Heavy Metal

[67newport]

USS Texas (BB-35), USS Arkansas (BB-33) and USS Florida (BB-30) passing during the Presidential Navy Review on June 4, 1927.

 

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USS West Virginia (BB-48) approaching drydock at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 8 June 1942. She entered Drydock Number One on the following day, just over six months after she was sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid. Official U.S. Navy Photograph,

 

[67newport]

USS Texas (BB-35) in dry dock at Brooklyn Navy Yard getting her hull repainted, sometime between May 31 and June 18, 1934.

 

[amazinblue82]

"Shock" tests on the Gerald Ford. Makes sense they'd do that .. never heard of such a thing till today.

source: US military ‘shock trial’ explodes 20-tonne bomb near new 'Gerald R Ford' aircraft carrier

 

[Snotty]

A 20 ton bomb? That's 40,000 pounds; the Grand Slam Bomb of WWII was 25,000 pounds, and that's the largest that's ever been dropped. I think this is stated incorrectly.

 

[67newport]

Yamato Turret Weight Compared with Fletcher Class Destroyer

 

[67newport]

The German High Seas Fleet at sea, circa 1914

 

[67newport]

USS California (BB-44) during the interwar period, likely 1930's.

 

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USS Iowa (BB-61) on keel blocks in Dry Dock No. 4, Norfolk, Jan 5, 1985

 

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USS Bennington showing the damage to her flight deck after Typhoon Connie

 

[67newport]

The battleship HMS Howe, last of the King George V class, during trials in August 1942

 

[67newport]

USS Colorado (BB-45) comes about after making a wide turn, possibly near San Diego in October 1924.

 

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USS Franklin Aircraft Carrier 1945, Listing after being hit, WWII

 

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Battleship USS Wisconsin followed by USS Tripoli underway in the Persian Gulf during operation Desert Storm, 1991

 

[67newport]

USS Dewey DDG-45 (Farragut-class), 1979. Starboard bow view of the guided missile frigate during exercise Unitas XX, June 1, 1979

 

[67newport]

USS Halford in her original configuration DD 480 under way July 1943

 

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USS Nevada and USS Texas in Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, 14 May 1944

 

[amazinblue82]

Fastest miltary jet ever?

There's clickbait out there so don't bother getting spammed to death. The plane nuts probably already know without looking it up. Its back in this thread somewhere too .. i just found this pic cuz it has a bunch of contenders in this shot

The coolest?

of course, that's a matter of opinion ... I have mine all picked out though for a long time. X-Men comics (who i believe "stole it" from Nick Fury at SHIELD) in the 1960's showed me the way

 

[67newport]

USS Iowa squeezes through the Panama Canal's Pedro Miguel Locks, with just inches of clearance on each side.

 

[67newport]

Great view of USS Iowa as seen entering Majuro.