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Blackstone

Brigadier
I love this silhouette of the USS Ramage (DDG 61).

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Ramage is currently underway participating with the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group
I love the greyhound lines of the Burks!
 

Jeff Head

General
Registered Member
Great video of Carney arriving at Rota.


You can clearly see her two Phalanx which are on the flight I and II Burkes.

I expect one of those will be replaced with the SeaRam when the time comes so they will have both.
 

FORBIN

Lieutenant General
Registered Member
Burke ABM 2015

Yet 5 Ticonderoga also are ABM ships with 27 Burke Fl I/II USN have only existing ships modernised no new with this capacity for a total of 32 ABM ships.

Conversions completed no new Ticonderoga and Burke/Austin.

The first new will be the first re-start Burke, DDG-113, in fact a Fl IIA/Austin normaly in service in 2016 and after 10 FlI IIA and 3 Fl III yet ordered then ABM ships number growth from 32 to 45 for 2022 about.

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Equiped with the new SM-3 block II/RIM-161D with a very improved range 1500 vs 700 km for SM-3 Block I/IA - RIM-161A/B and from 2016 the polyvalent SM-6 Dual I/RIM-174B SAM/ABM get a less long range vs BM 370 km but he is the SAM with the more long range never built !

No new ABM ship this year but some homeport changes about 3 :
Atlantic 16 : Norfolk 11( 2 Tico ), Mayport 1, Rota 4.
Pacific : 16 : S Diego 6 ( 1 ), P Harbor 4 (1 ), Yokosuka 6 ( 1 )
 

strehl

Junior Member
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I skimmed thru the previous posts and didn't see these videos posted so I will add them here. This was the Aegis Modernization program which had been intended to keep the older Tico's and Burke's up to date. Aegis is another one of these systems that pushed the boundaries and one of the first where the key element is actually the software.


 

Jeff Head

General
Registered Member
Here's some nice pics of the BMD launch by the USS Ross. First live fire Ballistic Missile shoot down (and it was successful) by one of the BMD AEGIS Burke in Europe:

1. Preparing to launch.
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2.Initiaiting launch:
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3. Missile away!USS-Ross-BMD-04.jpg

4. After launch:
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5. Missile in the air on the way to intercept.
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asif iqbal

Lieutenant General
Here is my repost on BMD

Also note currently by end of 2015 there is 33 BMD warships

By 2020 this number will be 48

Splits as follows

27 for CVN escorts
4 for Spain based in Rota
11 for Pacific and Japan

That's 48 BMD by 2020 but that means 39 that are deployable


JMSDF has 6 x BMD warships soon adding 2 more to have 8, JMSDF has conducted 4 BMD exo-atmosphere tests 3 of them were successful

In total there has been a total of 33 exo atmosphere BMD tests of which were 27 successful or 81%

There has been 5 endo atmosphere tests all successful

Total tests is therefore 38 of which 32 are successful or 84%

In 2008 a satellite was also shot down off Hawaii so including that 39 tests 33 successful or 85%
 

Jeff Head

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US Navy said:
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (NNS) -- The keel of the future USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) was authenticated during a ceremony at the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard Oct. 20.

The ship's keel was authenticated by its namesake, the Honorable Paul Ignatius and Mr. Bill Jones, the Hull Superintendent. Both authenticators etched their initials into the keel plate to symbolically recognize the joining of modular components and the ceremonial beginning of the ship.

"We are very honored that the namesake of DDG 117, The Honorable Paul Ignatius, is able to witness this milestone ceremony," said Capt. Mark Vandroff, DDG 51 class program manager, Program Executive Office (PEO) Ships. "Laying the keel breathes life into a ship and is the first major event in a shipbuilding program."

During World War II, Paul Ignatius served as a commissioned lieutenant in the Navy. Ignatius continued his service as Secretary of the Navy from 1967-1969 and later as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations and Logistics during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. The future USS Paul Ignatius is the 67th ship of the Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class and the first ship to bear his name.

Paul Ignatius, a Flight IIA ship, is the first ship in the FY2013-FY2017 multi-year procurement contract to start fabrication and is scheduled to deliver in 2018.

Upon joining the Fleet as the 67th DDG 51 class ship, she will serve as an integral player in global maritime security, engaging in air, undersea, surface, strike and ballistic missile defense.

As one of the Defense Department's largest acquisition organizations, PEO Ships is responsible for executing the development and procurement of all destroyers, amphibious ships, special mission and support ships, and special warfare craft. Currently, the majority of shipbuilding programs managed by PEO Ships are benefiting from serial production efficiencies, which are critical to delivering ships on cost and schedule.

She will be the 67th Burke class DDG. The vessels are being built at two locations, Bath Iron Works in Main, and at Huntington Ingalls in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
 
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