[QUOTE=Jimbuna;2425828][CENTER]2 "Abtao" class submarines, - ex. US Navy "Mackerel" Class -, moored alongside a "Guppy 1A" class sub.

But, but, but, the Us navy only HAD two Mackerel class subs, and that Guppy 1A has a Guppy 3 sail!

Imagine my surprise to learn that we made 4 Mackerels for Peru. And that 1A boat could certainly have received a later Guppy 3 sail before being sold to Peru.

Oh the things we learn...

Could be the details accompanying the picture are incorrect :hmmm:

USS America (LHA 6)
https://i2.wp.com/news.usni.org/wp-c...g?w=1250&ssl=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ba...ham_(1914).jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ba...m_explodes.jpg

HMS Braham explodes

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdrISbwy_zI

:Kaleun_Cheers:

Antiaircraft guns fire as Japanese planes attack US Navy ships
 

US Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga at sea during fleet exercises
 

World's smallest serving carrier
 

HTMS Chakri Naruebet is the flagship of the Royal Thai Navy (RTN)https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ebet_2001.JPEGUsed primarily in major disasters typhoons and sunami related events with its helicopters: when U need help dial 911?? http://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/detail.asp?ship_id=RTN-Chakri-Naruebet-CVS911 >joint exercise with a big U.S. buddy. https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qim...t_to_webp=true The Thai flagship carrier has provisions for up to 675 troops, bases 6 Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk and 4 MH-60S Seaknight Helicopters with facilities for 12 additional.

U.S. Navy warships on maneuvers in Pacific Ocean during Fleet Problem XIX in 1938
 

HISTORY'S FIRST HYBRID?
 

In late 1916, two British destroyers of the 6th Flotilla in the Dover Patrol—Nubian and Zulu—were badly damaged by German attacks in the English Channel. Nubian's bow had been destroyed by a torpedo from a German torpedo boat on 26 October,https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...-HMSNubian.jpg while Zulu had her stern blown off by a mine in the Channel on 8 November, and was towed to Calais. Both wrecks were then towed to Chatham Dockyard, where a complete destroyer was constructed by joining the foreparts of Zulu with the stern of Nubian,and despite a 3.5 inches (89 mm) difference in beam,the unique operation was successful. The ship was renamed Zubian by Admiral Reginald Bacon, the commander of the Dover Patrol. The hybrid destroyer was commissioned on 7 June 1917. The choice of name caused confusion among the German Imperial Admiralty Staff, who knew of no such ship under construction. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...HMS_Zubian.jpg THE hybrid EFFORT PAID OFF:

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On 4 February 1918, she encountered the mine-laying UC-50 in the Dover Strait; the U-boat was surfaced about 400 yards (370 m) off Zubian's port bow with her radio antennae up. Zubian attempted to ram the submarine but the Germans managed to submerge. The destroyer then dropped depth charges over the submerged U-boat and a significant amount of oil and wreckage was observed thereafter. Zubian marked the location with a buoy and an hour later, the patrol vessel HMS P12 dropped additional depth charges there. Trawlers later located an object that divers confirmed was UC-50.

a considerable victory as UC-50 (kapitänleutnant Rudolf Seuffer), had sunk 29 vessels; five of which were Royal Navy vessels.

Russian Delta IV surfaced somewhere under the ice.

https://c4.staticflickr.com/2/1479/2...0175d49e_z.jpgDelta IV SSBN in the Arctic ice by Blair shaw, on Flickr

That old carrier is getting up there in years Jim, 1964 = 52 years I think that's what she is, but here's a better one called a LHD Iwo Jima-7

http://www.maritimequest.com/warship...jima_lhd_7.jpg