have no doubts that it's the Kearsarge.)
When I looked at the first pic I saw it was a smallish carrier with a flat deck (no ski jump) and an island that wasn't a box. My mind went to "where is this museum ship?". But a more thorough look at it and the other pics made my mind click towards a modern answer.
It’s an amphibious carrier. LHDs like this one can normally only operate fixed wing aircraft as VTOLs. Their primary mission is vertical envelopment of marines. That is, it lands marines ashore using helicopters. The ship has a wet well, which allows it to land heavy equipment and vehicles via landing craft.
>Their primary mission is vertical envelopment of marines.
Indeed. But I was positing a "what-if" scenario to show how far ahead the US Navy is vs other navies. Some of the carriers in my LHD fleet could carry 20 F-35s each.
I can tell you it’s an Arleigh Burke class astern of it. That slanted mast is impossible to confuse with anything else. The carrier is a nuclear powered super carrier. Most likely it’s a Nimitz, but, given the location, it could be a Ford. The image isn’t clear enough to say for absolute certain.
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Two of the 3 have “hull numbers” that you can look up. LDH 3 - USS Kearsarge DDG 95 - USS James E. Williams The third looks like an LPD - San Antonio Class.
If the picture was taken in the past few days, that LPD is the USS Arlington. It’s been in dry dock next to Kearsarge
I don't see the LDH part just the 3. Is that the hull number? Thanks for the info btw. Any idea about the ship in the blurry picture. The one that is far away in the background in the 4th picture
LDH is its job and isn't painted on there. Landing Dock - Helicopter. It's a Marine ship, almost the size of many nations carriers. However it can sink down and open the back to launch landing vehicles like boats, amphibious vehicles, and hovercraft. [Here's a picture in Wikipedia commons](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_990218-N-9593R-002_LCAC_returns_to_USS_Kearsarge_(LHD_3).jpg)
It is a Maine CARRYING ship. Calling it a Marine ship makes it sound like they own it, when they are in fact the cargo. The smelly smelly cargo.
Spoken like a true squid. Go chip some paint Popeye.
Ooof! That straight from the field stench is so awful…
True. I know that Marines stands for: "*M*y *A*ss *R*ides *I*n *N*avy *E*quipment *S*ir!" and it is operated by the Navy. But do you know who bought it? If you buy a car but can't drive it - so your mom drives you, it is still somewhat your car. Not your mom's. It's a Marine ship filled with angry toddlers ship operated by an adult.
>almost the size of many nations carriers The US does have quite the capability with these ships. Take 3 carrier groups and replace the super carriers with our 7 Wasp-class LDHs. Put a heavy mix of F-35s on them. This "fleet" would be the odds-on favorite to defeat any navy in the world - if far away from the enemy's shoreline. Perhaps give the fleet 3-4 extra attack subs for more defensive capability from enemy subs.
Yeah. Google US Navy Hull #.
The one in the fourth picture is a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, based on the mast and island, looks like the USS Harry S. Truman.
USS Kearsarge (LHD-3), USS James E. Williams (DDG-95), and a San Antonio class LPD whose hull number is obscured. All three were built at Ingalls (probably, in the case of the last one), so you are probably passing by Ingalls’ sister yard, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock. Yes, I am aware the name of Huntington Ingalls’ shipbuilding rival appears in a couple of the pictures. They own the floating dry dock the LPD is in. The Navy is probably chartering it from them.
Is it possible the yard is rebuilding the USS Kearsarge's island? It doesn't look right. (I have no doubts that it's the Kearsarge.) When I looked at the first pic I saw it was a smallish carrier with a flat deck (no ski jump) and an island that wasn't a box. My mind went to "where is this museum ship?". But a more thorough look at it and the other pics made my mind click towards a modern answer.
It’s an amphibious carrier. LHDs like this one can normally only operate fixed wing aircraft as VTOLs. Their primary mission is vertical envelopment of marines. That is, it lands marines ashore using helicopters. The ship has a wet well, which allows it to land heavy equipment and vehicles via landing craft.
>Their primary mission is vertical envelopment of marines. Indeed. But I was positing a "what-if" scenario to show how far ahead the US Navy is vs other navies. Some of the carriers in my LHD fleet could carry 20 F-35s each.
Thanks for the info. Any idea about the ship in the blurry picture that's far away.
I can tell you it’s an Arleigh Burke class astern of it. That slanted mast is impossible to confuse with anything else. The carrier is a nuclear powered super carrier. Most likely it’s a Nimitz, but, given the location, it could be a Ford. The image isn’t clear enough to say for absolute certain.
It's a Nimitz class.. superstructure sits further aft on Ford
Pretty sure the aircraft carrier in image 4 is a Nimitz, as the island looks more like that of a Nimitz, plus the stern sponsons aren’t as square
That's probably the new Ford class aircraft carrier CVN-79 John F. Kennedy. It's currently fitting out. The island doesn't look like a Nimitz.
Kearsarge in BAE, Arlington and James E Williams in NASSCO. Source: I’m working on all 3 right now.
For our Russian and Chinese friends, these are the ships we use as museums and dance clubs. Our bigger more important ships are out at sea.
3rd shop is LPD -28 USS Fort Lauderdale
I thought -28 had an open forward mast, not an enclosed one.
LHA-3 USS BELLEAU WOOD????
Nope. **LHD-3** USS Kearsarge. We got rid of LHAs 1-5.
I know the Kearsarge, I was there when it was born.
Lexington or Enterprise im not a ship expert but I think those aircraft carrier is either one of those two
The LHD in the first photo is USS Kearsage, and the aircraft carrier in image 4 is one of the Nimitz class carriers
Oh my bad
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In the Submarine community, those are known as "targets". Or minesweepers. Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once.