Heavy Metal

67newport · Feb 6, 2021

One of the four main engines of USS CHANCELLORSVILLE (CG-62), a General Electric LM2500 gas turbine, removed for maintenance, Yokosuka, Japan, 06FEB21.

Polara_500 · Feb 6, 2021

67newport said:
USS Nimitz (CVN-68), the nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers USS Mississippi (CGN-40) and USS Texas (CGN-39), and the guided missile cruiser USS Biddle (CG-34), underway in the Mediterranean Sea, August 1981
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I was aboard the Missippissi when that photo was took.

Slap Stick · Feb 6, 2021

Ha..Missipissi....

67newport · Feb 6, 2021

Snotty · Feb 8, 2021

67newport said:
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Now I have Gordon Lightfoot in my head!!!

70bigblockdodge · Feb 9, 2021

67newport · Feb 9, 2021

The German warship Bismarck

67newport · Feb 9, 2021

Breech-side view of a 203 mm Modello 1927 twin mount being assembled in the factory, before being fitted onboard an Italian heavy cruiser

67newport · Feb 10, 2021

Today, February 10, 1906, HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, was christened.

67newport · Feb 10, 2021

Torpedo tubes on HMS Sheffield, with battlecruiser HMS Renown and carrier HMS Ark Royal in view, April 1941

67newport · Feb 10, 2021

The launching of the Italian dreadnought battleship Giulio Cesare at the Gio. Ansaldo & C. shipyard in Genoa, Italy. 15 October, 1911

Snotty · Feb 11, 2021

67newport said:
Today, February 10, 1906, HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, was christened.

On that day, designer Sir John Fisher quipped, "From now on man has but to fear God and Dreadnought." Ha! A play on the cliché, "Fear God and dread not."

67newport · Feb 11, 2021

USS Iowa (BB-61) and the USS Midway (CV-41) surrounded by other ships of Battle Group Alpha while underway in formation in the Indian Ocean, 1 December 1987.