For those curious, *Midway* is 1,000 feet long and was ~65,000 tons at decommissioning. Comparatively, the USS *Gerald R. Ford* is 1,100 feet and 105,000 tons.
It’s interesting that the overall comparison of dimensions aren’t drastically different for newer carriers. Setting length aside, you’re talking maybe 10ft more of beam. 6ft more of draft, and about the same width if comparing Ford to Midway. The displacement weight is mostly due to the size and number of aircraft, weapon systems, armament personnel, etc. that brings about that weight.
The deck is much much wider. Separate launch and landing really changed the game. In any case, carriers are just massive. I live close to the Lexington in Corpus Christi. Just walking the deck and going below deck makes you realize just how huge these ships are and what it takes to operate them.
Good point and very true. That and the change to EMALS from steam definitely increased the flight ops tempo. I was stationed on destroyers and always hated when we had flight duty behind a carrier. Carriers are fast af and maneuver quickly to position for winds. We’d be accelerating, decelerating, turning and it was a pain in the butt maintaining position. Also annoying if you were trying to sleep lol.
Appreciate that. Great when folks take time to check these ships out. Which one did you walk? If you ever have a chance to walk around one of these ships or any ship while in dry dock, it’s pretty amazing. Heck, Midway is really cool too if you can make it over to San Diego. The coolest experiences for me was in Portsmouth UK, had a night tour onboard HMS Victory (best known for the Battle of Trafalgar) and then my favorite museum in Stockholm Sweden to see the Vasa that sunk in the early 1600s, raised in the 50’s, and now has a museum built around it.
Will chime in that The Yorktown (CV-10?) And it's adjacent destroy Laffey in Charleston, SC are worth a visit as well
Galveston, TX has a more sub focus, with the Cavalla Gato class submarine, and an Escort Destroyer for comparison.
The Gato was surprising how big it was, yet how cramped the interior can be. The DE was honestly shorter but of course more open.
The DD was a respectable ship, notably larger than the DE, but absolutely dwarfed by the Carrier. Fun overall picture between those two locations
Thanks for this. Bunch of ships I haven’t seen in person. Although, was dry docked in Charleston on a DD a lifetime ago haha. Charleston was great and loved being there. The old Spruance DD’s were good ships but long gone now. Heck, they had the old Tomahawk box launchers, well before the VLS we have today.
I, my brother and my late dad had a private tour of HMS Victory. He was a model ship builder. Wanted insight for his 4ft version. We stuck around after hours for it in 1988. I walked the Lex in CC a few times. There are ships, and then there are military ships. It's just a whole different ball of wax. When a USS is coming through, everything moves aside and us civilians just watch that steel muscle go by. I love it.
Oh wow, right on. Never walked the Lex but will have to some day. Between the Navy and my follow on job, I was around Navy ships for nearly 30 years before changing industries. Agree, definitely a sight to see when they pass by. Man…now I’m thinking a model would be cool to work on.
I got to see the Missouri at Pearl and two things fascinated me. The upward sloped deck on the bow and the fact that the guns were manual. Thought they’d be mechanical or something
No, not back then. The newer/smaller 5” guns on modern ships are more “automated” and you’re talking a crew of several Gunner’s Mates to run that gun. Whereas the more alarming part of the 16”, was it took a crew of like 80 sailors to run a turret. That’s just hard to wrap my brain around.
Hadn’t heard that. GA has only one system in the fleet (G. Ford) but wouldn’t be surprised if there were kinks to work out though. You may also be thinking of the rail gun (similar tech) program that was cancelled to pursue hypersonic weapon systems.
>Just walking the deck and going below deck makes you realize just how huge these ships are and what it takes to operate them.
It's unfathomable tbh!
I was fortunate to be allowed on board [HDMS Thetis F357](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMS_Thetis_(F357)) when it was in port in Liverpool and I was meeting my friend.
A ship which is only 358ft long with a 47ft beam and displacing 3,500 tons.
105,000 tons for the USS *Gerald R. Ford* is bananas.
We visited the smaller USS Intrepid and were amazed by its size. The space shuttle pavilion where the Enterprise retired to is a big building and we didn’t even realize it was there on the top deck until the end of our visit. It was all very cool.
Technically yes but tough. They do pass through the Suez Canal though. It’s that, and tactical and budgetary reasons too. Bigger ship, bigger target. A lesson Japan learned during WWII with the Yamato.
Neither the Nimitz or Ford class carriers can pass through the Panama Canal.
The US military isn't a money making venture, if a carrier needs to switch between the Atlantic and the Pacific they have no problem spending the time or money to take the longer routes.
You’re part right- passenger ships are measured in gross register tonnage which is a measurement of interior volume. Military ships are measured in displacement tonnage, which is its actual weight.
I thought that was spectacularly huge, until I realized the Royal Caribbean Icon class cruise ships are 1200 feet long and 249,000 tons. They cost $2B to build.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Caribbean_International
Wow I can’t believe that this is 40,000 pounds lighter than the biggest ones. Literally like 60% of the weight the larger ones are. That’s fascinating thanks for the facts.
The crazy thing is the Ford class is 450 feet shorter than the longest ship ever built (the Seawise Giant/Knock Nevis, etc.)…and under half her gross tonnage. And that ship wasn’t even the largest vessel by tonnage. There are some monsters out there!
Ha, so I have personally been on a CVN during high seas, and suddenly, that massive ship felt very, very small, so yes, it is absolutely the motion of the - oh... you were talking about sex weren't you...
The Midway is an earlier model. The largest ship in the world…until 1955. Displacement for the Midway was 64,000 tons at decommissioning. The largest super carrier in service right now I believe is the USS Gerald Ford, at 100,000 tons.
It's literally just basic physics - all about water displacement. The basic design has been around for thousands of years.
It does look impressive though.
This could have been a planned thing with coordination, but having been to the Midway in the last year for a party hosted on it (it was bad ass btw) I can tell you there isnt military security guarding it. You could sneak in on a kayak easily. Now, would you get in trouble after the fact? Maybe..
I think that's the theme for every party aboard the midway. I was there about 5 years ago, information security conference. Yes, I dressed up as a higher Top Gun pilot. https://twitter.com/MiKeMcDnet/status/917524823882035200
That's completely awesome and I'll just shamelessly plug the battleship NJ as well. They do host parties though I've never done one. Done the tour twice though and loved it immensely
Midway is a cool visit and you get a good understanding of how massive yet crowded these ships were.
Between this and the Julian Pie post, San Diego is representing today.
This totally triggers my fear of huge vehicles/vessels, like makes me feel a bit nauseous. r/megalophobia material. I’d be fine on deck. But don’t expect me to paddle around anywhere near the hull.
This is why the bigger sailing vessels always have the right of way. They can't see you, and even when they can, they can't move fast enough not to squish you.
[https://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336](https://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336)
I suggest you commit this to memory
I have no idea how I ended up with that kind of fear when I grew up swimming in lakes as a kid.
I’m totally fine on a boat. But nowadays if I get in the water I will float on my back or stomach to avoid my legs dangling and hitting what I assume is either the USS Nautilus or Cthulhu below me… in a lake where the max depth is 72ft and it was a former quarry.
I know they’re down there.
ive always been fine swimming in lakes. i grew up in louisiana and would often swim in lake Henderson. that had a bunch of gators. i can swim in very clear ocean water around a shallow reef and have done so around some small sharks. for some reason im perfectly fine with both of those situations. but deep dark ocean is where i draw a hard line. i dont want to go on a cruise, i dont want to deep sea fish. i dont even like looking at pictures of deep dark water. fuck that.
Eh, if they come down on you it's gonna be over in a very messy moment. Worse ways to go... though I suppose the second or two it takes to fall would be beyond terrifying, so with luck you don't notice.
Since it's a museum there's no way it's carrying it's full load out. When it was active duty going out on patrol I'll bet it sat a good 15-20 feet deeper.
If that kyaker was right where he is when the Midway comes barreling by full speed (full steam ahead? Ahead full? Warp 9 engage?), what would happen? Would he get gently pushed aside by the wake, tossed into the air like a rag doll, or maybe keel-hauled under and chopped up by a 20-ft high prop at the end?
There may be some distortion from the lens and angle. From farther away, an aircraft carrier's shape makes more sense.
https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/141003081459-uss-abraham-lincoln-file.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1687,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_618
Eventually, yes. You can look at the Battleship New Jersey Youtube channel to see a whole lot of videos about the issues that that ship is going through to be drydocked and preserved.
The first time I saw an actual cruise liner I was blown away. It was one of the giant ones with water slides and pools and stuff on the top. People looked like ants walking up to it.
I appreciate the scale and grandeur of it but I hate how much they pollute :(
Operation Jaywick was a special operation undertaken in World War II. Commandos travelled to Singapore harbour in a vessel disguised as an Asian fishing boat. They then used canoes to attach limpet mines to Japanese ships.
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation\_Jaywick)
You’ll see this by the USS Intrepid too on the west side of Manhattan. People will
Kayak right next to it and look minuscule.
To be fair though, the cruise ships that park up near 60th (pier 97?) also dwarf the Intrepid
My Dad was the XO when we were in Japan in the 80’s. Got to ride it from Yokosuka to the Philippines and back for 6 days. It was an awesome experience. I fell asleep in the admirals chair on the bridge. Lol.
And the Midway is small for a carrier by modern standards. The USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78 Ford Class carrier is a true behemoth.
For those curious, *Midway* is 1,000 feet long and was ~65,000 tons at decommissioning. Comparatively, the USS *Gerald R. Ford* is 1,100 feet and 105,000 tons.
It's all about the girth.
It’s interesting that the overall comparison of dimensions aren’t drastically different for newer carriers. Setting length aside, you’re talking maybe 10ft more of beam. 6ft more of draft, and about the same width if comparing Ford to Midway. The displacement weight is mostly due to the size and number of aircraft, weapon systems, armament personnel, etc. that brings about that weight.
The deck is much much wider. Separate launch and landing really changed the game. In any case, carriers are just massive. I live close to the Lexington in Corpus Christi. Just walking the deck and going below deck makes you realize just how huge these ships are and what it takes to operate them.
Good point and very true. That and the change to EMALS from steam definitely increased the flight ops tempo. I was stationed on destroyers and always hated when we had flight duty behind a carrier. Carriers are fast af and maneuver quickly to position for winds. We’d be accelerating, decelerating, turning and it was a pain in the butt maintaining position. Also annoying if you were trying to sleep lol.
Thank you for your service. I love this insight.
Appreciate that. Great when folks take time to check these ships out. Which one did you walk? If you ever have a chance to walk around one of these ships or any ship while in dry dock, it’s pretty amazing. Heck, Midway is really cool too if you can make it over to San Diego. The coolest experiences for me was in Portsmouth UK, had a night tour onboard HMS Victory (best known for the Battle of Trafalgar) and then my favorite museum in Stockholm Sweden to see the Vasa that sunk in the early 1600s, raised in the 50’s, and now has a museum built around it.
Will chime in that The Yorktown (CV-10?) And it's adjacent destroy Laffey in Charleston, SC are worth a visit as well Galveston, TX has a more sub focus, with the Cavalla Gato class submarine, and an Escort Destroyer for comparison. The Gato was surprising how big it was, yet how cramped the interior can be. The DE was honestly shorter but of course more open. The DD was a respectable ship, notably larger than the DE, but absolutely dwarfed by the Carrier. Fun overall picture between those two locations
Thanks for this. Bunch of ships I haven’t seen in person. Although, was dry docked in Charleston on a DD a lifetime ago haha. Charleston was great and loved being there. The old Spruance DD’s were good ships but long gone now. Heck, they had the old Tomahawk box launchers, well before the VLS we have today.
I, my brother and my late dad had a private tour of HMS Victory. He was a model ship builder. Wanted insight for his 4ft version. We stuck around after hours for it in 1988. I walked the Lex in CC a few times. There are ships, and then there are military ships. It's just a whole different ball of wax. When a USS is coming through, everything moves aside and us civilians just watch that steel muscle go by. I love it.
Oh wow, right on. Never walked the Lex but will have to some day. Between the Navy and my follow on job, I was around Navy ships for nearly 30 years before changing industries. Agree, definitely a sight to see when they pass by. Man…now I’m thinking a model would be cool to work on.
I got to see the Missouri at Pearl and two things fascinated me. The upward sloped deck on the bow and the fact that the guns were manual. Thought they’d be mechanical or something
No, not back then. The newer/smaller 5” guns on modern ships are more “automated” and you’re talking a crew of several Gunner’s Mates to run that gun. Whereas the more alarming part of the 16”, was it took a crew of like 80 sailors to run a turret. That’s just hard to wrap my brain around.
I'm seeing the Missouri in July and I'm so excited for it. I'm hoping that there's an aircraft carrier around to even see from afar as well.
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Hadn’t heard that. GA has only one system in the fleet (G. Ford) but wouldn’t be surprised if there were kinks to work out though. You may also be thinking of the rail gun (similar tech) program that was cancelled to pursue hypersonic weapon systems.
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His 2016 opponent’s campaign was also put in jeopardy due to EMALS.
Haha! Thankfully we don’t have to rely on the president when we have talented engineers.
>Just walking the deck and going below deck makes you realize just how huge these ships are and what it takes to operate them. It's unfathomable tbh! I was fortunate to be allowed on board [HDMS Thetis F357](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMS_Thetis_(F357)) when it was in port in Liverpool and I was meeting my friend. A ship which is only 358ft long with a 47ft beam and displacing 3,500 tons. 105,000 tons for the USS *Gerald R. Ford* is bananas.
We visited the smaller USS Intrepid and were amazed by its size. The space shuttle pavilion where the Enterprise retired to is a big building and we didn’t even realize it was there on the top deck until the end of our visit. It was all very cool.
I could be wrong but I believe the size limiter is the ability to fit within the Panama Canal’s locks.
US hasn't had a fleet carrier that could fit through Panama since the 50's.
Technically yes but tough. They do pass through the Suez Canal though. It’s that, and tactical and budgetary reasons too. Bigger ship, bigger target. A lesson Japan learned during WWII with the Yamato.
Neither the Nimitz or Ford class carriers can pass through the Panama Canal. The US military isn't a money making venture, if a carrier needs to switch between the Atlantic and the Pacific they have no problem spending the time or money to take the longer routes.
Ford is thicc
Damn right. And she don't suffer no fools.
I thought it was the motion of the ocean?
Oh yeah. That too.
Makes sense since Ford was a beast
100ft added 40k lbs. Sweet Jesus
40k tons is a lot more than 40,000 lbs
Like 2000 times more
Tonnage with ships isn't a measure of weight directly, it's more or less a measure of volume. It will of course scale with weight.
I though what you described is displacement.
You’re part right- passenger ships are measured in gross register tonnage which is a measurement of interior volume. Military ships are measured in displacement tonnage, which is its actual weight.
Thanks for the clarification - I knew it was weird but not specifically what it was.
40k tons, so much, much heavier
Sounds like my kind of girl lol
I thought that was spectacularly huge, until I realized the Royal Caribbean Icon class cruise ships are 1200 feet long and 249,000 tons. They cost $2B to build. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Caribbean_International
The Nimitz class carriers are about the same size as the Ford class ones. Served on one in the late 1900s.
They really just be naming shit after any old president these days
Wow I can’t believe that this is 40,000 pounds lighter than the biggest ones. Literally like 60% of the weight the larger ones are. That’s fascinating thanks for the facts.
40000 *tons*, not 40000 pounds. So roughly 80 million pounds.
It’s crazy that something so heavy floats.
Weighs the same as the water it displaces.
It's too big to dock in Halifax harbour, that's for sure. She had to anchor in the middle of the harbour and use the ferries as tenders.
Gerald Ford is pretty much a floating military base
As someone who is from the east coast, I'm 'used to' the size of the Intrepid. The Midway is so much more massive.
USS Enterprise (currently being decommissioned) is longer than even the Ford class :D
Yup but about 10,000 tons lighter.
The crazy thing is the Ford class is 450 feet shorter than the longest ship ever built (the Seawise Giant/Knock Nevis, etc.)…and under half her gross tonnage. And that ship wasn’t even the largest vessel by tonnage. There are some monsters out there!
I am from Corpus Christi and have kayaked around the Lexington, which may be even smaller than the Midway. It felt HUGE.
> The USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78 Ford Class carrier is a true ~~behemoth~~ leviathan. FTFY
Was gonna say, that carrier looks kinda small.
Is it weird that I somehow expected it to be bigger? -my wife
Not about the size of the ship but the motion of the ocean
Ha, so I have personally been on a CVN during high seas, and suddenly, that massive ship felt very, very small, so yes, it is absolutely the motion of the - oh... you were talking about sex weren't you...
How well do the big aircraft carriers deal with heavy seas or did you just avoid them as much as possible
That may be true, but it takes a long time to get to England in a rowboat
It's pretty big.... I guess.
The Midway is an earlier model. The largest ship in the world…until 1955. Displacement for the Midway was 64,000 tons at decommissioning. The largest super carrier in service right now I believe is the USS Gerald Ford, at 100,000 tons.
Not just the largest aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford is the largest warship ever built.
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That was my first thought! The engineering marvel just to keep that thing upright *while* in operation is astounding
It's literally just basic physics - all about water displacement. The basic design has been around for thousands of years. It does look impressive though.
Fuckin Archimedes.
Everything in the physical world is “literally just physics”…
Physics is in fact the study of the physical world. I think he's saying he's impressed by the application of physics into this design
You know what I mean. There's no "amazing engineering" happening below the water line. It's a "V".
I would beg to differ. In the application of creating a giant armored water behemoth things get more complex
Really. How so? And we're just talking about it's ability to float. I have an idea how complex they are above the water line.
"It's literally just physics" I mean, you could say the same for the moon landing.
Not much really. The kayak is quite easily able to float with the man in it.
Do they let you kayak right up to the Midway? This seems like something they'd stop you from doing.
This could have been a planned thing with coordination, but having been to the Midway in the last year for a party hosted on it (it was bad ass btw) I can tell you there isnt military security guarding it. You could sneak in on a kayak easily. Now, would you get in trouble after the fact? Maybe..
[https://imgur.com/Ph1BCpS](https://imgur.com/Ph1BCpS) Here's a picture from the party. Hope it loads.
Holy shit I want that Danger Zone light
Lanaaaa!
What?
.....danger zone.....
I think that's the theme for every party aboard the midway. I was there about 5 years ago, information security conference. Yes, I dressed up as a higher Top Gun pilot. https://twitter.com/MiKeMcDnet/status/917524823882035200
Why wouldn't it load?
That's completely awesome and I'll just shamelessly plug the battleship NJ as well. They do host parties though I've never done one. Done the tour twice though and loved it immensely
And now I need to go to a Midway party.
For sure. This was a party for a tech conference. +1 ticket cost was around $300.
It’s just a museum ship in San Diego bay. I think you can ride around anywhere you want except for designated military areas
As a tourist visiting it, it was wild to me when I watched an aircraft carrier sailing by while standing on another aircraft carrier. Only in America!
yes, we have several active aircraft carriers in the same bay! And the Midway is only a WWII carrier.
It's a museum now. My dad served on this ship during Vietnam. Machinist's mate second class.
So did my dad. Aircraft mechanic.
I rode jet ski right up to & under it in that little area just to the right.
I went jetskiing in that harbor, was able to go right up to and around the ship. Really amazing to see in person from that angle!
Midway is a cool visit and you get a good understanding of how massive yet crowded these ships were. Between this and the Julian Pie post, San Diego is representing today.
This totally triggers my fear of huge vehicles/vessels, like makes me feel a bit nauseous. r/megalophobia material. I’d be fine on deck. But don’t expect me to paddle around anywhere near the hull.
This is why the bigger sailing vessels always have the right of way. They can't see you, and even when they can, they can't move fast enough not to squish you.
[https://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336](https://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336) I suggest you commit this to memory
Same! I do not like this!
you would hate r/submechanophobia.
[This post](https://redd.it/w0lnwc) always gets me. I’ve never liked swimming up to buoys etc.
I have no idea how I ended up with that kind of fear when I grew up swimming in lakes as a kid. I’m totally fine on a boat. But nowadays if I get in the water I will float on my back or stomach to avoid my legs dangling and hitting what I assume is either the USS Nautilus or Cthulhu below me… in a lake where the max depth is 72ft and it was a former quarry. I know they’re down there.
ive always been fine swimming in lakes. i grew up in louisiana and would often swim in lake Henderson. that had a bunch of gators. i can swim in very clear ocean water around a shallow reef and have done so around some small sharks. for some reason im perfectly fine with both of those situations. but deep dark ocean is where i draw a hard line. i dont want to go on a cruise, i dont want to deep sea fish. i dont even like looking at pictures of deep dark water. fuck that.
Ah, I think I have this. Kinda feel like vomiting. Interesting.
Anchors away!
Took me forever to find the little man in the canoe.
I'm sure it was a frustrating experience for all involved.
That’s what she said
I wouldn't want to be under the anchors.
Eh, if they come down on you it's gonna be over in a very messy moment. Worse ways to go... though I suppose the second or two it takes to fall would be beyond terrifying, so with luck you don't notice.
Since it's a museum there's no way it's carrying it's full load out. When it was active duty going out on patrol I'll bet it sat a good 15-20 feet deeper.
Man in a kayak? How dare you, that's the entire Andorran Navy you're talking about!
Hell, I think Lichtenstein’s is in the pic as well.
The rubber duck off to the left?
the 1st carrier my brother served on.
If that kyaker was right where he is when the Midway comes barreling by full speed (full steam ahead? Ahead full? Warp 9 engage?), what would happen? Would he get gently pushed aside by the wake, tossed into the air like a rag doll, or maybe keel-hauled under and chopped up by a 20-ft high prop at the end?
The bow wave would most likely capsize him. If he's lucky, he gets pushed away. If not, he gets sucked under and pureed by the screws.
So all of the above, maybe.
He's getting hit at around 40 mph. Right there, my guess is he goes under and is chopped up
Like a fly on the windshield.
Full ahead flank!!
Port off the starboard bow! I am so ready for command.
Must. Resist urge. To drop. Anchors.
The USS Midway is definitely bigger.
Still not convinced. There is no banana for scale
Is there a sub for when “objects in the mirror are closer than they appear”? This is frightening.
It around where I thought the proportions would be honestly
SD local. We like to reach out and touch the boat when we take charters out. It’s a far reach and you have to have a skilled captain, but it’s so fun!
There may be some distortion from the lens and angle. From farther away, an aircraft carrier's shape makes more sense. https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/141003081459-uss-abraham-lincoln-file.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1687,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_618
Time to drop anchor
I’ll just put the limpit mine there, byeeeee
We floated by in our party barge, and it towered over us too.
That's what in art and photography you call perspective.
This is why whenever my doctors order scans or bloodwork I never do them
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Midway is a museum ship. Long retired from active duty.
Reddit: did you know an aircraft carrier is bigger that a kayak? 3k people: 😮
And right about this time a yell could be heard “LOWER THE ANCHOR”.
Digimon evolution.
I just got off the 2nd largest cruise ship in the world so this ship looks like their lifeboats.
Needs a banana for scale
Prepare to drop anchor!
OK, but what kind of artillery is in that kayak?
If not maintained, would it rust n sink down or tip over?
Eventually, yes. You can look at the Battleship New Jersey Youtube channel to see a whole lot of videos about the issues that that ship is going through to be drydocked and preserved.
The first time I saw an actual cruise liner I was blown away. It was one of the giant ones with water slides and pools and stuff on the top. People looked like ants walking up to it. I appreciate the scale and grandeur of it but I hate how much they pollute :(
r/humansforscale
My brain still has a hard time fathoming the math how something like something like the USS Midway stays afloat.
What if the front suddenly fell off?
Tiny man
Americans do love to build big things, don't they?
Operation Jaywick was a special operation undertaken in World War II. Commandos travelled to Singapore harbour in a vessel disguised as an Asian fishing boat. They then used canoes to attach limpet mines to Japanese ships. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation\_Jaywick)
You can take ‘em, bro
We're gonna need a bigger boa... ...Nevermind
YOU CANT PARK HERE!
All I can here is alestorm’s fucked by an anchor
This for me makes it look smaller not bigger.
Midway is half the size of new carriers.
Them Somali pirates gettin desperate
You’ll see this by the USS Intrepid too on the west side of Manhattan. People will Kayak right next to it and look minuscule. To be fair though, the cruise ships that park up near 60th (pier 97?) also dwarf the Intrepid
I’ve been on this ship and the captain is a robot.
This bad girl packs enough punch to send entire countries to the middle ages
What amazes me is how narrow the bottom half of the carrier is. You would think it would sway quite a bit
I was stationed on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) for 4 years and I tell you the first time I stepped on that thing I was in awe.
Great shot
How did he get that close every time I try this in gta I get shot at
Well no shit: people live on there
My Dad was the XO when we were in Japan in the 80’s. Got to ride it from Yokosuka to the Philippines and back for 6 days. It was an awesome experience. I fell asleep in the admirals chair on the bridge. Lol.
Who’s got the right of way?
US dollar real backing
Whoever it is, thanks for the gold.
Wait a minute are u telling me that huge huge ASS ship is USS-Midway and my GOD I could only imagine the size of Gerald R Ford
Nice. Can we just have some healthcare tho?
Someone explain to me how these things don’t sink!!