LA's with pumpjet propulsors...

[SeaQueen]

Originally Posted by Linton

If you transfer from one boat to another do you get a briefing first on the current mod state of the boat you are going to?

I dunno. I've never been in the service. From talking to people, my sense of things is that it's much more like hands-on training at sea combined with classes ashore so that you ought to be capable of operating whatever you find there.

Some ships, particularly older ones, are pretty obviously modified. Like that old Spruance with the odd looking radar mast. They also had other less obvious modifications. Another example is the LAs with dry deck shelters. Another example is the Arleigh Burkes. There's at least three different variants out there right now. When you see ships tied up at the pier, you'll notice they all have different numbers of machine guns and grenade launchers mounted on them. A lot of it is little things like that, which aren't necessarily massive changes to the whole system that require programatic changes. There's things like different software versions, and minor hardware changes which might not effect functionality from an operator's end, but affect performance. P-3s are REALLY bad as far as all of them being different.

The whole thing is called "spiral development." It's expensive but it keeps engineers working, which makes Congress happy. :-)

[Henson]

We earn our dolphins only once, but are required to 're-qualify' on each Submarine we are assigned to, as well as every watchstation we stand. Consider that process to be 'differences training.'

[Avatar]

So what's the answer? I posted a similar thread in the gen. dis. section. At Ron Martini's website there are pictures of the USS Columbia when she was launched and it looks like there is a pumpjet propulsor shroud on her.
oh yeah, Columbia is 771.

[LoBlo]

Originally Posted by Avatar

So what's the answer? I posted a similar thread in the gen. dis. section. At Ron Martini's website there are pictures of the USS Columbia when she was launched and it looks like there is a pumpjet propulsor shroud on her.
oh yeah, Columbia is 771.

Got a link? I'ld like to see that.