She's lightly armed for such a large ship - at least large in terms of the US Coast Guard. The Famous-class still sports the rapid-fire 76mm, as does the Hamilton-class, which I think the Heritage-class is meant to replace. I know the USCG downgraded a lot of its weapons systems after the end of the Cold War, but it's interesting how much more lightly armed they all seem to be getting despite how involved they are in the South Pacific.
@@sword_of_light Yeah but I wouldn't be to worried about it thought. The U.S. Coast Guard don't rarely ever participate in any global war besides search and rescue mission. The closest danger would probably be engaging in piracy or drug smuggling. Also arming them would be costly since they also have to account for personals who needs to be trained to operate and maintaining the weapons. As for the large size, this would be good for the Coast Guard to traverse across the Ocean for instance going to Hawaii or Alaska if need be.
@@zeroinfinity9189 - No. The US Coast Guard has been fighting global conflicts since the French Quasi-War of 1798. They were escorting convoys in WWII, as well as piloting landing craft. A Coast Guardsman named Douglas A. Munro was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for leading the rescue of three Marine companies during the Battle of Guadalcanal. In the Vietnam war, the US Coast Guard were the first US vessels to patrol the Mekong Delta, as the US Navy at the time had no shallow-draft vessels that could navigate the river. Currently, the Coast Guard has numerous vessels deployed in the South Pacific at the request of allied nations like the Philippines, to counter-act aggression by Chinese militia vessels pretending to be fishermen. If conflict with China occurs, the US Coast Guard will likely be the ones first on the scene.
@@sword_of_light Heritage class is replacing the Reliance class of Medium endurance cutters. (NSC class is replacing the Hamiltons) The main reason that the USCG Famous class had so many 76mm guns is they harvested them off the Perry class frigates as they were retiring. It was "upgunned" -- the Reliance mediums had the same 25mm guns as the Heritage secondary mounts. So they are more equipped than their predecessor. (personally I think they need a SeaRAM and CWIS for close in antimissile defense) Famous class are still in service into the 2030s.
@@redwolfexr - I agree that more defensive measures need to be in place if we're dealing with the Chinese. But, you're always fighting the last war. I remember the Hamiltons got CWIS, and I don't think that was removed after the Cold War. But there need to be drone defenses, at least, on all the cutters. What worries me the most however isn't the ships or the guns. It's the failing helo fleet. The Jayhawks were starting to show their age when I was in, and the Dolphins were state of the art, but that was 40 years ago. And I haven't heard any good news about replacements or funding.
@eliot5100 no way, no US Navy warship of the line commissioned since WWII could only make 20 kn! Unless a minesweeper or amphib, not a ship of the line, at least 30 kn, usually 34+. The USS Kitty Hawk CV63 did 32 during OPPE full boiler flex and flank speed trials, I was on it in 1998.
@@victorglaviano You obviously didn't read my answer. YOU NEVER GIVE ANY INFORMATION THAT CAN BE USED TO CONFIRM A SHIPS CAPABILITIES. Its called OPSEC - Operational Security. You never show a potential enemy your true capabilities.
While I always like a good warship, the ship I would really like to see built are a couple of new Hospital ships. Sure, they're not that dramatic, but we only have two and they're aging repurposed oilers, we could use a couple new ones built for the purpose.
@@Glenn-em3hv Unfortunately that wouldn't work, the halls are too narrow, the rooms are completely unsuited for patient care, the bridge is Civilian design, not Military, they'd have to be completely remodeled top to bottom
It’s about goal post to goal post on a football field and a little narrower than said same football field……Not nearly as roomy as one might expect even at that size.
They decommissioned the first group of Littoral combat ships because they were defective. Issues with the power plant with one class and hull on the other, being two of the larger issues. From what I’ve heard they fixed the issues and that’s why they’re moving forward. However, if I’m wrong it wouldn’t surprise me that they still move forward…. If they work, they’ll come in handy in east Asia.
@@MattyJ55046YOUR RIGHT! 50 MILES AN HOUR! THEY'RE PUTTING 8 NSM's ON THEM! ( NAVAL STRIKE MISSILES) THEY CAN OPERATE ON SHALLOW WATERS AND ON RADAR BLEND IN WITH THE HUNDREDS OF SMALL ISLANDS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND ISLAND CHAINS ISLAND! 🏝️ ⛓️ THEY EACH HAVE A ANTI SUBMARINE HELICOPTER. SO THE LCS ARE NOT THE LAME DUCKS MOST OF YOU ADMIRALS MAKE THEM OUT TO BE!
The Freedom and Independence class ships have been a complete failure. The navy has decommissioned ships from these classes in as little as five years since their commission. The fact we are still building these ships in spite of their shortcomings is an example of our government ineptness.
The original idea behind them is sound, but for all practical purposes, the early ships of both classes ended up as test beds as they figured out what does work and what doesn’t work. That said, both classes ended up as victims of feature bloat, as the Navy tried to make them into mini Arleigh Burkes, with the capacity a little bit of everything.
If I were younger and had the chops I'd want to fly a fighter jet and being on a carrier seemed harder than an air strip, but thinking it through it seems being a Naval Aviator is something of a deathwish.
@@paulmicheldenverco1 I was in my teens when Top Gun hit the theaters and even though I lived in another country at the time, it was absolutely awe inspiring. Thirty seven years later as we left the cinema after watching Top Gun Maverick my USNA son said: Dad, you know I could apply for flight school to become a Navy pilot. He decided to pursue the submarine fleet instead. I think we watched The Hunt for Red October and Crimson Tide too often ;-)
That means he will have to become a nuclear engineer. After serving on subs for over twenty years (sonar tech) most nuclear officers given a choice to go back in time and be a nuclear engineer or an inmate at a maximum security prison, ninety-nine percent would choose prison.
@@almoemason He already did 12 months of the enlisted nuclear propulsion training in SC prior to enrolling at the USNA. He was first in his Power School class, which helped to get him into the USNA. He'll have to redo Power School and take the officer's version and then Prototype. He also mentioned that the attrition rate is high for Nukes.
@@captainamerica3814 They can, in theory. But with all the pressure on the Navy to be everywhere these days, these new ships are going to be used hard and this will lead to their fuel-pile getting depleted faster, so when they go to get new radars and catapults and lifts in 20-25 years they may as well include refueling the reactors.
@clifford4514 probably won't be anymore cruisers, DDGs like Arleigh Burke class have AEGIS, TLAMs and there's no other capital ships in other navies except for Russia with outdated heavy cruisers full of guns! Outdated, expensive and probably could pay for 1.5 Arleigh Burke's for the price of a new Tico class CG. Also the Navy ordered a bunch of new Constellation class FFGs (Italian Fincantieri class frigates).
Need more submarines. Germany almost won both world wars with submarines alone. Similarly, America devastated the Japanese supply lines in WW2. Hard to detect and can carry special forces, cruise missiles and torpedoes. The surface ships are needed to protect the carrier. Problem is that you need a very highly nuclear power trained crew. Hard enough to recruit people for non-nuclear surface ships.
@hjusn absolutely incorrect, in fact Germany's lack of an effective surface fleet, lack of surface warfare skills allowed the Royal Navy to control the English channel, keep the shipping lanes open and Germany had no Amphibious capability. If Germany had a good fleet of general purpose surface combatants like destroyers and cruisers, couple aircraft carriers Amphibious ships with Naval Infantry or Marines in early 41 they could have blockaded the English ports causing lack of supply, RN Naval base at Portsmouth and landed an amphibious force establishing a beach head supported by surface combatants, CAS and U-Boats could have sunk merchant shipping and possibly invaded the UK before 1942, things may have been different. Look at the Kriegamarine lack of surface Naval skills, no US, UK or even IJN Captain would have taken a huge Battleship into restricted waterways like the fjords. The British were scared shitless of the Graf Spie and I can't remember the name of the other one, until they saw the inexperience and absolute ignorant move by Germany and then probably thought what a bunch morons, it was unable to maneuver and fire although it had superior weapons and range. But the British were masters of naval warfare along with the US and Japan (carbon copy of the RN). BTW, the Aircraft Carrier is what won the war in the Pacific, not submarines. Before late 43, submarines weren't being used correctly by the US, they were mostly used to collect intelligence and watch the IJN transit and move troops to the Solomons, Boganville, and Guadalcanal. Although the US had a great submarine, but horrible torpedoes until then, with a failure rate as high as 40% - 50%. The Battle of Coral Sea was the battle that changed Naval warfare forever, it over a few days made the Carrier the Battle Group the capital ship and the Battleship on its way to the scrap yard. Hence why today the modern fleet has the Carrier Battle Group (CVBG) not the Submarine Battle Group! SSNs are a part of CVBG, usually 2 Las Angeles Class, Seawolf Class or Virginia Class. First Naval battle where neither side saw one another on each other's ships, only aircraft. NO MAJOR NAVAL POWER HAS EVER BEEN DOMINANT OR VICTORIOUS WITH SUBMARINES AS THE MAIN SHIP OF THE LINE, NONE! By early 44 the casualty rate for U-Boats was the highest amongst land, sea and air units, 50% casualties, essentially a suicide mission. You're not versed in Naval warfare, I spent 23 years in the Navy half in the Pacific. After a submarine fires a torpedo and scores a hit, it's living on borrowed time. The air, surface and SSN especially the US SeaWolf class which was designed for exactly this, hunting and killing enemy submarines will bracket, use the MAD on helos from DDGs, FFGs or the carrier. P-8s will sortie, they have the MAD, sonobuoys and here's the dirty secret about submarines most non Naval warfare people don't know....submarines can't strike air contacts, they have no surface to air capabilities, no one does not even the US, Russia or the UK the most advanced and most experienced Navys in the world, especially the US and UK, oh and the French! So Naval warfare isn't getting a bunch of conscripts and use them as cannon fodder. It requires strategic and tactical prowess, ability to refuel and resupply at sea (US is absolute master of this), use Naval, air, Amphibious and submarine warfare simultaneously. Sailors need to be specialists, along with ability to conduct damage control and firefighting while in battle. Lastly Naval assets are very finite and can't stay engaged if taking heavy losses, they again have to be used strategically. Captains and Admirals need to know when to disengage, withdraw and disappear over the horizon, use Islands and electronic warfare effectively to mask the ships, can't build ships overnight!
@@hjusn you're obviously inexperienced and ignorant of Naval warfare, I suggest you read about Taffy-6, Bull Halsey, Admiral Arleigh Burke and US 5th Fleet, Admirals Spruance and Yamato. US Navy's doctrine and information available about Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW). The US were the giants of modern Naval warfare in WWII which was the golden age of Naval warfare in the modern era. The US and UK, especially the US with Carrier warfare and Amphibious warfare, the British are very good with submarines, along with the Russians. The French are also a decent Naval power. More isn't always, more in Naval warfare. China, hasn't won a major Naval battle since Jesus walked the earth. Russia since the 1400s. The US, UK and believe it or not Japan are the most experienced Navys in the world, especially the US and UK. Naval warfare isn't I'll build a bunch of ships and be the master of the seas, that's not going to happen. Way more variables like surface, submarine, air, Amphibious and littoral warfare simultaneously. While being able to conduct RAS and battle repairs in real time, without allowing assets to be vulnerable and exposed incorrectly and therefore the enemy's submarines or even Naval Special Warfare to destroy them while thinking they're safe and sound. Then conduct littoral warfare, hitting enemy inland waterways, ports and other riverine targets. So it's far more complicated than say a Infantry Brigade Commander, not taking away from the infant, just completely different and comes from constant training, great and effective maintainance cycles and inspections, ships will fall apart if not adhered to, look at Russia, horrible maintenance and preventative maintenance or lack thereof. They literally have ships with decks rusting through into the sea.
Meanwhile, China has launched 6 frigates in the last 18 months as well as a carrier. And more are the way. We are being out built by vessels that are state of the art. I worry for our Navy.
I hope the delays get resolved and they can get her in service a few years faster. Either way I’m glad to have another carrier with that great name on it and like both of her predecessors may she exceed expectations and heroics.
Those are the remaining ships under the previous contract as no more will be built and atleast the ship builder of the freedom class has already switched over to building the new constellation class frigates
'maybe' with ......yeah no they're junk! i am also wondering whats the deal with those new frigates we are waiting for. ALso like to see an old nimitz fitted with project replicator
Well they have yet to approve the frigate design that Congress demanded be purchased off the shelf for the purpose of speed of construction. They essentially are redesigning it from scratch, ignoring their Congressional mandate. And even then, when I was working I could have produced the 3D drawings myself, alone, in less than 6 years. The hold up is in the drawing approvals. They are still decommissioning more ships than they are producing and they are going to go down to like 1.2 Virginia's a year now. China is rapidly outpacing us and I don't ever see Australia getting their subs at this rate. Congress has poured countless billions down a hole trying to get them competitive with the Chinese construction rates, but nothing improves. The whole system needs an overhaul.
All wonderful additions for the Navy. 1 class of ship I would begin building ASAP are big boy ice breakers. Things have been looking sketchy in the Antarctic for quite some time now. By building these Ice breakers now, we could have parity with the Russians are they cannot build more of these ships due to the war in Ukraine. Time to outsource some of the Naval needs to allies to keep up with new ships builds as well as being in front of the curve with decommissioning of old unreliable inventory. There are plenty of countries who would love to build new ships for us at a better cost.
Sea skimming anti ship cruise missiles have existed for a very long time. Drones are just s cheaper less capable version. I believe what the OP means is autonomous boats like those used by Ukraine loaded with explosives and driven remotely.
Both classes of the LCS have been evaluated as incapable of carrying out the missions it was designed and the fact that both suffer significant structural or mechanical deficiencies. The crew is too small for the ship to have sustained deployments, is a fuel hog and it was determined to be un-survivable in any conflict with top-tier navies.
The Virginia and Burke class platforms are prime examples of successful design and execution. That's why both have so many ships/boats ordered. As for the LCS ships.......exact opposite. Under armed and defective......and waste of tax dollars.
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Submarines seem to be the way too go! It has to be hard with modern technology to protect surface vessels from missile attack? Carriers are expense, and I would bet hard to protect? I don't see much of a future in them!
As a Canadian, why can the USA not build our new Type 26 'River Class' frigates? USA seems to have the capacity to crank out ships while our 2-3 facilities will need decades to rebuild our fleet. Are the order slots booked? I understand that we do not need attack submarines nor have the number of men/women required serve on a destroyer. Just curious.
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Ummm... three Virginias aren't being commissioned per year. 2 at most. You should pair this video with one of how many ships the USN is decommissioning, but that would be a lot longer of a video. USN warship production and maintenance infrastructure is really, really bad.
@watchinglistening i still cant wrap my head around this number. 200 MILLION lbs. at greater than 40 knots . Thats the "unclassified" speed. Thats 46 mph. I bet its at least 55 mph top speed. Thats kookoo crazy fast. Heavy duty is the understatement of the century. The U.S has 3 of these in service and 1 or more in various stages of construction , plus , 8 more carriers of up to 90,000 tons in service . 😱. No wonder the world fears US.
@@johnhause7150 The Ford Class is overpowered. However, for all the crap the USN pulls, and all the wasteful spending of tax dollars, I do have to give them that, they've never liked slow ships, and being overpowered gets you out of harms way faster than being underpowered.
@Robdog1-w1f 🤔. Cowardly Lion? The killer Cat that strikes out of fear? Is that your stance? Id say they are more like a Tactical Tiger that carefully chooses its time and place to pounce and makes the kill all by itself. Survival is the name of the game. Lions will eat their own , but a Tiger, now there is REAL POWER. What might a Trump class ship be like?. 150,000 tons of Whoop Ass. The Killer Whale...🤣 ( we already know he wont run from a fight).
This is a joke.....between the US Navy and US Coast Guard, they should be commissioning 30 new vessels in 2025. With each passing year, our Navy gets smaller and smaller..... Yea, I remember when the big discussion was when our Navy went below 600 ships. Oh, and NOT all "10" of those "Naval Vessels" are combatants.
And they will have to maintain them. Has Australia sold all of their ports to chin a yet? If the NZ navy is any indication, it won’t be of much use anyways.
Ship building in general is pretty difficult to hide physically and fiscally but the reason why the specs are vague is that we don't show all the cards publicly.
The battleship was made obsolete by the aircraft carrier, though they were used for shore bombardment and they launched cruise missiles in the first Gulf War and possibly the second. The rail guns seem to have potential.
Saying that a freedom class can reach 40 it's is downright false...the diesel and gas turbine power plants have never been successfully meshed for full power...and as someone previously said they and the independence class are decommissioning right off the blocks
Good for "The Buzz" for not using a computer voice. At least. I don't think this is a computer voice. But wouldn't it be better for "The Buzz" to use a narrator who sounds like they are, you know, from America?
Yes, she is a real person narrating. As the Buzz does of "list of" posts, covering assets of a lot of countries, I think it's unreasonable to expect the narrator to be American.
And who is going to man these ships ? The services are having to lower the standards for the new recruits. During the Vietnam War they lowered the Mental Score to an IQ score of 85 .
It's good to see the Coast Guard getting a new ship!
She's lightly armed for such a large ship - at least large in terms of the US Coast Guard. The Famous-class still sports the rapid-fire 76mm, as does the Hamilton-class, which I think the Heritage-class is meant to replace. I know the USCG downgraded a lot of its weapons systems after the end of the Cold War, but it's interesting how much more lightly armed they all seem to be getting despite how involved they are in the South Pacific.
@@sword_of_light Yeah but I wouldn't be to worried about it thought. The U.S. Coast Guard don't rarely ever participate in any global war besides search and rescue mission. The closest danger would probably be engaging in piracy or drug smuggling. Also arming them would be costly since they also have to account for personals who needs to be trained to operate and maintaining the weapons. As for the large size, this would be good for the Coast Guard to traverse across the Ocean for instance going to Hawaii or Alaska if need be.
@@zeroinfinity9189 - No. The US Coast Guard has been fighting global conflicts since the French Quasi-War of 1798. They were escorting convoys in WWII, as well as piloting landing craft. A Coast Guardsman named Douglas A. Munro was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for leading the rescue of three Marine companies during the Battle of Guadalcanal. In the Vietnam war, the US Coast Guard were the first US vessels to patrol the Mekong Delta, as the US Navy at the time had no shallow-draft vessels that could navigate the river.
Currently, the Coast Guard has numerous vessels deployed in the South Pacific at the request of allied nations like the Philippines, to counter-act aggression by Chinese militia vessels pretending to be fishermen. If conflict with China occurs, the US Coast Guard will likely be the ones first on the scene.
@@sword_of_light Heritage class is replacing the Reliance class of Medium endurance cutters. (NSC class is replacing the Hamiltons) The main reason that the USCG Famous class had so many 76mm guns is they harvested them off the Perry class frigates as they were retiring. It was "upgunned" -- the Reliance mediums had the same 25mm guns as the Heritage secondary mounts. So they are more equipped than their predecessor. (personally I think they need a SeaRAM and CWIS for close in antimissile defense)
Famous class are still in service into the 2030s.
@@redwolfexr - I agree that more defensive measures need to be in place if we're dealing with the Chinese. But, you're always fighting the last war. I remember the Hamiltons got CWIS, and I don't think that was removed after the Cold War. But there need to be drone defenses, at least, on all the cutters.
What worries me the most however isn't the ships or the guns. It's the failing helo fleet. The Jayhawks were starting to show their age when I was in, and the Dolphins were state of the art, but that was 40 years ago. And I haven't heard any good news about replacements or funding.
25 knots on the Iowa? I love how our military down plays our capabilities =)
I also thought that speed was too low.
Standard spiel >20 Knots >400 Ft depth. The issue has never been the accuracy of the information but the confirmation of the specs.
@@ManOfChaiTea Kitty Hawk did 32 kn, I was on it!
@eliot5100 no way, no US Navy warship of the line commissioned since WWII could only make 20 kn! Unless a minesweeper or amphib, not a ship of the line, at least 30 kn, usually 34+. The USS Kitty Hawk CV63 did 32 during OPPE full boiler flex and flank speed trials, I was on it in 1998.
@@victorglaviano You obviously didn't read my answer. YOU NEVER GIVE ANY INFORMATION THAT CAN BE USED TO CONFIRM A SHIPS CAPABILITIES. Its called OPSEC - Operational Security. You never show a potential enemy your true capabilities.
While I always like a good warship, the ship I would really like to see built are a couple of new Hospital ships. Sure, they're not that dramatic, but we only have two and they're aging repurposed oilers, we could use a couple new ones built for the purpose.
Instead of scrapping those cruise ships they could make them hospital ships!!!
@@Glenn-em3hv Unfortunately that wouldn't work, the halls are too narrow, the rooms are completely unsuited for patient care, the bridge is Civilian design, not Military, they'd have to be completely remodeled top to bottom
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Hey Marine, the Navy is scrapping the Amphibs.......and I am NOT proud of how our Navy has shrunk over the past 50 years.....
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Love those side launches!
Did it almost take out a tugboat?
It’s hard to gauge how big those subs are until you see them dry-docked next to a person for scale….WOW.
........ yeah bud they aren't 2 foot wide lol 😂
It’s about goal post to goal post on a football field and a little narrower than said same football field……Not nearly as roomy as one might expect even at that size.
They get small again once you live inside it.
But inside....so small.
The Littoral Combat ships are being decommissioned almost as fast as the enter services. The navy considers them floating coffins.
LCS = Little Crappy Ship
Everytime I see one of these commissioned I think "Aren't we through with these yet?"
Give them to the coast guard. Close to shore if they break down (they do), but fast enough to challenge drug runners and hey almost as well armed.
They decommissioned the first group of Littoral combat ships because they were defective. Issues with the power plant with one class and hull on the other, being two of the larger issues. From what I’ve heard they fixed the issues and that’s why they’re moving forward. However, if I’m wrong it wouldn’t surprise me that they still move forward…. If they work, they’ll come in handy in east Asia.
@@MattyJ55046YOUR RIGHT! 50 MILES AN HOUR! THEY'RE PUTTING 8 NSM's ON THEM! ( NAVAL STRIKE MISSILES) THEY CAN OPERATE ON SHALLOW WATERS AND ON RADAR BLEND IN WITH THE HUNDREDS OF SMALL ISLANDS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND ISLAND CHAINS ISLAND! 🏝️ ⛓️ THEY EACH HAVE A ANTI SUBMARINE HELICOPTER. SO THE LCS ARE NOT THE LAME DUCKS MOST OF YOU ADMIRALS MAKE THEM OUT TO BE!
Good to remember that actual dive depths and speeds are classified information for submarines
FYI, Raleigh Burke class destroyers can cruise at 30kts. Top speed at full emergency is better than 40kts
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The Freedom and Independence class ships have been a complete failure. The navy has decommissioned ships from these classes in as little as five years since their commission. The fact we are still building these ships in spite of their shortcomings is an example of our government ineptness.
I mean i think they look cool thats about it
Elon and DOGE will be on it.
Also the Littoral class ships.
Is is the kind of stuff Elon ca get rid of with DOGE
The original idea behind them is sound, but for all practical purposes, the early ships of both classes ended up as test beds as they figured out what does work and what doesn’t work. That said, both classes ended up as victims of feature bloat, as the Navy tried to make them into mini Arleigh Burkes, with the capacity a little bit of everything.
My son will be graduating from the USNA and wants to serve on a fast attack sub.
If I were younger and had the chops I'd want to fly a fighter jet and being on a carrier seemed harder than an air strip, but thinking it through it seems being a Naval Aviator is something of a deathwish.
@@paulmicheldenverco1 I was in my teens when Top Gun hit the theaters and even though I lived in another country at the time, it was absolutely awe inspiring. Thirty seven years later as we left the cinema after watching Top Gun Maverick my USNA son said: Dad, you know I could apply for flight school to become a Navy pilot. He decided to pursue the submarine fleet instead. I think we watched The Hunt for Red October and Crimson Tide too often ;-)
That means he will have to become a nuclear engineer. After serving on subs for over twenty years (sonar tech) most nuclear officers given a choice to go back in time and be a nuclear engineer or an inmate at a maximum security prison, ninety-nine percent would choose prison.
@@almoemason He already did 12 months of the enlisted nuclear propulsion training in SC prior to enrolling at the USNA. He was first in his Power School class, which helped to get him into the USNA. He'll have to redo Power School and take the officer's version and then Prototype. He also mentioned that the attrition rate is high for Nukes.
@@paulmicheldenverco1 As is driving a car . . . few Naval Aviators have ever been involved in an accident.
Wow, so many epic ships.
Ford class super carrier to 3 Virginia class attack submarines in just 2025.
Our country needs twenty Aircraft carriers.
Realy I like this powerful warships
To each their own, I like the narrator 😊...
50 year service life for nuclear carriers . 20-25 years for first mid life refit .
Midway was in service for 50 years.
Actually, I heard the new carriers can go their whole life (50 years) without having to do a mid life refuel.
@@captainamerica3814 They can, in theory. But with all the pressure on the Navy to be everywhere these days, these new ships are going to be used hard and this will lead to their fuel-pile getting depleted faster, so when they go to get new radars and catapults and lifts in 20-25 years they may as well include refueling the reactors.
Twenty-five knots?? That’s with the pedal halfway down😂😂
Yeah, I was on a destroyer built in 1961 that did 33 knots while I was on it!
Need to build more Destroyers. And Cruisers. Only have 4 Cruisers. And most of the Destroyers are old
@clifford4514 probably won't be anymore cruisers, DDGs like Arleigh Burke class have AEGIS, TLAMs and there's no other capital ships in other navies except for Russia with outdated heavy cruisers full of guns! Outdated, expensive and probably could pay for 1.5 Arleigh Burke's for the price of a new Tico class CG. Also the Navy ordered a bunch of new Constellation class FFGs (Italian Fincantieri class frigates).
All wrong Cliff......just check the US Navy in Wikipedia.....expand your grape....
Need more submarines. Germany almost won both world wars with submarines alone. Similarly, America devastated the Japanese supply lines in WW2. Hard to detect and can carry special forces, cruise missiles and torpedoes. The surface ships are needed to protect the carrier. Problem is that you need a very highly nuclear power trained crew. Hard enough to recruit people for non-nuclear surface ships.
@hjusn absolutely incorrect, in fact Germany's lack of an effective surface fleet, lack of surface warfare skills allowed the Royal Navy to control the English channel, keep the shipping lanes open and Germany had no Amphibious capability. If Germany had a good fleet of general purpose surface combatants like destroyers and cruisers, couple aircraft carriers Amphibious ships with Naval Infantry or Marines in early 41 they could have blockaded the English ports causing lack of supply, RN Naval base at Portsmouth and landed an amphibious force establishing a beach head supported by surface combatants, CAS and U-Boats could have sunk merchant shipping and possibly invaded the UK before 1942, things may have been different. Look at the Kriegamarine lack of surface Naval skills, no US, UK or even IJN Captain would have taken a huge Battleship into restricted waterways like the fjords. The British were scared shitless of the Graf Spie and I can't remember the name of the other one, until they saw the inexperience and absolute ignorant move by Germany and then probably thought what a bunch morons, it was unable to maneuver and fire although it had superior weapons and range. But the British were masters of naval warfare along with the US and Japan (carbon copy of the RN).
BTW, the Aircraft Carrier is what won the war in the Pacific, not submarines. Before late 43, submarines weren't being used correctly by the US, they were mostly used to collect intelligence and watch the IJN transit and move troops to the Solomons, Boganville, and Guadalcanal. Although the US had a great submarine, but horrible torpedoes until then, with a failure rate as high as 40% - 50%. The Battle of Coral Sea was the battle that changed Naval warfare forever, it over a few days made the Carrier the Battle Group the capital ship and the Battleship on its way to the scrap yard. Hence why today the modern fleet has the Carrier Battle Group (CVBG) not the Submarine Battle Group! SSNs are a part of CVBG, usually 2 Las Angeles Class, Seawolf Class or Virginia Class.
First Naval battle where neither side saw one another on each other's ships, only aircraft.
NO MAJOR NAVAL POWER HAS EVER BEEN DOMINANT OR VICTORIOUS WITH SUBMARINES AS THE MAIN SHIP OF THE LINE, NONE! By early 44 the casualty rate for U-Boats was the highest amongst land, sea and air units, 50% casualties, essentially a suicide mission.
You're not versed in Naval warfare, I spent 23 years in the Navy half in the Pacific. After a submarine fires a torpedo and scores a hit, it's living on borrowed time. The air, surface and SSN especially the US SeaWolf class which was designed for exactly this, hunting and killing enemy submarines will bracket, use the MAD on helos from DDGs, FFGs or the carrier. P-8s will sortie, they have the MAD, sonobuoys and here's the dirty secret about submarines most non Naval warfare people don't know....submarines can't strike air contacts, they have no surface to air capabilities, no one does not even the US, Russia or the UK the most advanced and most experienced Navys in the world, especially the US and UK, oh and the French! So Naval warfare isn't getting a bunch of conscripts and use them as cannon fodder. It requires strategic and tactical prowess, ability to refuel and resupply at sea (US is absolute master of this), use Naval, air, Amphibious and submarine warfare simultaneously. Sailors need to be specialists, along with ability to conduct damage control and firefighting while in battle. Lastly Naval assets are very finite and can't stay engaged if taking heavy losses, they again have to be used strategically. Captains and Admirals need to know when to disengage, withdraw and disappear over the horizon, use Islands and electronic warfare effectively to mask the ships, can't build ships overnight!
@@hjusn you're obviously inexperienced and ignorant of Naval warfare, I suggest you read about Taffy-6, Bull Halsey, Admiral Arleigh Burke and US 5th Fleet, Admirals Spruance and Yamato. US Navy's doctrine and information available about Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW). The US were the giants of modern Naval warfare in WWII which was the golden age of Naval warfare in the modern era. The US and UK, especially the US with Carrier warfare and Amphibious warfare, the British are very good with submarines, along with the Russians. The French are also a decent Naval power. More isn't always, more in Naval warfare. China, hasn't won a major Naval battle since Jesus walked the earth. Russia since the 1400s. The US, UK and believe it or not Japan are the most experienced Navys in the world, especially the US and UK. Naval warfare isn't I'll build a bunch of ships and be the master of the seas, that's not going to happen. Way more variables like surface, submarine, air, Amphibious and littoral warfare simultaneously. While being able to conduct RAS and battle repairs in real time, without allowing assets to be vulnerable and exposed incorrectly and therefore the enemy's submarines or even Naval Special Warfare to destroy them while thinking they're safe and sound. Then conduct littoral warfare, hitting enemy inland waterways, ports and other riverine targets. So it's far more complicated than say a Infantry Brigade Commander, not taking away from the infant, just completely different and comes from constant training, great and effective maintainance cycles and inspections, ships will fall apart if not adhered to, look at Russia, horrible maintenance and preventative maintenance or lack thereof. They literally have ships with decks rusting through into the sea.
I sure hope we have a lot of subs.,..I feel very concerned for all the above water vessels vs. Russian and Chinese missles!
Such creative videos you’ve on this channel. Just subscribed!
DDGs 124 and 126 are Bathe built. They are behind the curve Jack Lucas DDG 125 was commission before and delivered to navy before anyone those 2 were
Fair winds and following seas 🍯
Yeah, adding 6 new ships and retiring 13? Going in the wrong direction.
Depends. If the retired ships are so out dated that they are not of much use costs are high to maintain budget wise it may be the prudent thing to do
They can retire them and use their frame for building other vessels
Meanwhile, China has launched 6 frigates in the last 18 months as well as a carrier. And more are the way.
We are being out built by vessels that are state of the art.
I worry for our Navy.
@@danlambert1061 Capability matters more than numbers as technology advances.
Need money to build new ones. That is 7 ships no longer tugging on the budget.
Deplomecy in physical form. 😂 love it
This video neglected to state that the USCGC Argus was built by Eastern Shipyard, Panama City, Florida.
Does anyone know when USS ENTERPRISE CVN 80 will be in service? Can't wait to see if she can match CVN 65.
According to Wiki (fwiw), the delayed expected date of November 2029. Can't come too soon, IMO.
I hope the delays get resolved and they can get her in service a few years faster. Either way I’m glad to have another carrier with that great name on it and like both of her predecessors may she exceed expectations and heroics.
4:29 31 Knots...LOL! She will definitely go faster than that!
We should be building 50 new ships per year and 100 new aircraft per year. The Air Force pilot shortage is getting bad.
The subs are way deadlier than the surface vessels.
i'm a fan of the AMerica class though. THink we need to focus more on frigates, CVL's and drone carriers/ordanance ships
@@Dreadwolf3155 The USN ships are all massively cool. But a single Ohio SSBN is a nuclear superpower by itself.
Why are we still wasting money on Littoral ships? We would be better served by frigates or corvettes.
Those are the remaining ships under the previous contract as no more will be built and atleast the ship builder of the freedom class has already switched over to building the new constellation class frigates
'maybe' with ......yeah no they're junk! i am also wondering whats the deal with those new frigates we are waiting for. ALso like to see an old nimitz fitted with project replicator
Well they have yet to approve the frigate design that Congress demanded be purchased off the shelf for the purpose of speed of construction. They essentially are redesigning it from scratch, ignoring their Congressional mandate. And even then, when I was working I could have produced the 3D drawings myself, alone, in less than 6 years. The hold up is in the drawing approvals.
They are still decommissioning more ships than they are producing and they are going to go down to like 1.2 Virginia's a year now. China is rapidly outpacing us and I don't ever see Australia getting their subs at this rate. Congress has poured countless billions down a hole trying to get them competitive with the Chinese construction rates, but nothing improves. The whole system needs an overhaul.
Me as President "MOAR SHIPS!"
Removing the well deck for the America class was nonsensical ! At least they've rectified their expensive mistake!
5:51 imagine it says USS Barrack Obama From Black Ops 2 💀
I hope the USS Enterprise (Gerald R. Ford Class Super Carrier) will return soon.
It's the next one, Ibelieve, but if not, it's in the pipeline.
@@thor-cj9dh The Enterprise (CVN-80) is indeed next in line; she's already under construction.
We need new Destroyer Tenders. The AD ship will be indispensable in a combat situation in the Pacific.
All wonderful additions for the Navy.
1 class of ship I would begin building ASAP are big boy ice breakers.
Things have been looking sketchy in the Antarctic for quite some time now.
By building these Ice breakers now, we could have parity with the Russians are they cannot build more of these ships due to the war in Ukraine.
Time to outsource some of the Naval needs to allies to keep up with new ships builds as well as being in front of the curve with decommissioning of old unreliable inventory.
There are plenty of countries who would love to build new ships for us at a better cost.
I had the opportunity to take a ride on the original JFK when it was at NAS Mayport. My grandfather knew the CO at the time.
I am proud to live United States of America as these ships are coming online.
The surface vessels require guns that point low enough for sea drones
helios !
Missiles are better at intercepting drones
@@jailbird1133 but intercepting a 10k drone with a 1m missile is a losing proposition. now if Anruill can come up with cheap misisle swarms..
@@jailbird1133at what cost?
Sea skimming anti ship cruise missiles have existed for a very long time. Drones are just s cheaper less capable version. I believe what the OP means is autonomous boats like those used by Ukraine loaded with explosives and driven remotely.
Both classes of the LCS have been evaluated as incapable of carrying out the missions it was designed and the fact that both suffer significant structural or mechanical deficiencies. The crew is too small for the ship to have sustained deployments, is a fuel hog and it was determined to be un-survivable in any conflict with top-tier navies.
US Navy submarines are all nuclear powered so it’s endurance is technically unlimited, not 3 months. Food is the only limitation on endurance.
the flight 3 burkes hold 132 missiles only 10 less then a tico
Get the new Frigates on-line to support the DDGs. I was on FFGs and love those tin cans.
Bring back the Cruisers!
The Virginia and Burke class platforms are prime examples of successful design and execution. That's why both have so many ships/boats ordered. As for the LCS ships.......exact opposite. Under armed and defective......and waste of tax dollars.
THOU AMERICA IS NOT PERFECT IT PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN MAINTAINING THE ORDER OF PEACE AND HUMANITY. FULLY SUPPORT USA, IF NOT THE USA TODAY THE WORLD WOLL BE MUCH MESSIER.
USA needs to replace All of the Ticonderoga class cruisers. They are really old.
Submarines seem to be the way too go! It has to be hard with modern technology to protect surface vessels from missile attack? Carriers are expense, and I would bet hard to protect? I don't see much of a future in them!
May God be with you and help protect our nation and allies.
As a Canadian, why can the USA not build our new Type 26 'River Class' frigates? USA seems to have the capacity to crank out ships while our 2-3 facilities will need decades to rebuild our fleet. Are the order slots booked? I understand that we do not need attack submarines nor have the number of men/women required serve on a destroyer. Just curious.
The U.S. is experiencing a shortage of qualified shipwrights, which has made for construction delays on our own ships.
@@PantheraOnca60 Sad times. Without new ships, the RCN cannot grow/replace the current fleet.
What country is this channel being produced from?
take a wild guess...
Chiii...na!
@@arthouston7361 Receipts? Enquiring minds want to know. On another note.. your replies TH-cam translation to English is interesting.
The accent of the girl is definitely not American
Chinese narstive. Obsessed with America.
Hate it when the commentators cannot pronounce names of weapons etc. “littoral”
Their Latin is atrocious as well e.g. Patria is Pah-tree-ah @2:45.
The USA needs to build more ships.
Counties with Interstates should have open seasons for deer so that aculling effect could be studied as these hiways are better monitored for accidents?
Noticed a lot of literal ships being built. Might be a harbinger of things to come.
Littoral. Lol
@@Cavilier210 At least he didn't say Clittoral. LOL
2025 Iowa submarine is back to diesel power like WW 2 submarines!😮
No, the diesel engine is only a backup to the nuclear reactor. Of course the engine burns corn and soybeans. It is the Iowa.
All nuclear subs have emergency diesel engines
Service life of 20-25 years for the Ford-class? Yeah, DOUBLE that. Easily. Or at least 20-25 years between RCOH.
The JFK is bad ass!! GO NAVY!!!
Ummm... three Virginias aren't being commissioned per year. 2 at most. You should pair this video with one of how many ships the USN is decommissioning, but that would be a lot longer of a video. USN warship production and maintenance infrastructure is really, really bad.
100,000 tons in EXCESS of 40 knots. 🤯
I READ THAT THE HULLS AT THE WATER LINE ARE 8 INCHES THICK! THAT'S A HEAVY DUTY HORNETS NEST!
@watchinglistening i still cant wrap my head around this number. 200 MILLION lbs. at greater than 40 knots . Thats the "unclassified" speed. Thats 46 mph. I bet its at least 55 mph top speed. Thats kookoo crazy fast. Heavy duty is the understatement of the century. The U.S has 3 of these in service and 1 or more in various stages of construction , plus , 8 more carriers of up to 90,000 tons in service . 😱. No wonder the world fears US.
@@johnhause7150 The Ford Class is overpowered. However, for all the crap the USN pulls, and all the wasteful spending of tax dollars, I do have to give them that, they've never liked slow ships, and being overpowered gets you out of harms way faster than being underpowered.
@Robdog1-w1f 🤔. Cowardly Lion? The killer Cat that strikes out of fear? Is that your stance? Id say they are more like a Tactical Tiger that carefully chooses its time and place to pounce and makes the kill all by itself. Survival is the name of the game. Lions will eat their own , but a Tiger, now there is REAL POWER.
What might a Trump class ship be like?.
150,000 tons of Whoop Ass.
The Killer Whale...🤣
( we already know he wont run from a fight).
CommissionED
The Aircraft carrier has a life of 50 years. 20-25 years is when it would go through refueling and overhaul
This is a joke.....between the US Navy and US Coast Guard, they should be commissioning 30 new vessels in 2025. With each passing year, our Navy gets smaller and smaller.....
Yea, I remember when the big discussion was when our Navy went below 600 ships.
Oh, and NOT all "10" of those "Naval Vessels" are combatants.
Australia 🇦🇺 is still waiting for our AUKUS submarines. We aren't holding our breath 😅
Those are not due until the mid 2030s. Jumping the gun there a bit.
And they will have to maintain them. Has Australia sold all of their ports to chin a yet? If the NZ navy is any indication, it won’t be of much use anyways.
Might we expect further installments, also with an obvious AI ?
I'm a Navy vet, Yes I am laughing at this.
USS Pierre is actually pronounced “Peer” not the French pronunciation of “Pea Air” - just an fyi.
the gearing that i steamed in the fifties we could 40 knts on 4 boilers
Couldn't get anyone better to narrate this video that can actually pronounce the words properly??
Which ones will take down china?
800ft depth?
Probably more like a thousand
More likely classified.
Test depth. Not max depth.
Dream on
If I'm not wrong the JF Kennedy should have been commissioned in 2022 but 2025 it was push to.
My question is, when will AI technology be used in these ship? Like the M5 in the original Star Trek series..
Excellent podcast. Any air or ground assets to report
Im guessing this narrator is NOT from South Dakota. ( Pierre ..Like the guy from France ). lol 🤣
Narrator needs to move the mic further away .
A pop filter would help.
Why don't we tell everybody what we have
fair point, though i don't think ships are exactly easy to hide.
Ship building in general is pretty difficult to hide physically and fiscally but the reason why the specs are vague is that we don't show all the cards publicly.
The narrator needs to improve her English pronunciation. She is hard to understand sometimes.
The narrator has an interesting accent??
The ships have steel old antique designs including the subs where are the new designs in the new technology we're falling behind
Anyone else besides me think we need to get back to building a few new battleships with nuclear reactors and rail guns?
They are useless in modern warfare
The battleship was made obsolete by the aircraft carrier, though they were used for shore bombardment and they launched cruise missiles in the first Gulf War and possibly the second. The rail guns seem to have potential.
"will be commission" ?? What country made this vid?
Pierre, SD is pronounced 'pier', and, the Little Crappy Ships should all be scrapped.
I look forward to the day when we don't study war no more.
Sounds nice but completely unrealistic.
Saying that a freedom class can reach 40 it's is downright false...the diesel and gas turbine power plants have never been successfully meshed for full power...and as someone previously said they and the independence class are decommissioning right off the blocks
Thats alot of seamen there 😂
Good for "The Buzz" for not using a computer voice. At least. I don't think this is a computer voice. But wouldn't it be better for "The Buzz" to use a narrator who sounds like they are, you know, from America?
Yes, she is a real person narrating. As the Buzz does of "list of" posts, covering assets of a lot of countries, I think it's unreasonable to expect the narrator to be American.
An LCS on thus list? Uh the LCS class is to expensive and a experiment
TWO of them !! I'm not convinced that the LCS ships are worth having. I reserve the right to be wrong about this....
expensive yes, experiment, unfortunately, no
MADE IN USA ALWAYS POWERFUL
F35 has tons of deffects!!! And there are nuke subs and Aircraft-carriers out of operation due to fails in solderings.
Russia and China got them all on their list!!
And who is going to man these ships ? The services are having to lower the standards for the new recruits.
During the Vietnam War they lowered the Mental Score to an IQ score of 85 .
A Chinese AI telling and showing what we have coming up! Crazy ain't it?!
Ford class lifespan of 25 years? More like double that.
LCS stands for Little Crappy Ships…..
Freedom class. Freedom of stupidity
I can't wait to see the USS Donald J. Trump.
It won't happen. I'm pretty sure you have to have served in order to have your name on a ship.
@@flyer14bravo29 You absolutely do not.
It will be the biggest, fastest, most powerful ever. It will scare Chiiinah.
You can’t name a navy vessel after a convicted felon and a draft dodger period. Navy Viet Nam vet here.
@@ericsorensen8705not a convicted felon.