USS George H.W. Bush Maiden Deployment Friday, May 13, 2011, 10:37 AM
The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (GHWB CSG) departed for its maiden deployment May 11.
The strike group, led by the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), and its nearly 6,000 Sailors; is scheduled to conduct operations in the U.S. Navy's 6th and 5th Fleet areas of responsibility.
The deployment is part of an ongoing rotation of U.S. forces supporting maritime security operations in international waters around the globe.
Working with allied and partner maritime forces, GHWB CSG units will focus heavily on maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts which help establish conditions for regional stability.
"The George H.W. Bush Strike Group is ready to go," said Rear Adm. Nora Tyson, commander of GHWB CSG. "These Sailors have worked extremely hard over the last year and we are fully prepared to execute any and all tasking in support of the nation's maritime strategy."
The five ships and eight aircraft squadrons of GHWB CSG consist of approximately 6,000 Sailors who have spent the last year conducting intensive training and certification exercises to establish a safe, cohesive organization capable of performing a wide variety of missions across the globe, ranging from counter-piracy and ground support operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
The George H.W. Bush Strike Group consists of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 2, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 22 staff, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), guided-missile cruisers USS Gettysburg (CG 64) and USS Anzio (CG 68), and guided-missile destroyers USS Truxtun (DDG 103) and USS Mitscher (DDG 57).
As the possible requirements and expectations continue to grow for the proposed DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class Flight III destroyers, so is the concern among defense analysts and contractors that the U.S. Navy may once again be trying to pack too much into one ship.
That is a particular worry for a ship that was chosen because it would be the fastest and most affordable way to deliver enhanced ballistic missile defense (BMD) capability with an upgraded Aegis defense system and, later, a new radar suite.
And yet it is the need to field the radar necessary for that upgraded BMD ability that is driving some of the additional requirements for the Flight IIIs. The radar is the Navy’s proposed Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), and the service says it needs the sensor package to do simultaneous BMD and air defense at a level that is a magnitude better than what it will have with the Aegis upgrades.
The service conducted a radar/hull study in the latter half of the previous decade that prompted the Navy to truncate the procurement of the futuristic DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class ships to three from seven and restart the DDG-51 line – with the new Flight IIIs to be designed through the middle part of this decade – because it would be more cost-effective and quicker to enhance the Aegis system and put the AMDR on the redesigned Arleigh Burke.
“While our Radar/Hull Study indicated that both DDG-51 and DDG-1000 were able to support our preferred radar systems, leveraging the DDG-51 hull was the most affordable option,” Navy officials told Congress after the review’s completion. The estimated cost for two new DDG-51s is about $3.5 billion, while the current sticker price for the Zumwalts is a bit more than $3 billion.
The study is still classified, but a former high-ranking Navy officer intimately familiar with the study says, “Some pieces of it got hijacked. People who had an agenda kind of drove the study for a solution.” Defense analysts and radar component competitors say the Navy pushed to restart the DDG-51 destroyer line because of pressure from Aegis supporters in the service to boost that program.
Aegis-contractor Lockheed Martin, though, denies that there is any undue Aegis influence within the Navy.
Defense analysts, industry radar experts and even Navy officials acknowledge the dual-band radar planned for the Zumwalt would have been tweaked to provide BMD capabilities similar to those of the enhanced Aegis system.
Further, they say, the Zumwalt had other attributes – such as a lighter composite deckhouse and an integrated hybrid-electric propulsion system – that would have compensated for the relatively top-heavy and power-greedy AMDR.
Some of those design elements are being bandied about for the Flight III Arleigh Burke.
It is starting to appear, according to defense analysts and contractor officials, that the vessels will be built to essentially accommodate the AMDR. But the Navy’s top shipbuilder executive warns against following that course.
“Sometimes we get caught up in the glamour of the high technology,” Huntington Ingalls Industries CEO Mike Petters says. “The radars get bounced around. They get changed. Their missions get changed. The technology changes. The challenge is if you let the radars drive the ships, you might not get any ships built.”
Imperialista entregado a las Fuerzas Capitalistas del Mal
110507-N-KK330-134 BATH, Maine (May 7, 2011) Guests await the christening ceremony for the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Pre-commissioning Unit (PCU) Michael Murphy (DDG 112) at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Michael Murphy was christened by Maureen Murphy, mother of the ship's namesake, Navy (SEAL) Lt. Michael Murphy. Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan in June 2005. He was the first Sailor awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Dominique M. Lasco/Released)
We, the people...
¡Sois todos un puñado de socialistas!. (Von Mises)
En serio, si no sabes o no quieres traducir el artículo, simplemente haz un resumen y pon el enlace a la noticia. "Leer" las burradas que ahí aparecen es penoso.
El accidente habría tenido lugar mientras que el módulo se levantaba a cambiar de posición para seguir trabajando. Una fuente informó que los ojos de la almohadilla se desprendieron del módulo, haciendo que se caiga.
Esperemos que un módulo tan trabajador recupere pronto la visión y pueda volver a su labor...
Ningún plan, por bueno que sea, resiste su primer recorte presupuestario.
¡hola! ya que hablamos de demostraciones de helicópteros, el que escribe frente a semejante poderío se rinde sin ofrecer resistencia.
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Perdón, es que tenía ganas de soltar algo divertido
Despues de las 250 últimas ambulancias los Marines acaban de pedir a Navistar Defense otros 471 MaxxProDash con suspensiones DXM por un importe de 357 millones de dólares.
GRITA DEVASTACION Y SUELTA A LOS PERROS DE LA GUERRA.
Julio César,Shakespeare
“We know that there have been these rumors circulating out there, which they didn’t deny, and they told us they’re going to give us confirmation on that. They’ve already stretched the carrier build time to five years, so they could stretch it to seven years, or they may be thinking of doing away with one of the carriers altogether …Nobody came back and said, ‘oh we’re not going to do that unless we do a threat assessment’ — it sounded to me like an acknowledgement that, yep, we can put that on the table.”
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Saludos
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important lesson history has to tell."
Aldous Huxley 1894-1963
¡hola! imagen de la Samuel B. Roberts entrando en el puerto de Nápoles, no estoy seguro pero creo que esta fragata resultó averiada por una mina en la primera guerra del golfo.
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Y aquí unadel Enterprise rumbo a Libia, tomada a principios de mes en Palma.
¿En la Armada de los Estados Unidos hay algúna unidad que se aventure a incursiones terrestres, para apoyar a los Marines o para reconocimiento? A parte de los Seabees y Navy Seals, ¿hay algún otro o esa labor es solo para el Marine Recon?
Espero sus respuestas...
Carlos Ruíz escribió:¿En la Armada de los Estados Unidos hay algúna unidad que se aventure a incursiones terrestres, para apoyar a los Marines o para reconocimiento? A parte de los Seabees y Navy Seals, ¿hay algún otro o esa labor es solo para el Marine Recon? Espero sus respuestas...
Ya sé que no es exactamente lo que preguntas, pero en cuanto al reconocimiento:
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