Nice video of the USS Wisconsin. It’s good that all four of the Iowa Class battleships are all museum ships. Very respectful of all the veterans who served on these ships.
So I got this video recommended by RU-vid on the 11/7/21 nearly 80 years since Pearl Harbour and 76 years since the end of WW2 just short of Armistice/Veterans Day and as the memories of the War have faded with the passing of the Last of the Greatest Generation around the world we find that Museum Ships/Memorials are the only reminders that we have alongside the Great Cemeteries across the world from Arlington to Belleau Wood in France and the one above and behind Omagh Beach in Normandy and those of our Allies in France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and North Africa wherever they Fell in Battle, maybe we need another reminder besides the Memorials of where Division, Hate, Nationalism and propaganda leads, as those who survived the Holocaust can testify and the graves of the 100 million people who died during WW2 are a Monument to... RIP The Victims of War across the World and those of the Greatest Generation, who fought to restore Freedom and democracy to a Suffering Humanity and all those who came after them who were trying to continue the fight for Freedom and democracy even when things went wrong ...
USS Wisconsin is beautiful and a magnificent battleship, she is in a very good condition to sail back to seas and fire her guns loudly. Sadly, their era is over that they will never have a role again in the modern navy and got out of commission and service for the last time in late 1991. Good video and the music matches as an honour to a great battleship
Looking at that long sleek veiw of the port side reminds me of that great day in pascgula Mississippi when they brought her back to life for the 3rd an final time.
Thank you for the comments. Always love hearing from other drone pilots! I was able to get a close as I did, because I had permission to fly there from the museum, before they opened up for the day.
I helped reactivate and modernize this ship at Ingalls Shipbuilding back in the day. I served as the Material Department representative/point of contact.
@@1badhaircut what destroyers arleigh burkes dont carry jets they only carry search craft litetally no destroyers in the us navy carry and no you’re wrong we dont need giant ships because a cheaper and smaller ship can do way more damage the only thing we would use the battleships for is like coast guns for invasions like support fire for the marines or army
@@mdcclxxxi8509 you completely mis-understood that I agree with you - and why couldn’t every destroyer carry an F-35 and a search/rescue/attack copter ? Any ship can be blown-up so why not a lot of destroyers ? They are deep sea capable. Maybe a drone from a short catapult too or something the aircraft could launch ??? Yes - like Zumwalts - sure those are intimidating especially if they ever get the rail-gun they were built for. Maybe that’s the future navy ?
@@1badhaircut you realize a destroyer wont get touched have you ever heard of this thing called the Close In Weaponry System it fires like 400 bullets every 5 seconds and its what defends the ship from aircraft...... not to mention the tomhawk missles and harpoons......
Tim Andros your drone footage of the USS Wisconsin is amazing coupled with the Pearl Harbor theme used in your RU-vid video, the Pearl Harbor theme coupled with your drone footage of the USS Wisconsin is the perfect marriage.
Has difference with China mounting that department of defense 🤔 should update these 18in guns or modernized them. Not be invain be used for marine Corp landings. Missiles they would run out but with dumb rounds firing heck of a long time that's cheaper.
She is the longest battleship ever build for the US Navy. She crashed into another Navy ship lost her bow, they bolted on the front of the USS Alaska battle cruiser, a class that was never finished and launched .
@@maximusprime49301 from the BB-64 website, check the nickname at the end.. """ Norfolk Naval Shipyard workers fitted a 140-ton, sixty-eight-foot bow section from the unfinished Iowa-class battleship Kentucky to the Wisconsin in record time. Since the Kentucky lacked the famed bull nose of the Wisconsin, her original bull nose was recovered from the damaged portion of the bow and placed on top of the Kentucky portion. Wisconsin was ready for service 16 days later and she departed for Spain on July 9th. Do you think that the crew from the 1940’s had an inclination that something like this would happen when they nicknamed the Wisconsin, WISKY?. WIS (Wisconsin) KY (Kentucky). It is something to think about
The New Jersey actually holds that record. When Wisconsin rammed the destroyer, they cut out the damaged section and replaced only that part, not the entire bow, so it had no effect on the ship's overall length. As Max said, the ship that the bow section came from was the unfinished Kentucky, but Kentucky was an Iowa. None of the Montanas were ever started.
@@autiovaa5255 That's Wisconson and she's 2 feet longer as a result. Also because her sea trials were in the shallow Elizabeth river basin just outside where she is now, she achieve a speed of 39 knots nearly 50 mph. That means she went faster than any other battleship ever.
@@deepseademodiver Tim, my point is simply the ship had them when in commission, it has the Tomahawk ABLs so maybe the curators could ask the USN for help in putting the CIWS mounts and canisters back. The Harpoon racks are there but no canisters. The New Jersey is the only Iowa I know of that has all four original CIWS mounts. For historical accuracy it would help.
The navy doesn't own her any more, she belongs to the city of Norfolk today. The museum she's docked at is owned by the Navy though. As of 2010 she was official transferred to Norfolk ended her naval service forever. In theory she could be reacquired but she's way to vulnerable to modern torpedoes. Now that we live in an age with hypersonic missiles and supercavitating torpedoes she would be setting duck.
My father was in the crew on her maidan voyage and till the end of ww11. Seeing the raising of the flag gives me hope for this nation and the hell Biden's creating.
Actually the bow was cut from the unfinished battle ship U.S.S. Kentucky, and transplanted to the Wisconsin, that recently collided with a destroyer. The Kentucky was sold for scrap afterwards.
