As a US Navy war veteran: USS Texas is the original "Yeetus Deletus" USS New Jersey is now going to be "Yeetus Deletus Jr" No wonder the US government and US Navy want to reactivate and upgrade these amazing pieces of historical technology, that are know for being floating launchers of car dealerships. Long live the king! Long live... the battleship!
difference is Texas is dead. NJ and Mo actually have been preserved (hypothetically) for reactivation. Probably never happen, would cost Billions to do... But technically possible.
@@user-tr3py5nz2j It means F*ck Around and Find out. Basically its telling the person talking crap, keep doing said dumb action your gonna not like the consequences.
"This is gonna be soooo expensive". Yeah, cuz the costs of ammunition alone, this ship can literally shoot a fucking car-caliber munition xD Imagine that xD
Amen! USS New Jersey is the only one of the four Iowa class battleships I didn't get a chance to operate with. Any one of the four would be something to respect and stand aside for you little Russian P.O.S. They were retired at about the same time I retired and were never beaten.
@@shawncrean9802 I’m still waiting for the day the USN makes the USS Massachusetts real I mean It’s an Iowa class, with stealth capabilities, engines that make it run as fast as a destroyer, cruise missile silos, torpedo tubes, 2 helipads, a runway for F-35s to take off of, and deck guns that would make even the Yamato shit it’s pants And it’s got… wait for it… 2 FUCKING NUCLEAR REACTORS!!! AND ITS BUILT ON A GRF CLASS HULL!!! I don’t normally like how much money the US Military gets annually ($848 billion is too much imo) But I would vote for a percentage of my taxpayer dollars to be diverted to the construction of this ship
@@immaturedemolitions8220 During sea trials for her Vietnam commissioning, USS New Jersey exceeded and maintained 35 knots, all four sisters exceeded their design speed of 32 knots.
@@chrisstencel3631 I'd be more afraid of the Russian merchant fleet than the Russian combat fleet. At least they can keep their merchant vessels running and crewed. Russian ice breakers are world class. Real beasts, which makes a lot of sense when your Russian combat fleet is so fearsome and deadly that it's about to lose it only remaining warm water port with access to the Mediterranean Sea to a country with no real Navy of its own.
@@jejeakle nope, what you're talking about happened in Korea and was a single broadside after getting hit. in Vietnam NJ shelled and island to the point half of it no longer exists
Seeing they cancelled the Zumwalts, and are scrapping the LCS fleet as fast as we are building them and losing a Aircraft carrier in a fire, it's how China got a larger Navy than the US's. We lack ships and sailors. Even if they brought back the Iowas as training vessels, having a couple thousand extra trained and proficient sailors to crew what POS ships the Congress forces on the Navy in the next decade is better than putting green sailors onboard a new ship.
@@twotone3471 china only has the largest fleet by number, we have the largest fleet by tonage, we got more steel in the water than them, they just made more with what steel they have
The Texas is maybe too old. Plus her shafts, props and rudders have been removed. I think the New Jersey, if I'm not mistaken has all her running gear, and her engines where carefully packed in grease, just in case? Yes, bring back the New Jersey.
@@MLGLionKnight For much needed hull repairs, They also removed and replaced the torpedo bulges with mockups to help with buoyancy. The USS Texas will never sail under her own power again, to much time has pased and rust waits for no one.
@@MLGLionKnight I know, I watched the live feed when it was on RU-vid, as she was towed and pushed into the Dry Dock. What I'm saying is that her Shafts have been removes, and the holes where they passed through the hull have been welded shut. Plus her rudders have been removed. I have no idea the state her her engines.
@@longrider42 Look into the black powder industry! The NewJersey is in dry dock being overhauled. The engines could not run because of a clogged vent, its fixed now. Why does a museum need to be sea worthy?? They say its not going back into service but there is an army of historians looking for all the ammunition that was given to other museums. Something is up.
New Jersey should’ve said- “My sister leveled a mountain because she was pissed. I sunken island. And I don’t wanna hear shit until you’ve done something even close to that.”
Big j isn't even that outdated lol, it has tomahawk launchers, and that thick ass armor belt wouldn't even notice a kalibr or shipwreck or whatever edgy name the russians come up with for their newest anti ship missile.
It will cost almost $3 billion to bring back the New Jersey. Already spent way more than that fighting the Houthis and the job is not even close to done. Put the money into something that will be worth the investment and park it of the coast of Yemen. Then put the Lebanese on the phone with the Houthis and have them explain what happens when one of these lets loose. You should look into Black Powder market, something is happening. I don't think New Jersey Department of State and donations can really pay to over haul that ship. They are bring in them BACK!!..again.
That's right I forgot that that added missiles to it. Well in that case the Russian ship has been terribly misinformed that thee New Jersey is outdated. I think the Russians should just save us all the trouble and just scrap it now if the crew has not started stealing parts already for extra cash.
@@seanwhitman8353 uss Nevada: yall need me to stop playing dead? No? Okay, just remember that if you touch my grand baby you will discover what happens when you piss off a spicy Nokia (read this as a southern black woman)
Truth is, big guns only went out of style because missiles have much longer range, but if you’re already in range when the first shot is fired, nothing can save you from those 16inch guns.
1:18 "This is gonna get so expensive" YEAH! Let's reactivate the battleships because MURICA! NJ's in drydock RIGHT NOW. Let's DO IIIITTT!!! Seriously though, with how ridiculous our military is it's kind of surprising we don't have at least 1 battleship just because we can. I'm half convinced they're just waiting to figure out how to build a railgun that doesn't destroy it's own barrel before they build one and then the age of the battleships will return.
The railguns do that because the sheer electric current causes *_PLASMA ARCING_* between the rails (hence why they're called *_RAIL_* guns), and the USN has only been able to get them to fire a good hundred rounds before a complete replacement is needed. Note that naval rifles last for ~500 rounds at the 10+ inch range.
I love the old battleships but the age of the battleship is well and truly gone, and the biggest reason is something a lot of people don’t really think about, everyone says “the armor would just ignore missiles it’s a no brainer” without realizing that an opposing side would simply fit armor piercing warheads onto said missiles, making the battleships as if not *more* vulnerable to fire as any other ship on the sea, simple fact is the lead time on developing and fitting a new warhead to an ASM is orders of magnitude shorter than building or even reactivating the old battleships, I’d highly recommend looking into why we don’t use the battleships anymore it’s very interesting. Another thing people overlook is yes railgun cool, but you don’t need that much velocity unless you’re trying to penetrate heavy *heavy* armor, due to the nature of modern naval combat heavy armor is more of a downside than a benefit and speed is more of a focus, the real reason the navy isn’t fitting everything with a railgun is A. Cost and barrel life, but B. Because nothing out there is heavily armored enough to make it more effective than the missiles and guns we already use. There is a reason that our biggest naval competitor (China) is rushing to build carriers and not modern battleships.
@@captiancholera8459 railguns is not just about armor piercing, it also gives it range. at the end of the day a battle ship is a mobile artillery battery, that is used to attack surface ships & land targets at long ranges. the reason the barrel warps is because the barrels they use are too thin & or too fragile. a 16 inch diameter railgun turret would have more range than a ballistic missile. the battleship isn't obsolete, it just needs new technologies to come along, just like every other war contraption/ invention ever. we have lasers now that can shoot down incoming missiles rapidly, confusing, overheating & overwhelming their sensors. technology will eventually get to a point that EW (electronic warfare) & lasers will make going back to cannon shells the logical choice. because you cannot jam or confuse something that doesn't have a computer. nor shoot down a projectile that has the mass of a high velocity car being thrown at you.
@@captiancholera8459 and the decks aren't armored like the belt of the ship. A GBU-24 or 27 would go right through the deck of most ships. That's the same reason ATGM's fly up and then come down on top of the tanks rather than just hit the sides. And when you consider the real estate available on the deck of a big battleship like an Iowa-class, you'd be foolish to leave the turrets and all that machinery in place rather than replace them with a few hundred VLS cells. With the space offered and the newer radar and fire control systems, you could mount a big enough AEGIS system on one Iowa class battleship to enforce a No-Fly zone around the entire Crimean Peninsula, at least for a short period of time. Two such ships could deny a huge portion of the Taiwan Strait to China. And that's just by themselves and doesn't include other guided missile boats like the Arleigh Burke class destroyers and entire Carrier Strike groups. The age of the big guns on a battleship is over. But if you wanted to gut the BB's down to their hulls, and refit them with nuclear power, and enough missiles and launchers to put more European air forces to shame, you could project an incredible amount of power. Railguns are kinda pointless right now with as good as modern missiles are. The only benefit is cost and like you said, railguns eat themselves in short order.
Even though it was the New Jersey's sister ship , the U.S.S. Wisconsin that got told this when she rearranged the topography of a certain North Korean mountain by deleting it. I feel it is the appropriate response and that response is "temper temper."
SHE, is Big J, SHE is the Jersey Girl, SHE is "The Old Grey Lady" She once sat 15 miles off the coast of Vietnam and fired on a mountain top US FOB to keep my father and other soldiers from being overrun. You give her some god damn respect!
"speak softly, and carry a Big Stick" I don't know if the phrase came to teddy first, or he had it after seeing the ship building, but either way it fits perfectly
While the Orc Tug Boat continues to ramble on, Big J moves in closer to unleash Hell with her nine 16inchers all at once and obliterating the Orc Tug Boat's Main Superstructure and leaving behind a smoldering and slowly sinking wreck soon to become a coral reef in the Baltic Sea.
His 5inchers could do the job. Modern ships aren't really built to take a "punch" like their ancestors had to be. Look at the Cole incident, and all the severely damaged and destroyed Russians in the Black Sea.
"I am a legendary ship ... the most advanced Russia has!" I spent over 20 years in the Intelligence Community little boy, why haven't I ever heard of you? What's your name again?
now theyre bringin the big ol iowas back n action, just imagine the new heavy weaponry and FAR more ADVANCED weapons and weapon systems getting added to their Armageddon arsenal
I had the honor of being one of the few to get to go see the Black Dragon in dry dock getting a new coat of paint and rub the belly of a dragon, as well as boop her nose, I’m all for her getting another battle star and putting her on par with the greatest ship of all time, and if you are a purveyor of WWII history you know which ship I’m talking about
Went onto the deck of the USS New Jersey as a kid during the Rose Parade in Portland, OR. Those 16" guns looked like slides, the fact those shells were 1600 lbs and could make it 16 miles? Bro, just stop.
At one point some of the Iowas had CIWS installed, you can counter a cruise missile. Good luck countering 16" HE because one hit from that is gonna wreck half the ship. Interestingly id be worried AP would but just go in one side and out the other
From Wikipedia: Commissioned 23 May 1943 Decommissioned 30 June 1948 Recommissioned 21 November 1950 Decommissioned 21 August 1957 Recommissioned 6 April 1968 Decommissioned 17 December 1969 Recommissioned 28 December 1982 Decommissioned 8 February 1991 Stricken 4 January 1999 Motto "Firepower for Freedom" Damn. This ship is just to strong to retire.
