Strangest Looking Most Highly Classified Aircraft Carrier Ever Built
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- It's 1965, and the Cold War verges on nuclear conflict. The Soviet Union has escalated tensions, threatening the West with annihilation.
Patrolling the waters a few miles outside Washington DC, USS Wright comes to life as vessel and crew prepare for the unthinkable.
Originally an aircraft carrier, this ship has been transformed. Its vast flight deck, once lined with fighter jets ready for combat, now hosts a forest of antennae and satellite dishes. These instruments of communication have replaced the roar of jet engines with the silent buzz of signals bouncing across the globe.
A helicopter approaches, cutting through the sky with urgency. It lands smoothly on the deck, now cleared of any aircraft but fully equipped for its new role. Out steps President John F. Kennedy, immediately greeted by the ship's commanding officer. Together, they move briskly inside, descending into the bowels of the USS Wright.
In the heart of the ship, a secure room houses a bank of color-coded telephones. Each one is a direct line to a different branch of the U.S. defense network, from the Pentagon to missile silos scattered across the country. This array of phones stands ready to orchestrate a unified response to any threat.
Even deeper in the bowels of the emergency operations center, there is a reinforced room shrouded in secrecy, requiring a top-secret key code to enter.
Before there were Doomsday planes, there were Doomsday Ships, created to ride out nuclear apocalypse. USS Wright was ready to do just that.
The USS Wright looks like a HAM radio operators ultimate dream!
Yeah, I might get one when/if I retire as a billionaire! Bugger that mega-yacht crap lol.
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If it was a HAM dream more people would have known about it because they don't ever shut up about HAM.
Considering it is at sea, does that make it...(wait for it)... a wet dream? 🤣
(Don't worry, I'll leave quietly)
@@martythemartian99 and please make sure you trash the keyboard you wrote this on.
The only thing more amazing than the advanced technology and capabilities of this ship is how quickly it become obsolete as technology advanced.
Same with phone systems. People would by huge phone systems then and within 3 to 4 years the size would be halved and the price would go down. By the late seventies what would halve taken a room or two would be down to a pallet to 1/4 of a room.
Since there was a glaring mistake in the first 2 mins I could not finish it. Get your dates straight and presidents
I served on the Wright from Sept '65 to Sept '68. This video brought back many memories.
Any weird facts that you remember from the ship? Or any interesting missions that stick out to you? Thanks for your service
@tylercarlson1659 When the remote controlled chopper flew
@rogerbredemeier2220 do you remember JFK being on the ship in 1965 like he claims? haha
If I remember correctly JFK was killed 62 or 63.
Never has this channel sold us such bonkers situations as JFK being on a ship in 1965😂😂
John F. Kennedy was not president in 1965 having been assinated in November 1963 in Dallas.
Lmfao god damn ai videos 😂
What? Why didn’t someone tell us about this?
Historically the ship is real , The helicopter was real , The video footage is real , The date that JFK visited the ship however is incorrect.
JFK’s visit to the ship was 4 months prior to his assassination , you can look this up in the National archives…
His zombie came back for a tour.
@@christophermontoya6178guess that explains why he didn't look so good...
Fascinating, a shame we don't have more pictures, thanks.
_The 'Kennedy being dead in 1965' error I'm sure 1,000 USAers have pointed out lol._
minor detail lol
Great video, but I’d bet the farm JFK didn’t ride in a single helicopter in 1965.
Ooops, looks like someone breached the classified story of what happened in Dallas.
That's what "they" want you to think. 😂 I've still never gotten a clear answer on who "they" are, but I've been assured "they" sit in dark smoke filled rooms.
@dougaldouglas8842 or is it? 🤔
Was Marilyn Monroe there?
Because he already bought it?
A great prototype for the USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19). Commissioned in about 1973. She is still in service. The USN's third longest serving ship.
Ah yes, 7th fleet’s party barge.
I worked on the RC-135v/w exclusively, but did work on the OC-135, WC-135, and on a few occasions the RC-135s and u. Neat aircraft. The Navy "TACAMO" and USAF E4b were also at Offutt. All very cool planes that play a large part in the nuclear triad and Intel.
The Cobra Ball would sometimes open or close garage doors in our old neighborhood just west off post of Offutt. Made sure not to park under an open door. lol
Saw her sitting in the Philadelphia Navy Yard
Thought she had been used in the space program
Great explanation of her function
Was stationed on her from Sept 1966 to june 1967. Quite a ship. Made Shellback going to Johnsons meeting. Week liberty in Rio Not too bad either.
Never heard of this one.
Wow.
This is literally every amateur radio operators, wet dream
"Wet dream"? I see what you did there!
You left out USS Triton with her 2 reactors and massive secure space and antennas for command and control.
Originally conceived to go up the Potomac to pickup the President. However nobody bothered checking how deep the water was. Too shallow. Opps 😂
😂😂😂 What I would give to see the project coordinators' face when they found out that little detail lmao
Loose lips etc...lol
Hey,we sent a satellite into space built with metric and saw measurements.
What an interesting insight. And that thing being the most advanced, complex and expensive piece of submarine ended up serving just 10 years.
Waited for 40 years for tilisation
@@olehcelsior1005 I was fascinated by her and read what little there was about her. I was visiting my cousin one Christmas around 2005 and her husband's dad served on her. Really great stories, especially the engine room.
When I was in, we had the "Mount Whitney." She sat on Pier 25 in Norfolk and never really moved. Her hull number was 20, so we all called her "Building 20."
What years? I was an ET on the ASW Frigate USS Ainsworth FF-1090, homeported at Norfolk, Va. in the early 1980s. 😊
That's funny
@@lancerevell5979 a little after you. In from 88-92. Norfolk from 89-92. GSE aboard USS Hayler (DD997). She was the last of the Spru Cans
“Fastest around-the-worpld signal” is a nonsense phrase.
Radio waves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. I.e. they are a lower frequency version of visible light. The same exact thing.
And light moves at a particular speed (300.000km/second or 186,000miles/second). Having larger and more powerful antennas DOES NOT speed up the radio waves lmao.
The only thing that can alter the speed of light is if it is forced to move through a medium other than empty space. And in that case, it alters the speed DOWNWARD, not upward.
The time it takes for a signal to travel around the world is the circumference of the earth divided by the speed of light. (If indeed it’s traveling the circumference exactly; it’s more likely that the signal is bouncing off of clouds etc.).
Maybe the record includes the time needed for the 'plain text' message to be both encoded for transmission, and decoded and printed or displayed as 'plain text' again. So rather than simply measuring the time it takes to for a discrete EMF signal to go from transmitter to receiver, (which is just light speed thing you mention), they measure the total time it takes to go from human readable on one end to human readable on the other. Totally just a guess on my part. Who knows what's meant when a casual description leaves out the total details of why they considered it a record??? 🙂
I don"t think 1965 is correct here.
Those NECP 747's i remember seeing parked at Boeing Field in the 70's shortly after roll-out.
The power needed to power & cool those electronics...
So we went from Floating White House to Flying White House. Does that mean the next version will be an Orbital White House? 🤔
Good Dark Seas doc 👍
At the Commsta I was at we had 3 FRT 62 transmitters. Each could put out two hundred thousand watts rms. I’ve always wondered if they could ever put one of those thing aboard ship.
I worked at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in the 60's & 70's, when the USS Arlington agmr2 was docked at the Mole. It was the same type of converted Carrier as the USS Wright. How come you didn't mention it in your presentation?
Thank you, I just asked the same question, since I served 15 months on the USS Arlington agmr2 Damage, in the Tonkin gulf.
Because it came second? Or maybe because it was west coast further from Washington?
Do any of you have more information about the USS Arlington? My Grandpa served during Vietnam and was sent to assist during the capture of the USS Pueblo. He was a Deckhand. Eventually he was a gunner on a river boat for a year. Didn’t talk about that much, but enjoyed his time on the Arlington. Thank you
Hey, What about the USS Annapolis agmr1 and the USS Arlington agmr2 ? They were the same type and looked alike they both served off the coast of Vietnam in the middle 60s. I served 15 months on the USS Arlington agmr2 Damage Control 3ed Class
they were from 2 different classes of ship. USS Annapolis agmr1 was from an escort carrier(cve) & USS Arlington agmr2 was from a light carrier(cvl).
@@davidperry5024 thanks, these two ship's were major communication ships and not the white house type as the USS Wright.And am sure we spyed quite a bit while in the Tonkin gulf.
Yea, only only two Saipan Class, the Saipan and Wright. Saipan was made into a Communications Relay ship, and re-commissioned as the Arlington. While the Wright was converted into a Command ship. If I remember right, their hulls were not keel up carriers, but, constructed from heavy cruiser hulls.
As an EE and Ham i can appreciate this video. Never knew about this CV, excellent video.
I really enjoyed this posted episode. Thank you for sharing.
I love the Dark
Isn't USS Wright sister ship of USS Saipan? Yup...Saipan class Light Carriers
USS Saipan was later converted into the USS Arlington agmr2 which looked like the USS Wright, I served 15 months on the USS Arlington agmr2 Damage Control 3ed class in 1968 69 Westpac want everywhere in the Orient from Japan to Sydney and everywhere in between lots of good times in ports
Thought the thumbnail was clickbait. It wasn't. Cool!
"It's 1965"...and JFK visits a naval facility off the East Coast. What do you know that we don't? Could his funeral in November 1963 be a false memory? May I finally put that trauma behind me?
"Presidents in rearview mirror may be more alive than they appear."
We don’t like to talk about it but Biden wasn’t the first zombie POTUS.
My FiL served on the USS North Hampton in the late 50's
A man could do a lot of stuff with an old aircraft carrier and an unlimited budget.
Communication from land,air and sea including military facilities and headquarters from your country put on one place away from danger is a well coordinated tactics and very dangerous strategy, i really like this video,i watch it over and over.
Was there a stateroom for Marolin Monroe?
*Marilyn
@pike100 I can't spell to save my life. Thanks for the correction thou.
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Thank you for sharing this
Thank you for my continusing education..gret stuff I didn't know
I think I still have a Revell kit of a Russian Trawler aka a Spyship with all its masts. Not exactly undercover.
When a president boards a naval ship, is its new call sign “Ship Force One”? 😆
Good question 🤔
Neither.
It's usually a secret
Hush
Navy One.
Hello Dark(ness) my old friend!
My grandfather fought in Guam he was shot 3 times and stabbed 3 times,his hole platoon was one of the first ones on the beachs, he killed 17 before he realized he only had lost all but 12 which they all ended up dying and my grandfather hid under two of his friends who he had gone through basic with, the Japanese went through the body's and stabbed and shot all body's on the field and my gran dad what stabbed and shot,then layed there tell the reinforcements a day later still the most decorated person from Utah
I doubt the USS Wright as a light aircraft carrier ever landed jet aircraft as mentioned as I doubt the flight deck was rated for the harder jet landings, but I could be wrong.
I used to know that access code.
Yeah could you imagine the president going to a nearby facility in suddenly launching into space in a SpaceX starship?
We would be like oh s*** really!? 😂
This is why I like Dark Seas
"It's 1965" and JFK lands on a carrier? Have you no pride in your dubious work?
did all that antenna work during sea storms and rain?
Yes
Had no idea of such a Air Taft carrier ; good video !!!!!
On 9/11, the doomsday plane was used in earnest for the first time. AF1 was seen in Nebraska
USS Pueblo was crewed by scientists?
A small number of actual scientists. Most of the crew were Navy, CIA, NSA, etc.
What jets ever operated on this ship?
Planes still have only a limited time aloft, even with refueling, and their runways are fixed.
A ship with proper escorts is practically invulnerable, with anti-satellite weapons in every escort, subs that can hear everything waterborne for hundreds of miles.
Your intro places the timeline at 1965. I'm sure you know that JFK was assassinated in 1963. The rest of the time hacks seem right.
The command post in Pennsylvania is called Raven Rock!
It is sooo reassuring that when war comes due to the slime we call leaders, that these ships would have kept the very said slime alive!
I used to hate this guys voice but at least I know he's not AI.
0:48 The retrofit started March 1962 to May 1963. The time JFK landed on the USS Wright had to occur between May 1963 and September 3rd 1963. Death of JFK happened November 22nd 1963.
I dont believe the narrator meant to imply that JFK was alive in 1965, ONLY trying to set the stage or buildup of the story, which is confirmed at time-markers 4:38, 6:27, and 8:59.
At 8:59, he mentioned that (after he mentioned both JFK and LBJ), that "the latter" (referring to LBJ NOT "the former" JFK) wrote a letter about the ship in 1966.
He just needs a new script writer or editor.
The 747's no longer in production, so I doubt an E-4 replacement will be based on it.
The cold war never ended it just changed over the years
We're always at war with Russia no matter what happens when where & how & why
We always must be the alpha nation with the greatest advanced technology
From the baby boomers to the millennials
This is how we always stay ahead of the Russian bear
🕊️ Of peace
monkey brain go brrr more like.
Yeah because technology did real well against sub par enemies in Vietnam and Afghanistan arguably Iraq as well.
Russia is a third world country.
No one cares about communists. LOL
They are like the but hurt neighbors that try to steal the garden hose.
Nobody cares
You have much more trouble with Chinese 🐼 now and years to come
The largest command and communication system ever put into service at sea…………..yup 100% agreed, however, it was probably the most identifiable target for the potential enemies to attack before launching a preemptive strike against the USA 🇺🇸 or the world, I wouldn’t have given it much of a chance, even with a carrier strike group type of defensive screen.
All power to the USA for coming up with this idea and making it a reality, and I don’t think any other nation would have been able or willing to spend the kind of money that it must have taken to make it a reality.
Wild
I would love to see both of there stores my grand day was army and his brother who invented the pt boat
Army and navy **
A aircraft carrier with bunny ears…could only get 5 channels I bet
Well, considering that the few satellites that were in orbit were either Soviet ones looking at us or ours looking at them.
My uncle, a US Air Force Colonel served on both the USS Wright and USS Northampton.
I wonder how much the cable bill was. And if they had to subscribe to peacock for Thursday night feetball.😅
Thursday Night Football is on Amazon Prime, not Peacock.
This is the ship ONI officer Bob Woodward came from.
Maybe JFK was still alive
Logistical Implementation of Ground and Marine Assests(LIGMA)
Or was he assassinated in 63 LOL
My last name is Bulkley look us up navy juggernaut he invented the pt boat
I guess the submarine is still classified
That was my dad's last ship he served on after WW2.
Yeah they got the dates of the Cuban Missile Crisis wrong🦧
That voice modulation does the opposite of what you think, dude
UFO the next one.
Wait, yo Dark Seas. Is this an AI channel? How much do you actually do yourself? I had thought this was just a faceless channel with a human voiced script. If this is all AI then I’m impressed but also disappointed.
Complimentary algorithm enhancement comment!😊
Seems like it would be an easy target in a nuclear war!
In 1963, the Wright would not have been an easy target. At that time, nuclear weapons were not that accurate.
The ship is “a few miles from Washington DC” bet is was further away than that! Unless the moved DC to the coast, there are some states in the way.
You reckon it could have been in the Potomac river or something like that?
Washington DC is pretty much on the coast.
@@pike100 Tidle arms of the Delaware and Potomac River are bordered by DC, the state of Maryland is to its north and east. 113 miles to the east from DC is Ocean City, Maryland on the coast.
You’re right, pretty much on the coast, by air. The video references an ocean going ship though.
It's probably best they aren't in use now. Joe would stumble out a wrong door and tumble overboard.
Crewed by scientists off N. Korea... Ok...
BOING??? (Formerly known as BOEING), why would you trust DEI (Didn't Earn It) to them????
how could the mega channel(s) eff up a date and JFK..
"The Soviet Union has escalated tensions"
Uh, no?
The west escalated tensions by putting nuclear weapons in Turkey, to which USSR RESPONDED by what then caused the Cuba crisis, because oh dear, the very idea of USSR doing THE SAME THING was utterly unthinkable!
It is what it is, a agenda nearly spanning a 100 years.
@dougaldouglas8842 That's what i thought when i was a kid.
Then i started seeing some very disturbing patterns more and more blatantly apparent.
USA and USSR did the exact same thing, USA got applause while USSR got hate.
Then i happened to read a report comparing "provocative behaviour" from both sides.
And realised that over 95% of it came from USA. When USSR did something like it, it was always for a specific reason.
While USA had it set as STANDARD behaviour.
This becomes horribly obvious if you start looking at submarine behaviour, and just how many collisions USA submarines caused during the cold war, because they were being carelessly aggressive or arrogantly provocative.
Simple conclusion, if USSR had behaved even HALF as provocative as USA during the cold war, then WWIII would already be history.
US commanders nearly always ASSUMED that they had the INHERENT RIGHT to act as complete maverick dikheads.
They assumed that Soviet military did NOT have ANY rights at all to defend their nation, they were just supposed to meekly sit back and get killed or run away at the drop of a hat.
This is also part of why today is as it is, the above behaviour didn't go away with the cold war, instead it got MUCH WORSE.
Russia blows. You know exactly what I mean.lol😅😅😢
Russia, Chinese, same difference.
Steal steal steal
Who's country collapsed?
@@JosephAllen-kx4xl Neither.
But USA is looking like a very good candidate for it within the next decade or two.
The USSR did not collapse. It dissolved itself BY CHOICE.
And if they had known just what level of bad faith the west operated under, and just what level of blind hatred and racism against Russia there was, they would probably never have done it.
That ship was just an easy target. It would take a lot of ships to keep submarines and bombers far enough away.
It wouldn't operate alone, but with many support ships, to provide AAA and ASW protection.
Submarines were less of an issue before blue water navy nuclear submarines common etc. and these ships were decommissioned when these threats did evolve enough. Bombers are too far for an unknown carrier target before satellites were more common
Yeah seems like a big dinner bell for enemy subs
This is an old CVE from WWII
How long would it take to cook a pound of bacon left out on the deck with all those micro waves?
Needs more bowels
I expect the new nuclear powered carriers that began entering service in the late 60s and 70s (Enterprise and the Nimitz-class) were able to utilize newer technology and their massive size to provide all the space and communications facilities to more than replace Wright and Southampton.
Not to mention that provided by the new amphibious assault ships, with their need for both space for operations staff, and command and control.
I have some of his things from war including Japanese swords guns head bands bayonets ect for proof let me know dark😊
That was when we had our wonderful President Kennedy. Not now. MAGA.
When was America ever great? 1776 and we were in slavery, after slavery was Jim Crow, after Jim Crow the kkk was still running around, the CIA was planting drugs into black communities, when was America ever truly great? Not just for whites, for all!
Our boy scout troop toured this ship at about the time you are talking about so not that secret
I think you are probably mistaken about which ship you toured (or when you took the tour).
Sounds like a pretty risky idea, attempting to keep your country's leader safe on a ship out at sea during a (nuclear) world war. After all it's a sitting duck for submarines and long range missiles. Massive deep underground bunkers make for much better hideouts, you can store years worth of food, water and fuel in them if they're properly built and stocked, a ship on the other hand won't be able to sustain in the basic needs for more than a couple of months.
Edit your video, Kennedy was not president in 1965,
Downvoted
Everyone should downvote until you fix it.
The new technology. a completely stealth anti granitic drive hyper hyper sonic craft.
John F. Kennedy live in 1965? It smells like a really good conspiracy theory.
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OMG,Look how old that Carrier is! That thing predates the Roman Empire!
That thing wasn't converted, IT was Resurrected!
I hope they had all the Fcc licenses
Interesting fact... the us military doesn't fall under the fcc for spectrum usage.
If i was the Pres. Get me to a f-14. Then to the Ford air craft carrier. Long time there with great food and defence.
The F-14s have all been retired (and destroyed) a long time ago.
Details matter. Facts matter. Particularly in history. Having a smooth voice over is worthless if you're going to sell us garbage. Clearly no one proof read your copy.
If you can't be bothered to check your facts then I can't be bothered to watch whatever crap you see fit to deliver.
For 3 weeks you've known about the error and haven't even bothered to do anything about it. I am unsubscribing. Have a nice life.