Drydocking Battleship New Jersey, From Start to Finish | The Portholes Podcast - Ep.17

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In this episode, Battleship New Jersey has completed her period in drydock from March to June 2024. As a follow up to our first episode in January, Jack and Ryan discuss the details from start to finish.
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11 окт 2024

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@stevewindisch7400 2 месяца назад

Congrats to Ryan and the New Jersey crew for a truly successful drydocking! WELL DONE!

@garywayne6083 2 месяца назад

The tour was so nice I went twice!! Amazing to see the before and after - thanks to the whole staff for doing such good work to preserve her for us.

@redtailpunk Месяц назад

i couldnt make it to the east coast during the dry docking, so lets say you went once for you and once for everyone else like me haha. so glad people were so stoked!

@subman719 2 месяца назад

I’m very thankful that Ryan provided the Dry Dock tour opportunity! I had a great dry dock tour and it was great to meet Ryan!

@KPen3750 2 месяца назад

The coolest part for me (as both tour guide and mechanical engineering student) was seeing the welded repairs on the hull. The clad welded repairs with how the weld filling flash rusted a different color to the original steel and how clearly visible the new metal was compared to the 80 year old steel. It was just amazing and i hope we can do it again in another 34 years

@lexington476 2 месяца назад

14:53 now that is something you don't think about, the fish coming in with the fish 🐟🐠🐟🐠😎.

@charlesmaurer6214 2 месяца назад

Also like a the pier the navy having the trim as it was helped to shed water underway from the deck and shield the deck from the sea at the higher bow.

@DirtNastyCivilian 2 месяца назад

What’s needed is a modern interpretation of the battleship. Modernized guns utilizing guided sabot rounds, more missile systems and a heavy focus in fleet defense systems. Something that can cover itself and everything around it from incoming.

@BearingStraight 2 месяца назад

Agreed. Anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense are essential missions for any modern surface combatant. We also haven't been able to build a successful surface combatant after the Tico CGs and Arleigh Burke DDGs. Unfortunately, the crews required for a BB were even too large for the 1980s and 1990s and well beyond the ability of the contemporary navy to manage.

@BearingStraight 2 месяца назад

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

@charlesmaurer6214 2 месяца назад

I think a hybrid BB sized and styled design makes a lot of sense based on about double a missile cruiser's load in missiles, trade the remaining big guns space for rail guns (Smaller for same effect and reduced magazine risk) and aft about a four bird, 2 bay hanger for VSTOL or Helicopters (shifting the aft gun on top) and a reduced sized well deck for special ops teams. Could run smaller independent missions or add to a landing assault carrier force depending on needs. Have a suite of antiair and 5 inch as secondaries equal to a pair of old Ageis class on each side. With automation, crew could be cut as no more than three should be needed for the Main rail guns or any 5 inch. Also nuke drive systems and perhaps like in Red October or PT boats add a water jet system to the area that would include the torpedo blisters to aid the main screws, (radiator coils for the ship could also use the jet's duck work to help disperse heat and shield the coils.)

@charlesmaurer6214 2 месяца назад

The weight of a curator I'm sure went down during the drydock just from all those extra stairs every day.

@charlesmaurer6214 2 месяца назад

I'd rather think keeping the props is so in some future when the Navy agrees, she can do a rare run under her own power after a proper restoration to functional level.

@charlesmaurer6214 2 месяца назад

I still think a fish dinner would have been a good idea when they drain a drydock serving a fish and chips shop.

@charlesmaurer6214 2 месяца назад

Now Ryan charge him a fee for headbutting your ship. LOL.

@lostiburonesoffroad4x4 2 месяца назад

Keeping the water on the outside

@BearingStraight 2 месяца назад

Always a win! Thanks for watching!

@user-tn1vc1xz5d 2 месяца назад

I find the old school engineering of dry docks oddly fascinating. OK I'm a chemical engineer, not really a surprise 😂😂😂

@redtailpunk Месяц назад

we finally found hoffa

@Knight6831 2 месяца назад

Considering New Jersey's fuel transfer pipes have rotted away and the values are too far gone, the USS New Jersey can never be reactivated plus the boilers and steam turbines are at the end of their lives.

@BearingStraight 2 месяца назад

Almost anything is possible if there's the requirement and the will, which translate into affordability, but the Columbia-class SSBN will kneecap the Navy's shipbuilding and conversion plan anyway. It's the only program that, no matter the cost, both political parties consider affordable.

@BearingStraight 2 месяца назад

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!