> "Rune Aasgaard" <rune.aasga...@online.no> wrote:

> >As far as I know the SPY-1 series will be discontinued for US new
> >construction by the end of the DDG-51 series ca. 2010.

> Which means USN will be supporting SPY-1 through 2040 at least.

> And with Spain, Japan, and Korea also SPY-1 customers, there is a large
> foreign interest in continued support.

Andrew Toppan <actop...@gwi.net> wrote in message

> "Rune Aasgaard" <rune.aasga...@online.no> wrote:
[snip]
> >is new to me is that there is also said that there are plans for
> >rebuilding the current AEGIS ships with another radar system,

> There are no such plans.  Replacing AEGIS with anything else would be
> prohibitively expensive, and very stupid (since we're going to be building
> AEGIS ships for another 8 years...)

<tascho...@starpower.invalid> wrote:

>Andrew Toppan <actop...@gwi.net> wrote in message
>news:7otajscj4msp9djana1qoarctj9u9op10d@4ax.com...
>> "Rune Aasgaard" <rune.aasga...@online.no> wrote:
>[snip]
>> >is new to me is that there is also said that there are plans for
>> >rebuilding the current AEGIS ships with another radar system,

>> There are no such plans.  Replacing AEGIS with anything else would be
>> prohibitively expensive, and very stupid (since we're going to be building
>> AEGIS ships for another 8 years...)

>There might be a kernel of truth here.  The Cruiser Conversion plan calls
>for a very few AEGIS cruisers (something like 4-6 ships) to get a new radar
>suite to support the Navy Theater-Wide Block II

>that's a very small number of ships and a very speculative plan at this
>point.  The vast majority of the AEGIS fleet will keep SPY-1 for their whole
>service lives.

DeepSea wrote:
> Brian V wrote in message <39387A7F.FDEC8...@usadotnet.junkmailkill.ru>...

> >> I wonder what they think a TAS 23 clone is going to do for them that SPY
> in
> >> sector search won't.?

> >Controlling another separate weapons system? Frequency diversity? I know
> that
> >on the Spru's and AOR/E's the TAS MK-23 feeds only into NSSMS.

> As I recall, the Mk-23/SeaChicken pair are the primary deffensive AAW
> armament for the AOR/E and Spruances (before CIWS). The AEGIS platforms (US
> don't use SeaChicken, instead they use the Standards, guided by SPY/SPG,
> with Phalanx for PD. Do the Kongo's have three AAW systems, or did they skip
> the PD gun?

Robert Csillag wrote:

> You could rotate the prop if you had to with the turning gear though the
> "Jack" was tagged out when drydocking the ship to prevent injury to divers
> and shipyard workers. Also, I don't recall a drydock position for my sub's
> prop. What difference would it make? The lower part of the rudder extends
> many feet below the prop. When going into #2 drydock in PNSY in Kittery,
> Maine, we had to trim the ship so that the back end floated as high as
> possible so that the rudder would clear a large rock at the entrance. We
> also had to do it at high tide (2:00 AM).

Mark Borgerson <m...@oes.to> wrote:
>What do those Mainiacs have against divers and dynamite??

Andrew Toppan wrote in message

>"Robert Csillag" <rcsil...@gpu.com> wrote:

>indicated on the shaft, because a rotational position reference is useful
or
>necessary at times.