When I was a Bosun 2nd Class stationed aboard DD987, I had the pleasure of working with a young Engineman 3rd Class Triplett. Super friendly guy, great to work with, and always an infectious smile on his face. After passing on an offer to utilize the Navy’s Enlisted Commissioning Program, I was happy to hear that Triplett would be given the opportunity. We never got to hang out again, but I was happy for him. Years later I was angered to hear about the attack against the USS Cole , and saddened to hear that I’d lost Shipmates in the attack. When I later learned that among those Shipmates lost was my friend Triplett who had received his commission and become the Auxiliary’s Officer aboard USS Cole, I was devastated. He touched my life when we served together, and continues to touch my life as he’s remembered every day by me. Neither I nor anyone else can ever thank him enough for the service and sacrifice he made on behalf of every American citizen. Bravo Zulu my brother, and thank you for standing the watch. BM1(SW) USN
That’s great ! I haven’t done vanity plates, but I do have a USS O’Bannon (DD987) sticker on the back window of my daily driver. We used to stick them on the refueling probes from the replenishment ships we took fuel from while at sea, so it seemed a good idea to have some done up to keep up tradition. I’ve run into a couple Boatswain Mates from various Tin Cans just because they spotted my sticker.
@skipgumphrey9579 O'BANNON was a great ship. Worked with her SO, Herb Kahler in early 90s for the Combat Systems Assessment changes. They were a test ship for the new process and did very well. Crew was well trained and professional. I was on about 60 units a year and I could say that for all of them. And my first ship was AOR2, passing gas to you guys putting stickers on our probes...LOL
Small world for sure ! I left the OB in 92 headed for a stint on the SWAT team at the Navy Prison in Charleston. Sure do miss doing those UNREPS with y’all ! Replenishment at sea was one of my favorite underway tasks. Good thing too considering how much fuel our four LM2500s drank lol 😂
Well said Skip! He was the hardest, best Engineman and Man I've ever had the pleasure to work for... He helped me become the man that I am today. Was he a hardass as a 3rd class? Cause he was HELL ON WHEELS as an E7!
In the post-Vietnam War 70s, Navy SEALs performed Red Flag exercises. One of those were simulated terrorist attacks. They rented a motor boat, roared up to an aircraft carrier at berth, splashed red paint on the hull representing an explosion, and motored away unchallenged. Instead of taking a lesson, the admiral tried to have them court martial.😢
Yea in the late 70s we had ship board training for defense against small boat attack not Navy wide just our Captain and other senior officers felt this was a in port danger
@@reubenmorris487 I was only there for the RIMPAC type exercise they were doing. German, Japanese, British .. all sorts of Navies were in port at that time.
As a retired sailor from DDG-90, USS CHAFEE, a FLT-IIA Burke, no lies detected in this video. I appreciate your attention to detail and respect for all of your topics.
The Cole was built at Ingall's shipyard in Pascagoula, MS. and was returned here to Ingall's for repair. Not Norfolk, VA. We were racing in a sailboat regatta when she was coming in on piggyback after her return from Yemen.
served on Uss Harry W Hill dd-986 back in mid 80s.That ship was also made there.Little did I know many years later while an inpatient at waco va texas I would meet a sailor who was aboard the Cole at the time,Joe Houston.Nice young guy and only 6 months out of boot when it was hit.God bless him last knew he went to live closer to his sister.
It's insane how the class's service life was extended after the attack, i guess. Still working on the 'payback' part, but maybe it's implied that they still have a chance to ruin someone's day?
the Arleigh-Burke class is deffenetly the back bone of the US navy. shout out to the USS Cole, and all the crew members how died on the ship nearly 2 and a half decades ago. rest in peace sailors.
this is why AMERICA is litraly the most respected country on earth. we are out there protecting everyones freedom and if it wasnt for us no one would have any
I don't appreciate the misleading title of this clip. There was nothing I saw that had anything to do with a payback mission, unless the upgrades are considered payback...which I do not. It would have been nice to see some payback.
The Cole was NOT brought back to Norfolk to be repaired, it was brought back to the shipyard that built it, Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula Mississippi. I was there.
My dad was stationed on two Gearing class destroyers. I believe that this and the Fletcher class are the only two destroyer types that were produced in greater numbers than Arleigh-Burke, Fletcher, by a huge margin (175). Hopefully we'll never need to build and crew warships in that quantity ever again
Forget which WW2 upload and yep it was here on Dark Seas but a destroyer in back up for land troops was doing a bit of landscape rearrangement , they where fired upon and the captain called for another full broadside on what was left of the shore line, not much and the first officer said 'Captain? ' that was a classic .
Yemen must be in the news ;) Seriously though, can’t blame you. I remember when this happened. To their credit, the Yemenize government did its best to make up for the incident. The ship’s survival is a testament to its engineering, the training and courage of its crew, and God loving the Navy that day.
@@navret1707 It may well be the one thing that they are best at. Remember the Stark? An Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate, took one of those Exocet missiles that sank the British destroyer, and her crew kept her floating.
@@nunya3163I remember the Stark, I worked on fixing the Samuel B Roberts when it came to Portland Maine on a dry dock ship. I started on the Ticonderoga class at BIW and finished on the Burke class. I was a fourth generation shipbuilder in that shipyard. My great grandfather also worked as a security guard there following promptly leaving Spain where he was a police officer. He is the second recorded employee of the security department. They don’t have records of them before him and one other. He served in WW1 and WW2, a fine man. Proud to have worked on so many that I cannot remember all the names. The Gettysburg, Shiloh, Arleigh Burke, The Fitzgerald, the Sammy B and on and on. Warfare is changing, like this video said, these ships were designed to neutralize all incoming threats, the Exocet being every other ships Achilles heel was no match for the DDG-51 class. Now these newer class Flight DDGS with twin helicopters 🚁 and lack of towed arrays are just where the changes are the most obvious. Yeah they ran a kamakaze ship into one in Yemen, but that would never happen to one with all its Spidey Senses activated. God help those who attack a Burke class and may they meet a speedy death, because they will meet a lethality they never dreamt of. May the worlds seas be free of tyranny, if you are thinking of breaking an escort or interfering with a freedom of navigation with “deadly force” with one, turn tail and live another day, reassess the value of human life, or keep a pocket full of coins to put on you and your mates eyes and pray it’s enough to traverse the Styx.
@@nunya3163 If you mean HMS Sheffield, she wasn't sunk by the Exocet but severely damaged and abandoned. She actually sank about a week later in rough weather whilst being towed to port. A lot of painful lessons were learned from the loss of the Sheffield. Two senior officers on the ship came close to being court-martialled and the Captain probably should have been.
Was on the USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) when Cole was hit. We escorted the MV Blue Marlin through the Straits of Hormuz when she was going to go carry the Cole home. Some people in OPS started a rumor that we were going to escort them all the way to the east coast (we were homeported in Hawaii). After a day or two Skipper had to get on the 1MC and tell us "No that's is not happening." It was funny after the fact. But I don't know anyone the served on an Arleigh that didn't think where they would have been at the time. God bless Those in Peril on the Sea.
@3:27, THAT IS an ingenious way to plug a leak in a "damage scenario" 😂 WOW, the things that you get to see in historical/old photos, is really cool 😎 history rules... LITERALLY... and I quote... "those who don't know history, are doomed to repeat it."
I guess the segment of the video about the "insane payback mission" got edited out. That's too bad, it sounded like it could have been exciting and heroic.
I had the chance to visit USS Cole when it was here in NYC for Fleet Week years ago and stood at the spot with others where the suicide boat detonated. Even I got goosebumps. The Arleigh Burke Class is unique in itself having lasted for so long. Like everything with time though, the older platforms will have to go to the scrapyard and no doubt there will need to be serious development on its replacement. The DDX Program is a warning of when ship building goes wrong and should be a lesson for any future class of destroyers that the Navy tries to produce.
This was a great video. I had the privilege of participating in sea trials on the USS O'Kane DDG77 back in 1999. I worked in the mess on this ship for the 5 days we were out to sea. It was great experience and one I would do again.
The destroyer lost (2:17) was from an iron dumb bomb dropped from an A.4. Skyhawk, and not any missile. Missiles had other duties to perform in the Falklands!
Spent time on the John King DDG3. That was the late Seventies early Eighties. I was really surprised when the Cole got nailed. Fair Winds and following Seas shipmates. My condolences to their family and friends.
Dividing machinery so that a single hit cannot disable a ship is called the unit system and has been used in USN warships since at least the 1930s (e.g. CL-49, USS St. Louis).
Arleigh-Burkes aren’t going anywhere. There’s 73 of them in service, 10 more on deck at Bath Ironworks, and 9 more ordered. That’s just of the existing design models. You can bet the next set of guided missile frigates will be some newer generation of Arleighs too. Its successor, the Zumwalt class, has been an abject failure and all orders are now cancelled. Only 2 of 3 produced have stealth material, none of their AGS 155mm cannons work, and all their proposed “next generation” weapon upfits have also been scrapped (railgun, etc). The existing Zumwalts are set to be retrofitted for hypersonic missile systems. They are only useful as a missile frigate, they can’t do all the same stuff Arleighs can do.
I had a close friend who was on board. Had minor injuries and was right next to the destroyed part of the ship. She didn't talk in great detail but said it was tramatic to say the least. She stayed on board and was treated and stayed on duty. One heck of a woman she is.
I've personally seen part of the speed destroyers are capable of (probably classified) and believe me, they can keep up with the carriers. All of which borders on unbelievable!!!!
Find a picture of a DDG in dry dock. Look at the twin, five bladed, variable pitch propellers. Like looking at the slicks on a dragster. @@stevenmarsh3706
The Burke class is not "highly armored." In fact, they have very little armor. The days of "armor belts" are long gone, because torpedoes no longer hit the side of a ship, but explode under it, breaking it's back, no matter how much armor they might have. The upper desks have some armor, but nothing that would turn a missile or 5" hit.
So what exactly was the "Insane Payback Mission after (the) infamous attack"? You never said. Stop with the clickbait headlines. You should know better than that. Shame on you.
Maybe they should refit them with the same armor plates the Abrams main battle tanks use? On the sides so any missiles or bombs will be stopped. Since anti-ship weapons are getting much more of a threat now and since if the anti-missile systems are out of action, the ships will still be protected.
Due to buoyancy and stability, not going to happen. First off, you can't get enough armor to defeat an modern cruise missile warhead. They tried this with Kevlar mod to DD-963s, but cancelled it. I was on DD984 in our PSA in P'Goula, and one of the class was in the floating drydock, with the mod installed. (DD963s) had aluminum superstructures, and the DDG-51s had steel instead, due to the USS BELKNAP/JFK collision fire and damage). When they floated her, the ship had an almost (IIRC) 2 deg list. The SHIPALT was cancelled as a result.
Question: Do they still call destroyers "Tin Cans"? My father was was picked up by the USS Duncan in WWII when the USS Wasp CV-7 was torpedoed by the Japanese. Since I was not born until 1949, without the Duncan, I wouldn't be typing this question.
"Unique Weapon Types". Hehe. You mean Helios, a 30mW laser system designed to shoot down basically anything that flies for about the cost of a cup of coffee. I mean after all, why waste multi-million dollar missiles if you don't have to?
Really!!! @2:20 that’s the ARA General Belgrano sunk by a Royal Navy submarine (HMS Conqueror) during the Falklands campaign, not any of the British destroyers hit by Argentine bombs or missiles during the conflict. The image choices on this channel are unbelievably ignorant.
When I was a Bosun 2nd Class stationed aboard DD987, I had the pleasure of working with a young Engineman 3rd Class Triplett. Super friendly guy, great to work with, and always an infectious smile on his face. After passing on an offer to utilize the Navy’s Enlisted Commissioning Program, I was happy to hear that Triplett would be given the opportunity.
We never got to hang out again, but I was happy for him. Years later I was angered to hear about the attack against the USS Cole , and saddened to hear that I’d lost Shipmates in the attack. When I later learned that among those Shipmates lost was my friend Triplett who had received his commission and become the Auxiliary’s Officer aboard USS Cole, I was devastated. He touched my life when we served together, and continues to touch my life as he’s remembered every day by me. Neither I nor anyone else can ever thank him enough for the service and sacrifice he made on behalf of every American citizen. Bravo Zulu my brother, and thank you for standing the watch.
BM1(SW) USN
my grandfather was a Bosun on the DD-867 “stribling” he did 7 world tours my license plate says (USS STRB) 👍
That’s great ! I haven’t done vanity plates, but I do have a USS O’Bannon (DD987) sticker on the back window of my daily driver. We used to stick them on the refueling probes from the replenishment ships we took fuel from while at sea, so it seemed a good idea to have some done up to keep up tradition. I’ve run into a couple Boatswain Mates from various Tin Cans just because they spotted my sticker.
@skipgumphrey9579 O'BANNON was a great ship. Worked with her SO, Herb Kahler in early 90s for the Combat Systems Assessment changes. They were a test ship for the new process and did very well. Crew was well trained and professional. I was on about 60 units a year and I could say that for all of them. And my first ship was AOR2, passing gas to you guys putting stickers on our probes...LOL
Small world for sure ! I left the OB in 92 headed for a stint on the SWAT team at the Navy Prison in Charleston. Sure do miss doing those UNREPS with y’all ! Replenishment at sea was one of my favorite underway tasks. Good thing too considering how much fuel our four LM2500s drank lol 😂
Well said Skip! He was the hardest, best Engineman and Man I've ever had the pleasure to work for... He helped me become the man that I am today. Was he a hardass as a 3rd class? Cause he was HELL ON WHEELS as an E7!
In the post-Vietnam War 70s, Navy SEALs performed Red Flag exercises. One of those were simulated terrorist attacks. They rented a motor boat, roared up to an aircraft carrier at berth, splashed red paint on the hull representing an explosion, and motored away unchallenged. Instead of taking a lesson, the admiral tried to have them court martial.😢
Yea in the late 70s we had ship board training for defense against small boat attack not Navy wide just our Captain and other senior officers felt this was a in port danger
Admirals are just officer-chiefs.
-former AT2
Sounds about right for chair bound brass hats.
Yeah….that admiral should have been given a court martial.
Tried? I presume that didn't work well.
Was in Norfolk when this happened. Never seen a base go into lockdown and on alert so quick.
I was just starting in boot camp. Had 3 or 4 people just "leave" out of nowhere. Sep 11 was way crazy for you guys at NAS Norfolk I'd guess.
@@reubenmorris487 I was only there for the RIMPAC type exercise they were doing. German, Japanese, British .. all sorts of Navies were in port at that time.
As a retired sailor from DDG-90, USS CHAFEE, a FLT-IIA Burke, no lies detected in this video. I appreciate your attention to detail and respect for all of your topics.
The Cole was built at Ingall's shipyard in Pascagoula, MS. and was returned here to Ingall's for repair. Not Norfolk, VA. We were racing in a sailboat regatta when she was coming in on piggyback after her return from Yemen.
served on Uss Harry W Hill dd-986 back in mid 80s.That ship was also made there.Little did I know many years later while an inpatient at waco va texas I would meet a sailor who was aboard the Cole at the time,Joe Houston.Nice young guy and only 6 months out of boot when it was hit.God bless him last knew he went to live closer to his sister.
Still waiting on the story of the "Isane Payback Mission"!!! Title is a bit misleading.
Clickbait title
There was a lot of good information about this class of Destroyer but where was the 'insane payback' part?😮
It's insane how the class's service life was extended after the attack, i guess. Still working on the 'payback' part, but maybe it's implied that they still have a chance to ruin someone's day?
the Arleigh-Burke class is deffenetly the back bone of the US navy. shout out to the USS Cole, and all the crew members how died on the ship nearly 2 and a half decades ago. rest in peace sailors.
this is why AMERICA is litraly the most respected country on earth. we are out there protecting everyones freedom and if it wasnt for us no one would have any
I don't appreciate the misleading title of this clip. There was nothing I saw that had anything to do with a payback mission, unless the upgrades are considered payback...which I do not. It would have been nice to see some payback.
So what was the 'insane' payback mission?!?
I was getting near the end and started wondering the same thing...
Sorry, but did I miss something? What was the "Insane Payback Mission" the destroyer undertook?
What was the insane revenge mentioned in the title?????
The Cole was NOT brought back to Norfolk to be repaired, it was brought back to the shipyard that built it, Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula Mississippi. I was there.
I have an uncle that worked in that shipyard. He's been gone for years but really neat to drive by the place and see the ships getting built.
My dad was stationed on two Gearing class destroyers. I believe that this and the Fletcher class are the only two destroyer types that were produced in greater numbers than Arleigh-Burke, Fletcher, by a huge margin (175). Hopefully we'll never need to build and crew warships in that quantity ever again
Please turn down the background noise/music, especially during narration!
Forget which WW2 upload and yep it was here on Dark Seas but a destroyer in back up for land troops was doing a bit of landscape rearrangement , they where fired upon and the captain called for another full broadside on what was left of the shore line, not much and the first officer said 'Captain? ' that was a classic .
As a U.S. submarine vet, sonar supervisor, it was fun to dance without being detected. Anyway, hats off to my skimmer buds.
Former USS Ramage DDG-61 sailor checking in. LETS FCKING GO
I was stationed in Norfolk for 14 years; 1989-2003. I'm a Tin Can Sailor; USS Semmes DDG 18 1983-84 and USS Kinkaid DD 965 1987-89.
A 40 by 40 ft whole!? That's massive, 80foot wide, man! I dunno how many foots long an EarlyBird destroyer is, but that's a beeg whole in your boat!
Bravo Zulu to Admiral Arleigh “31 knot” Burke!
@2:15 ~ that's the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano being promoted to submarine...
Yemen must be in the news ;)
Seriously though, can’t blame you. I remember when this happened. To their credit, the Yemenize government did its best to make up for the incident. The ship’s survival is a testament to its engineering, the training and courage of its crew, and God loving the Navy that day.
Damage control is something the Navy does right.
@@navret1707 It may well be the one thing that they are best at. Remember the Stark? An Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate, took one of those Exocet missiles that sank the British destroyer, and her crew kept her floating.
@@nunya3163I remember the Stark, I worked on fixing the Samuel B Roberts when it came to Portland Maine on a dry dock ship. I started on the Ticonderoga class at BIW and finished on the Burke class. I was a fourth generation shipbuilder in that shipyard. My great grandfather also worked as a security guard there following promptly leaving Spain where he was a police officer. He is the second recorded employee of the security department. They don’t have records of them before him and one other. He served in WW1 and WW2, a fine man. Proud to have worked on so many that I cannot remember all the names. The Gettysburg, Shiloh, Arleigh Burke, The Fitzgerald, the Sammy B and on and on. Warfare is changing, like this video said, these ships were designed to neutralize all incoming threats, the Exocet being every other ships Achilles heel was no match for the DDG-51 class. Now these newer class Flight DDGS with twin helicopters 🚁 and lack of towed arrays are just where the changes are the most obvious. Yeah they ran a kamakaze ship into one in Yemen, but that would never happen to one with all its Spidey Senses activated. God help those who attack a Burke class and may they meet a speedy death, because they will meet a lethality they never dreamt of. May the worlds seas be free of tyranny, if you are thinking of breaking an escort or interfering with a freedom of navigation with “deadly force” with one, turn tail and live another day, reassess the value of human life, or keep a pocket full of coins to put on you and your mates eyes and pray it’s enough to traverse the Styx.
@@nunya3163 If you mean HMS Sheffield, she wasn't sunk by the Exocet but severely damaged and abandoned. She actually sank about a week later in rough weather whilst being towed to port. A lot of painful lessons were learned from the loss of the Sheffield. Two senior officers on the ship came close to being court-martialled and the Captain probably should have been.
Did I miss it? What was the "insane payback mission"?
Was on the USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) when Cole was hit. We escorted the MV Blue Marlin through the Straits of Hormuz when she was going to go carry the Cole home. Some people in OPS started a rumor that we were going to escort them all the way to the east coast (we were homeported in Hawaii). After a day or two Skipper had to get on the 1MC and tell us "No that's is not happening." It was funny after the fact.
But I don't know anyone the served on an Arleigh that didn't think where they would have been at the time.
God bless Those in Peril on the Sea.
Awesome story thank you for the detail.
At 2:47, "an overall height of over 500 feet" . . . oops.
I noticed an error in this report. The Cole was not repaired in Virginia, as this report states. It was repaired at Ingall’s in Pascagoula, MS.
Gee I'm sorry I meant when she was placed back in service to her home port 😊 OK
RIP LT. J.G. Andrew Triplett, you'll forever be an inspiration to me and many others, we miss you Chief...
Haze gray and underway baby!
So what exactly was the "Insane Payback Mission" aside from click bait?
I personally know 4 people who served on her that day, and currently work with one. We do ship visits and he doesn't get assigned to her.
@3:27, THAT IS an ingenious way to plug a leak in a "damage scenario" 😂 WOW, the things that you get to see in historical/old photos, is really cool 😎 history rules... LITERALLY... and I quote... "those who don't know history, are doomed to repeat it."
I remember when this happened, it was unbelievable that a person would do this.
Welcome to the world of Islamic terror.
Those early ships extended to 40+ years all have the latest baseline 9 combat system, is why they're being extended.
Was on the engineering team that started detail design and equipment specs in 1985. Great ships.they
I guess the segment of the video about the "insane payback mission" got edited out. That's too bad, it sounded like it could have been exciting and heroic.
@2:46 - “…had an overall height of almost 500ft.” Now that’s a tall boat, ha. 😉✌️
I love ALL your channels. However I find myself having to "re-subscribe" almost weekly to at least one of em.
I had the chance to visit USS Cole when it was here in NYC for Fleet Week years ago and stood at the spot with others where the suicide boat detonated. Even I got goosebumps.
The Arleigh Burke Class is unique in itself having lasted for so long. Like everything with time though, the older platforms will have to go to the scrapyard and no doubt there will need to be serious development on its replacement. The DDX Program is a warning of when ship building goes wrong and should be a lesson for any future class of destroyers that the Navy tries to produce.
There is no way any destroyer has "a height of 500 feet."
Okay so the “insane payback mission”? Was it to bring her back to service?
Where was the "insane payback mission" in the video like the video's title says????? Fail!😄
This was a great video. I had the privilege of participating in sea trials on the USS O'Kane DDG77 back in 1999. I worked in the mess on this ship for the 5 days we were out to sea. It was great experience and one I would do again.
At 2:15 the video shows a photo of the stricken Argentine ship Gen. Belgrano, not a destroyer as implied by your narration.
The destroyer lost (2:17) was from an iron dumb bomb dropped from an A.4. Skyhawk, and not any missile. Missiles had other duties to perform in the Falklands!
The screen shot was also wrong, showing the Argentine ship Belgrano sinking.
So what was the “insane payback mission” referred to in the title?
Very well done
Beautiful ships, I was Navy, 1971-77. HT2
Spent time on the John King DDG3.
That was the late Seventies early Eighties.
I was really surprised when the Cole got nailed.
Fair Winds and following Seas shipmates.
My condolences to their family and friends.
Make sure the Ramage fights the same as the Namesake. Look up Ramage's Rampage!
500 feet tall ? You might wanna double check that number.
Dividing machinery so that a single hit cannot disable a ship is called the unit system and has been used in USN warships since at least the 1930s (e.g. CL-49, USS St. Louis).
@2:45 An overall height of 500 feet? I had no idea that they were that tall!!!
I was wondering about that as well, obviously he meant length.
Arleigh-Burkes aren’t going anywhere. There’s 73 of them in service, 10 more on deck at Bath Ironworks, and 9 more ordered. That’s just of the existing design models. You can bet the next set of guided missile frigates will be some newer generation of Arleighs too.
Its successor, the Zumwalt class, has been an abject failure and all orders are now cancelled. Only 2 of 3 produced have stealth material, none of their AGS 155mm cannons work, and all their proposed “next generation” weapon upfits have also been scrapped (railgun, etc). The existing Zumwalts are set to be retrofitted for hypersonic missile systems. They are only useful as a missile frigate, they can’t do all the same stuff Arleighs can do.
I don't think they can do what the Oliver Hazard Perry's could do either.
I had a close friend who was on board. Had minor injuries and was right next to the destroyed part of the ship. She didn't talk in great detail but said it was tramatic to say the least. She stayed on board and was treated and stayed on duty. One heck of a woman she is.
The ship # 125 is the newest addition, and she has the new SPY-6(V)1 AMDR radar, a version of which ( (v)4 ) will be retrofitted to DDGs 91-112.
Why skip even mentioning the venerable Spruance class destroyers?
People don't realize the carriers are the fastest large ships in the navy.
Ask the guys who served on board carriers - especially the Enterprise...
I've personally seen part of the speed destroyers are capable of (probably classified) and believe me, they can keep up with the carriers. All of which borders on unbelievable!!!!
Find a picture of a DDG in dry dock. Look at the twin, five bladed, variable pitch propellers. Like looking at the slicks on a dragster. @@stevenmarsh3706
The Burke class is not "highly armored." In fact, they have very little armor. The days of "armor belts" are long gone, because torpedoes no longer hit the side of a ship, but explode under it, breaking it's back, no matter how much armor they might have. The upper desks have some armor, but nothing that would turn a missile or 5" hit.
Okay dude, you're slipping. Clickbait title and then thtowimg in bad info/clips-? You can do way better
A truly beautiful, and deadly boat, the very best, still!!!!
USS Cole should be a museum ship after it has had it's time in the US Navy because of her legacy.
2:45 Arleigh Burke's have an overall height of almost 500 feet and a displacement
of almost 9,000 tons.......Thats a very TALL ship..............
8:17 It seems like it’d be impossible to load the USS Cole onto a barge, and ship it somewhere else!
Does the American Navy have heavy cruisers, and how big are they
This was incorrect. The USS COLE went to Pascagoula, MS for repairs. Not Norfolk. I was there when she arrived.
You state the Brits lost a destroyer in the Falklands war (HMS Sheffield) but the picture shown is the Argentine cruise ARS Belgrano sinking.
"height of nearly 500ft"? per chance did you mean "length" (~2m40s)
What was the payback mission
So what was the payback mission?
So what exactly was the "Insane Payback Mission after (the) infamous attack"? You never said. Stop with the clickbait headlines. You should know better than that. Shame on you.
i watch all the video in all your channels . great video man amazing
Sooo, what was the payback mission?
Maybe they should refit them with the same armor plates the Abrams main battle tanks use?
On the sides so any missiles or bombs will be stopped. Since anti-ship weapons are getting much more of a threat now and since if the anti-missile systems are out of action,
the ships will still be protected.
Due to buoyancy and stability, not going to happen. First off, you can't get enough armor to defeat an modern cruise missile warhead. They tried this with Kevlar mod to DD-963s, but cancelled it. I was on DD984 in our PSA in P'Goula, and one of the class was in the floating drydock, with the mod installed. (DD963s) had aluminum superstructures, and the DDG-51s had steel instead, due to the USS BELKNAP/JFK collision fire and damage). When they floated her, the ship had an almost (IIRC) 2 deg list. The SHIPALT was cancelled as a result.
Question: Do they still call destroyers "Tin Cans"? My father was was picked up by the USS Duncan in WWII when the USS Wasp CV-7 was torpedoed by the Japanese. Since I was not born until 1949, without the Duncan, I wouldn't be typing this question.
Let's hope the modernization of the Arleigh-Burke Destroyers go better the the modernization program of Ticonderoga-Class Cruisers
Aden is pronounced "aid'en." Not add'en.
I believe the reason why he mispronounced this is copyright laws. If you notice he does this on other videos.
@@ernestweaver5544copyright on the name of a city?
@@ernestweaver5544 Correct pronunciation is not subject to copyright.
I suspect the audio is AI.
@@gusgone4527 See above reply.
HOW WE GON TAKE OVER THE WORLD TODAY MY MOST FAITHFUL AIRCRAFT CARRIER?
CLICKBAIT!! Great story but NO INSANE PAYBACK!!!!!!!
USS Cole was commissioned in 1995/1996
Wonder what ship design can outperform what many Sailors I have known as “the perfect design” for its versatility and overall survivability???
Length of 500 ft not height 😂
Someone could make a top quality channel by cutting out the middle section of all these videos.
That is one tall ship at 500 feet.
What was the “insane payback”?
Fantastic video, but I can’t help but think that the title is clickbait to some degree. Still, informative as always.
"Unique Weapon Types". Hehe. You mean Helios, a 30mW laser system designed to shoot down basically anything that flies for about the cost of a cup of coffee. I mean after all, why waste multi-million dollar missiles if you don't have to?
Really!!! @2:20 that’s the ARA General Belgrano sunk by a Royal Navy submarine (HMS Conqueror) during the Falklands campaign, not any of the British destroyers hit by Argentine bombs or missiles during the conflict.
The image choices on this channel are unbelievably ignorant.
A design having its service life extended isn't exactly what I'd call an "insane payback mission", even if the boat itself is cool.
My timeline is way off, I could of sworn the Cole attack was a decade after 9/11 when it was a year before.
They are called "destroyers" for a reason.
Why was there a photo of the Belgrano sunk by a RN SSN when the commentary was talking about lessons learnt for the RN surface fleet - poor edit !
Dislike because of the clickbait title.
whats the payback?
Do not give up the ship
When does the "insane" payback story happen?? Tease much.
What if those torpedoes just pop out of the water how will it be detected.
This is such a misleading title. I reported it under misleading and spam.
500 feet high. Wow
Lol. Height 500'!?? How about length of 500'.