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Virginia Class Submarine




General Dynamics Electric Boat delivered the latest Virginia class submarine to the U.S. Navy, ahead of schedule on December 22, 2006. Hawaii (SSN-776) is the third ship of the Virginia Class, the US Navy's first major class of combatant ships designed for operation in both littorals and the open oceans.

In December 2006 General Dynamics' Electric Boat corp. was awarded $1.274 Billion modification to a multi-year contract supporting for Fiscal Year 2007 construction of Virginia Class Submarine (SSN 782) and Advance Procurement funding for the forthcoming sub, submarine (SSN 783) scheduled for FY08.

The Virginia class submarine has one of the most advanced torpedo delivery systems in the fleet. In addition to torpedoes, the Virginia-class will be armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles and has been designed to host the Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS) and Dry-Deck Shelter to support various missions.



Electric Boat and Northrop Grumman Newport News have received contracts to build the first 10 submarines of a planned 30-ship Virginia Class under a teaming agreement that splits the construction workload between the two shipyards. Three submarines completed construction and are undergoing sea trials - SSN-774 Virginia, SSN-775 Texas and most recently, SSN-776 Hawaii. SSN-777 North Carolina is currently under construction at Newport News.

Kollmorgen Corporation, Electro-Optical Division has been awarded US$17.5 million to exercise an option for the production of nine Integrated Submarine Imaging Systems (ISIS). ISIS provides an all-weather, visual and electronic search capabilities for SSN 688, SSN 21, and SSGN Class submarines.

Digital System Resources, Inc., a subcontractor of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems was also awarded $6.6 million for the production of three Photonics Mast Workstations (PMW). These workstations will be installed on Virginia Class Submarines. This order follows the original ten PWM systems ordered in 2005. Photonics Mast Workstations are integrated into the Photonics Mast System, a non-hull-penetrating imaging system replacing conventional periscopes in modern submarines. (More on th Photonics Mast: Defenseindustrydaily and Howtuffworks)


fonte: DEFENSE-UPDATE

Mas esse é um tópico geral sobre notícias da Marinha norte americana?

É que ela é tão grande e diversificada que dava direito a uma secção inteira

E já há tópicos mais atrás sobre algumas das classe de navios da US Navy.

Creio que seja melhor continuarmos com esse tópico e centralizarmos o máximo possível aqui Rui.

Pouco ou quase nada se fala da marinha americana aqui no DB. Como não tenho muito conhecimentos navais... Estarei atento para aprender com os amigos...

Abraços!

Eu achva melhor criar um tópico para cada Nacionalidade de Marinha, e depois no tópico fixo acima ir pondo os links, evitavam-se tantas dispersões...

Aliás criei este tópico porque ~já nem sabia onde postar a noticia

Acho boa ideia

Rui Elias Maltez escreveu:Acho boa ideia

Vê o que escrevi nas "regras"

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Last Flight for Six H-3 Helos


(Source: US Navy; issued Jan. 21, 2007)



CORONADO, Calif. --- Six H-3 Sea King helicopters attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 85 performed their last operational flight Jan. 20, at Naval Air Station North Island.

The Sikorsky H-3 Sea King helicopter has been in service with military and civilian operators around the world for more than 40 years. Navy Sea Kings are being retired and replaced by the H-60 Seahawk helicopter.

“The transition will allow us to focus on one type of model series helicopter; for us that’s a good thing,” said Master Chief Aviation Warfare Systems Operator (AW/NAC) Michael Curry. “It will also allow us to focus more on our new training mission.”

The Navy decided to decommission the H-3 Sea King and move to the H-60 Seahawk to lighten the workload on its people after recognizing the amount of maintenance needed to keep them operational.

“I’m going to miss the H-3, but the new helicopters are much younger, faster, stronger and don’t vibrate," said Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 1st Class (AW/NAC) Kidd Douglous. "It’s going to bring us new missions as well as capabilities.”

HSC-85 has flown the Sikorsky H-3 Sea King helicopter to launch and recover mobile anti-submarine warfare targets and torpedoes for the last 34 years in four configurations. The squadron began with the SH-3A model, worked its way through the SH-3D and SH-3H, and most recently the UH-3H.

“The H-3 helos are phenomenal aircraft,” said Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 1st Class Todd Jarrells. “They are really nice to fly and real smooth; [and] I’m going to miss them quite a bit.”

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LISTA DE ABATES PARA 2007:

January 12, 2007 USS Salvor (ARS 52) Pearl Harbor, Hi. transfer to MSC
January 17, 2007 USS Trenton (LPD 14) Norfolk, Va.
January 22, 2007 USS Ogden (LPD 5) San Diego, Calif
March 1, 2007 USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 709) Portsmouth, Va.
April 27, 2007 USS Saipan (LHA 2) Norfolk, Va.
September 26, 2007 USS Safeguard (ARS 50) Sasebo, Japan transfer to MSC
September 27, 2007 USS Minneapolis - St. Paul (SSN 708)
September 28, 2007 USS Shreveport (LPD 12) Norfolk, Va.
September 30, 2007 USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) Mayport, Fla.
September 30, 2007 USS Honolulu (SSN 718) Bremerton, Wash.
September 30, 2007 USS Heron (MHC 52) Ingleside, Tx.
September 30, 2007 USS Pelican (MHC 53) Ingleside, Tx.

fonte: http://www.navysite.de/decom.htm

os amigos brasileiros podem começar uma vaquinhsa e comprar o Kennedy

Pows o Ultimo CVN Catolico

Esse LHA 2 o USS Saipan seria uma boa compra para o Brasil.

Deve estar um pouco velho, mas pensem que o A-12 também não é novo.

Einsamkeit escreveu:Pows o Ultimo CVN Catolico

Não é cvN

É só "CV", é um PA convencional

Com o abate do CV-67, a USN apenas ficará com 1 PA convencional , o KITTY HAWK baseado no Japão

(o Japão não permite o estacionamento de CVNs, daí ou os americanos o mantêm a navegar ou procuram outro sitio para o ter estacionado que não Okinawa)

LCS CLASSRON Established


(Source: US Navy; dated Feb. 20, web-posted Feb. 21, 2007)



SAN DIEGO --- The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Class Squadron (CLASSRON) was formally established Feb. 15 in San Diego.

Vice Adm. T.T. Etnyre, Commander, Naval Surface Force, joined Capt. John Riley, the new CLASSRON commodore, to cut the ribbon at the new command’s headquarters.

While the first two ships of the LCS class are still under construction, the staff of the new CLASSRON will still be extremely busy with all of the challenges associated with developing new processes to support these 21st-century warships.

The first four ships in the class each have blue and gold crews that will consist of 40 personnel. The aviation detachment will be comprised of 20 personnel, and the mission modules that can be changed depending on the ship’s tasking will comprise of 15 personnel.

The audience on hand in San Diego included staff members from the new LCS CLASSRON, crew members from the pre-commissioning units for USS Freedom (LCS 1), USS Independence (LCS 2), and Sailors assigned to the mission modules for mine warfare and anti-submarine warfare. Crew members from remaining unnamed vessels (LCS 3) and (LCS 4) also attended.

“I am pleased to finally have the chance to talk to the Sailors who will man the ships and the LCS CLASSRON,” said Etnyre.

While this ceremony was held on the San Diego waterfront, three other CLASSRONs were established at other locations across the country. The Patrol Coastal (PC) CLASSRON was established in Norfolk; the Guided-missile Frigate (FFG) CLASSRON in Mayport, Fla. and the Mine Countermeasure (MCM) CLASSRON in Ingleside, Texas. Four additional CLASSRONs are expected to begin operations later this spring.

The new CLASSRONs will be engaged in the training, maintaining, manning and logistics processes. Most importantly, they will do this for an entire class of ships. Regardless of where a ship is homeported, the CLASSRON staffs will be focused on providing combat-ready warships to the operational commanders.

The CLASSRONs will not replace the existing Afloat Training Groups or Type Commands (TYCOM). They will provide the Immediate Senior in Command and TYCOM with the ability to find process inefficiencies and to apply resources to achieve desired results. Creation of the CLASSRONs was an outgrowth of the Surface Warfare Enterprise.

Commanders Mike Doran, David Haas, and Curt Renshaw, three of the four commanding officers of the pre-commissioning crews of Freedom and Independence, each took time to praise their Sailors. They emphasized that their crew members are more than numbers in a PowerPoint brief, and that their training and detailing will become the model for the future of the entire Navy.

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DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer

DDG 1000 is the first in a class of the U.S. Navy's multi-mission surface combatants tailored for land attack and littoral dominance. The ship's mission is to provide affordable, credible, independent forward presence and deterrence and to operate as an integral part of naval, joint or combined maritime forces. DDG 1000 will provide advanced land attack capability in support of ground campaigns and will contribute naval, joint or combined battlespace dominance in littoral operations. DDG 1000 is in an advanced state of development and will influence ship design worldwide for the remainder of the century.

Each DDG 1000 will carry 20 VLS missile launchers distributed along the periphery of the ship. These launchers could be loaded with Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles (TLAM), and Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) and Standard type air defense missiles. The MK57 features an open architecture, modular electronics design that provides a significant advantage for the integration of new missile systems without requiring modification of the launcher control software. This design will result in faster, more efficient system upgrades, as well as save significant costs and time for the Navy. raytheon and BAE Systems demonstrated the first test firing of MK57 system in February 2007.



On January 2007 the U.S. Navy awarded over half billion US$ for continued detailes design of the Zumwalt class destroyer, DDG-1000. Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was awarded US$268 million and General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works was awarded $257 million, bringing the total value spent on the new class' design to $644 million. The contract funds further DDG 1000 detail design and procurement of vendor-furnished information and long-lead materials and runs through 2013.

By February 2007 Raytheon was awarded about US$300 million contract to support the development of the vessel's Mission System Equipment (MSE). In addition to the Mark 57 Vertical Launcher System, the MSE includes the ship's computing environment infrastructure; acoustic sensor suite elements, such as the bow array sensor suite; dual band radar; electro-optic/infrared sensor; ship control system; identification of friend or foe; common array power and cooling systems and various electronic module enclosures.

Under the Navy's DDG 1000 Design, Development and Integration contract awarded in 2005, Raytheon IDS serves as the prime mission systems equipment integrator for all electronic and combat systems for the DDG 1000 program. BAE Systems serves as the design agent for the MK57 and is responsible for building the launcher for the DDG 1000 destroyer.



Copyright 2007, Defense Update

Meu inglês é sofrível...

O DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer , se trata de um projeto "conceito" ou algo que realmente esta em andamento

Abraços!

3 Austin descomissionados.

Alguma chance de virem para a MB ?

Sniper escreveu:Meu inglês é sofrível...

O DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer , se trata de um projeto "conceito" ou algo que realmente esta em andamento

Abraços!

Está em andamento pois, é a mais recente "loucura", um couraçado do séc XXI....

O Sintra tinha por aí um tópico bem interessante, onde se discutia a eficácia (ou falta dela) deste monstro de biliões de dólares...destinado a bombardeamentos costeiros