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Poslao: 14 Jul 2014 23:01
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Citat:The Navy Is Converting A Cargo Vessel Into A Special Operations Mothership
The U.S. Navy is quietly converting a 633-foot-long cargo ship into a secretive helicopter carrier with facilities for supporting a large contingent of Special Operations Forces and all their gear, including jet skis.
Yes, jet skis.
And here’s the really weird thing: almost nobody is talking about the new “mothership” vessel, even though it could significantly expand America’s at-sea commando footprint.
In November, Military Sealift Command—America’s quasi-civilian fleet of more than 100 specialized but lightly armed vessels—awarded an initial $73-million contract to shipping giant Maersk to convert one of its cargo ships to a so-called “Maritime Support Vessel” standard.
Maersk tapped the 30,000-ton displacement M/V Cragside, built in 2011. After enduring a legal protest by rival Crowley, in January Maersk sent Cragside to the Gulf of Mexico for military modifications, most likely at the BAE shipyard upriver in Alabama.
The contract, extendable for up to four years, could be worth up to $143 million. The militarized Cragside could deploy as early as November this year.
MSC is adding a bunch of new hardware to Cragside to allow the vessel to function as a floating base for up to 200 troops and their weapons plus small boats, helicopters and the aforementioned jet skis, which the Navy and Air Force have begun buying and which Navy SEALs could use to sneak along enemy coastlines.
Cragside should be able to sail 8,000 miles at a time at speeds up to 20 knots and in 20-foot seas, needing resupply only every 45 days. The shipyard is adding a highly-secure communications room, a gym and weapons lockers. After all, you can’t house all those Army Delta Force troopers and SEALs without ample weapons lockers and gyms.
The sleek, capacious ship—already fitted with a rear ramp for loading vehicles—is also getting a flight deck big enough for the largest, heaviest U.S. military helicopter, the Navy’s MH-53E. Cragside will also be able to support Army Apache gunships, Navy patrol helicopters, Special Operations Command Little Bird attack copters and even Marine and Air Force V-22 tiltrotors.
Cragside’s hangar must be big enough to hold two Navy helicopters at the same time for maintenance—and has to have the special, subtle lighting that allows crews to use night-vision goggles.
Add it all up, and you’ve got a floating air base, barracks and headquarters—all in a package that, because it looks just like a civilian cargo ship, should be able to avoid easy identification. “This is going to be a seriously capable ship,” commented Tim Colton, a maritime consultant.
And a seriously capable ship that many close observers of the Navy don’t even know exists. It’s not the that government is covering up Cragside—the call for bids went out through normal public channels. But the vague official descriptions of the vessel’s purpose have helped her escape wide notice.
When Seapower magazine called Sealift Command for comment, it got a predictably terse response. “We can’t provide details relating to the ship’s mission,” MSC spokesman Jim Marconi said.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-navy-is-getting-a-special-mothership-2014-2
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-navys-getting.....801da6f353
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/07/09/w.....a-warship/
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Poslao: 14 Jul 2014 23:25
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O otme se dugo prica pa se i ovde u teoriji ranije pominjalo kao mogucnost (cisto na nivou akademske rasprave, jednim delom u vezi somalskih pirata i slicnih situacija). Brod koji nije skup (bojni brodovi te velicine kostaju milijarde), ima resursa da dugo ostane u odrejdenoj zoni, kao plutajuce ostrvo u sukobima gde nemaju za protivnika ozbiljno naoruzanu drzavu ili za sprovodjenje embarga i sl.
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Poslao: 01 Sep 2014 21:39
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LED Lighting Making a Mark on US Navy Ships
 http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140901/DEFREG.....Navy-Ships
Citat:The Navy had a need, not just to make itself more energy efficient, but to get to LED,” said Eric Hilliard, a Navy veteran and president of Energy Focus, a company specializing in LED technology. “They were and are still operating with very old technology — T12 lighting ballast technology. They also have a maintenance need.”
Citat:“We wanted to simply pull out the existing light bulb and put in an LED,” Hilliard explained. “The fixture would have a ballast and a starter that would recognize whether the bulb is fluorescent or an LED. We had to fit into the existing form-fit function completely. There was nothing like this at that time. So we had to invent this and convince the Navy of the safety of the fittings.”
Citat:“We estimate the LED bulb should last 10 years on board a vessel,” he said. “The frequency of change-out could be in 10s of years.”
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Poslao: 12 Sep 2014 16:25
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Evo dobrih vijesti za Lenac! Možda bi u ovaj topic spadala.
Viktor Lenac ugovorio remont i preinaku američkog ratnog broda USS Mount Whitney
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12.09.2014
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U konkurenciji između šest mediteranskih brodogradilišta, Brodogradilište Viktor Lenac uspjelo je ponovno zadobiti povjerenje Američke ratne mornarice i sklopiti ugovor za opširni remont i preinaku elektro-energetskog kompleksa zapovjednog broda 6. flote USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), priopćila je tvrtka.
Projekt koji se očekuje u Brodogradilištu u siječnju 2015. godine za razdoblje od najmanje šest mjeseci uključuje kompletan remont i dokovanje broda, uređenje dijela nastambi i kuhinja na brodu, radove na izmjeni čelične strukture oplate i palubnih kućica.
Posebno je interesantan posao na preinaci postojećeg sustava elektro-energetskog napajanja broda i instalacija novih generatora i elektro-energetskih ploča i kontrolnih mehanizama opreme, te preuređenje sistema preljeva goriva, reverzne osmoze, ispiranja crnih i sivih voda, sistema dojave požara i sl. Visoka složenost ovog projekta iziskivat će da veliki dio brodogradilišnih resursa bude zauzet većim dijelom 2015. godine.
Budući se dokovanje broda očekuje u razdoblju od nešto manje od tri mjeseca, Brodogradilištu će ostati na raspolaganju dovoljno remontnih kapaciteta za ostale poslove.
S ovim profesionalno vrlo zahtjevnim i financijski isplativim projektom, čija vrijednost se očekuje u iznosu od više od 20 milijuna američkih dolara, Brodogradilište će osigurati dobro poslovanje u narednoj godini i moguće daljnje investiranje u modernizaciju brodogradilišnih kapaciteta.
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Poslao: 12 Sep 2014 21:38
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Posle toliko prodaja oružja sumljivim oslobodilačkim vojskama po bliskom istoku i gde god treba, red bi bio da se bar na neki način oduže saveznicima. Mada mislim da će ovakvih ugovora biti još, malo je 20M dolara. A na stranu da hrvatska brodogradilišta nisu sposobna za ovakve poslove, da nisu sposobni, smislili bi neke druge poslove.
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