https://www.stollerfamilyestate.com/product/2015-USS-Portland-Commissioning-Pinot-Noir That's a pretty bad ass ship.
The picture of the interior is excellent. To off load the assets, the ship needs a dock as it could not do this in shallow amphibian operations due to the rudders and turn screws.
I'm a space fan. I look at pictures of rockets all day. That sexy shapely bottle would make a pretty bad ass ship. (Shaken, not stirred.) Bulletin: There will be no public commissioning. Paul Allen bought it.
Are you saying it can, or can't, do this? See bottom pictures in this article. https://spaceflightnow.com/2014/12/08/photos-orion-capsule-plucked-from-the-pacific/
jl, I said it needed a dock. Possibly the only items that can be off loaded are amphibious warfare/supply craft; if the Navy required the ramp to be lowered to any angle and locked in that angle. Rough seas are another factor. Tanks, trucks and other land vehicles stay. In contrast, the WW2 landing crafts had front drop down gates.
I asked because in this drawing, the Portland's stern looks like the USS Anchorage in the Orion spacecraft splashdown. http://www.ussportlandlpd27.org/index.php?i=Ship Can they flood the Portland's interior, as they do that of the Anchorage? Edit: I think so, since they're of the same class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio-class_amphibious_transport_dock#Ships_of_the_class
It's architected to do that. The wet well, when flooded, actually stabilizes the ship for unloading and loading ops. (If they do it right. )
This is open-source from Portland's sister ship, the Somerset, LPD 25: https://news.usni.org/2017/06/22/ma...hip-in-first-ever-launch-and-recovery-testing
Check out the pictures in my links. They look like Brian's picture. I hope no one construes my space interest as being pro-military...though I've read about military strategy and technology daily since the early 60s...That's a lot of wars...U.S. foreign policy is usually wrong.
Astronaut John Young has died, the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.
Looks like this will be the first ship to run on nothing but patchouli oil and white privilege in the Navy.
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=44649.0 Well, the Portland will be right there, so why not.
