Dear Americans
Please fricking explain yourselves. What the frick is this thing and why is it off the coast of my country?
Oblique references to a 90's movie featuring Kevin Costner is not a fricking answer.
Dear Americans
Please fricking explain yourselves. What the frick is this thing and why is it off the coast of my country?
Oblique references to a 90's movie featuring Kevin Costner is not a fricking answer.
It's where we store all the eggs. It's time for your meal
I dont buy it. There arent any Marines anywhere near us. There is no need to send eggs.
>There arent any Marines anywhere near us
Not yet
Marines don't eat eggs. They eat crayons. That's why America needs so much oil, to make the crayons because they're afraid of hungry marines.
what happens when the marines go home?
they eat the semen green berrets left on their wife's pussy
Wrong
you HAVE to eat all the eggs
you HAVE to fire all the AT4s
Anon...
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2022/08/22/marines-sailors-ate-all-of-greek-towns-eggs-meat-on-port-visit/
>Marines and sailors visiting the northeastern military port city of Alexandroupoli, Greece, put their appetites to work this past May, as reported by the outlet Greek Reporter in July and later by Task & Purpose, overwhelming local business owners.
>“Yesterday, 1,500 people had breakfast in Alexandroupolis and ate eggs, sausages and bacon,” said restaurant owner Giorgos Alavantas, according to Greek City Times. “Yesterday, 6,000–7,000 eggs were needed. In other words, we don’t have eggs.”
>Another restaurant owner, Vassilis Siklafidis, told the outlet, “They have gone crazy. They keep telling us that they haven’t eaten nicer meat.”
Greece owes me some reparations after all the damages that've just been caused to my sides
Picking up your mom.
If thats the case, I hope you haven't sent anyone you want back.
Why wouldn't it be off the coast of your country? If you knew what they knew maybe you would be too ever think of that?
Looks like an Egyptian spy ship to me.
t. Israeli
Quick question,
Let's say I was to attack a ship at sea. What are the tactical advantages of arming unmarked airplanes with napalm? Hypothetically, of course.
It's seeking peace and then keeping it. There is nothing for you to worry about anon. They're only interested in peace. There must be some peace around and they're gonna be all over that. It's fine.
>There arent any Marines anywhere near us
Nowhere on Earth is more than 4 hours away from the US Marines storming your beach. Even if you're landlocked.
>Nowhere on Earth is more than 4 hours away from the US Marines storming your beach.
>We have no beach
>The seebeas make a beach, which is then stormed
>Within 4 hours
US amphibious landing in Inner Mongolia incoming.
Look, they'll find a river, lake, or overly large puddle if they have to. Traditions must be upheld.
>he doesn't know about the 53rd Mechanized Beach Brigade
when needed the beach is always brought with them
storm my beach b***h, ill give you 5 hours
>no stormin yo mama joke yet
dead board
storm ya mudda
I don't believe you're in the Congo.
Serious answer: those things are cheapie ships meant to support civilian missions (humanitarian relief etc) and do low intensity stuff, help vs piracy or specops, clear mines, all sorts of random tasks that the Navy doesn't want to devote an expensive high value ship for amphibious war or surface combat to. They could just be training or passing through or doing a bunch of small jobs but it's not a sign of something major, quite the opposite. They're evolutions of expedition transfer docks literally based on oil tanker hulls.
You'd know shit had actually hit the fan if it was an actual amphibious assault ship like a Wasp-class, which other countries consider to be actual aircraft carriers.
these are an evolution of the Sea Control Ship concept right?
Basically a not-carrier for stuff like escorting.
The other thing that came out from the concept I think would be the Amphibious Assault Ships.
No, a modern version of the sea control ship would probably be something closer to the USS America (i.e. Amphib with no well deck). These are for really low intensity areas (and they can't launch F-35Bs because of the forward hangar). You're not controlling the sea with one of these against any kind of real military opponent.
So it's more of a branch off of the concept
"Sea control ship but cheaper and for purely logistics"
>and they can't launch F-35Bs because of the forward hangar
They can't launch F-35Bs because the deck isn't rated for the heat that would be exhausted from the STOVL exhaust.
If you didn't give a shit about the deck long term I'm sure you could land an F-35B and take off (though with a limited load compared to a normal carrier or amphib ship) Especially if you take off at a diagonal across the main deck (avoiding the hanger). You get less distance, but I think it'd work out if you really wanted to.
There's nothing wrong with VTOing an F35B, just you'd get maybe 2-300nm combat radius out of it which isn't too terrible
Sea Control Ship refers to light carriers, preferably in the 10-20,000T range, built in large numbers. Basically, a modern equivalent to the CVE of WWII fame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Control_Ship
The USN has been looking at SCS designs off and on for literally 50 years (and before then, it had a whole bunch of refitted ~30,000T Essex-class carriers that could perform the role). However, SCS just doesn't mesh well with USN requirements; the optimal number of aircraft on a carrier is ~90, not 10-20. SCS can be in more places at once for the same amount of money, but they can't come anywhere close to the same firepower/sortie rate for the same money.
ESB is a different concept: the "sea base". This is an even more nebulous concept than the SCS designs, and it has varied over time as different technologies and budget environments have come about. There was a big push for the idea back in the '90s, when nobody knew where the next war would be, but everybody assumed that it would be Saddam-II (not necessarily Iraq, but someone who had learned from Saddam's mistakes). Thus, lots of crazy ideas were floated about to try and improve upon the several months that Desert Shield had needed to get forces into theater (not to mention the friendly ports and airfields and other infrastructure).
Here are a couple things that came out of that time period:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_offshore_base
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pelican
Also, the US Army's FCS program was a result of the same issues. There were even crazier ideas, like large, fast airships with global range, capable of carrying whole companies of motorized infantry.
Of course, none of that stuff made it into service, and most of it never even left the drawing board. Cheaper solutions had to be found, and your visitor happens to be one of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expeditionary_Transfer_Dock
so they're just odd-jobs ships? seems reasonable
Is the US so powerful that even them sending their J team amphibs off the coast is enough to throw irrelevant shitholes into a panic?
It's just a fun little thread about anon waking up and seeing a big ship outside his window and wondering wtf it's doing there. Looks like they're just trying to help/assist the local government w/support. No need to call him names.
They're small only to the US. To everyone else that's a mechanized brigade+ of top shelf equipment and plenty of ammo just hanging over their head like the guillotine of God
>What the frick is this thing
It's a boat.
>and why is it off the coast of my country?
It sailed there lol.
It's the ice cream barge. In two weeks you will have your first western transgender and a proper McDonald's in your capital.
MGSV home base but mobile
Implying I could find your shithole country on a map.
t. American
It's kinda wild how every time the Japanese poke fun at Americans they just love it instead.
I think it's because it's mostly good natured ribbing. The Japanese are massive ameriboos, plus we're easy to make fun of, can take a joke and like to make fun of ourselves too. Anytime I need a spirit boost on a long road trip I stop into a Flying J or a Love's truckstop and walk through the store to remind myself that people buy this stuff unironically. I love this country.
what are the chances that guy running to the restroom is going to shit spray the walls and bowl then come out like he dindu nuffin and buy a coffee and stale donut
99%
>Former gas station employee
I'd still like to know what that vile solid grey goop was that some girl vomited up enough of to completely fill a sink one night. It has haunted me for years.
It's a cute thing. Come here psspsspss
>good natured ribbing
It's pretty easy to tell the difference between people who hate you trying to denigrate and devalue your contributions to the world to justify horrible acts against you, and some good old-fashioned shitposting.
The irony being that most of the countries that promote the denigrating and dehumanizing are """US allies""" while most of the countries that do the shitposting are people we've invaded before.
So, you're saying we just need to invade them as well and they'll stick to the shitposting?
God, I wish
While we may have fought and nuked the Japanese, we also spent a lot of time and money helping them fix everything after they surrendered, which is a good way to get people on your side
Me on the left striding into the bathroom to drop the nastiest load you've ever seen, smelled or felt the metaphysical aura of in the Love's off the I-44 in Newcastle, Oklahoma
Because the American caricature that they always use is usually a nicer depiction than if they were accurate
Except Afghanistan
>What the frick is this thing
Logistics ship. Makes doing pretty much everything easier, really.
>and why is it off the coast of my country?
Logistics reasons. We've got our fingers in a lot of pies, after all. Which country is yours?
>Which country is yours?
>quads noted
>No reply from third world homosexual
it's a floating operations base, supporting either a squad at sea or a mainland FOB. Carries supplies and whatnot, has a couple of cargo copters etc etc
You’re about to get a delivery of freedom anon…
I wouldn't worry about it.
Something about nodules?
Yeah bro, it's just doing research and shit, I don't think it's a big deal.
I hunt doves with a guy thet worked on this ship.
Still can't imagine even trying to drill down 3+ miles deep, dealing with absurd pressures, to grab a submarine and try to retrieve it.
I'm reading The Taking of K-129 and it's hilarious.
>Yeah, three of the [REDACTED] SOSUS piggyback missions detected this thing going down.
>As you can see from the data, we get the first pop here, initial explosion.
>But no second pop.
>Meaning, this thing didn't explode when it hit crush depth.
>Meaning, if we can find and get to this thing, we could have the greatest intel haul imaginable.
>Yeah, we confirmed it with the USS Halibut, a spare(!) nuclear missile sub.
>Huh? Oh yeah, we retrofitted that thing with the most powerful computer we could cram into it, and packed it to the gills with weaponised autists. Frankly, we've yet to find a limit on what this thing can do.
Later, some of the finest minds of a generation work out how to get several thousand tons of steel, seawater, and communism out from under 3.6 (not great, not terrible) miles of water.
In the open ocean.
Without anyone noticing.
The book goes into more detail, but "just deadlift it with a giant claw, LMAO" was one of the less wacky options.
In a word, rockets.
I don't know what manganese nodules have to do with anything
CIA boondoggle. Those dumbasses dropped the sub.
i used to see that thing every morning when i drove to work back when it was moored in suisun bay
Poor man's helicopter carrier. It's basically a cargo ship with an exposed cargo/assorted crap deck near the water for easy access to the ocean, a flight deck on top with enough space for a bunch of helicopters, and a hangar for storing and maintaini those helicopters.
They're big ships which can haul around a bunch of crap and can also use helicopters and smaller boats to transport that crap to nearby places where it's needed. Good for supporting special forces in the middle of bumfrick nowhere without devoting a real military asset to it. Quite cheap too compared to most military ships, especially given that they the displacement of an aircraft carrier when loaded.
so like a floating FOB or something?
Yes, but with less dedicated command/control infrastructure.
In my head I was making a comparison of a FOB and a MOB, but understood that these ships are more for resupply more than having any troops and the like.
Still though, thanks for the clarification.
A bit? There aren't actually that many personnel on an ESB (~250) but in terms of being a big floating hub which is near the "action", yeah.
"Action" being limited to shit like terrorists, pirates, humanitarian operations because these are slow, large, and mostly defenseless.
These exist to keep actual carriers and amphibs from being wasted on that crap.
Is where we store the wiener Unsucker
If America had the technology to unsuck a wiener they'd have used it by now.
the bigger thing is that it's the fricking navy, there is no wiener unsucker
We can't use it, it's way out in the ocean.
It’s a copy of the wiener Resucker that was found on the dark side of the moon
They call me Ford Lincoln Mercury, on account of me wanting to drive cars. But I realize now that that's kid stuff. I wanna be a postman.
I love The Postman. One of the all time so bad it'a good movies.
There's nothing bad about it. It's just an excellent movie. When I was 11, I rented it on VHS... Watched it back to back for four days straight and returned it late. It is my all time favorite movie and I can quote it near verbatim.
>It's just an excellent movie
Anon...
Watch it as an adult with the nostalgia goggles off. It's ridiculous. I love it too but a good movie it is not.
Some people genuinely don't know the difference between a good movie and a fun movie.
there are plenty of bad movies that are fun and worth a watch. Many anons assume any movie worth a watch however is "good".
I watch it all the time. You sound like a seditionist.
Its Kino until the second half when it goes full Hokey
The Ocean of the World belongs to Everyone and is Free to Sail for ALL. Don't like it, do something pussy.
I wouldn't worry about it.
I wouldn’t worry about it OP
that's a specialist vessel, used by our Tier 1 guys. it's a staging ship
I wouldn't worry about it
this but unironically, they are ships without a mission and generally support low-intensity missions (like patrols)
keep an eye out for cable snippers though
>this but unironically, they are ships without a mission and generally support low-intensity missions (like patrols)
I just realized how moronic this reads
ESB ("Expeditionary Mobile Base") = MLP ("Mobile Landing Platform") = ESD ("Expeditionary Transfer Dock"), don't question the gap between the acronyms and the actual names, it's dumber than you think
They are ships without a mission because they were built for no particular reason. The goal was to have older logistics vessels obsolesce while ESD supported amphibious assault forces, but ESD are neither large enough nor capable enough to serve this role, so some of the vessels were repurposed to act as hubs for counter-intelligence and anti-piracy operations. The picture you posted is an example.
While hauling spooks sound spooky, it means that ESBs are operated mainly by civilians and that they have to do something in their down time.
By ESB:
>Puller (ESB-3)
Outside Bahrain, has been for years. I'm guessing bullying Iranians and/or pirates lately. No sign of another stealth heli assassination or a suspicious outing.
>Williams (ESB-4)
Returning from reminding South Africa that no country is too far South for the US to invade if they keep fricking around (also generally pretty popular in the region for pirate hunting)
>Keith (ESB-5)
Just chilling in the Philippines for various photo ops following Balikatan.
>Canley (ESB-6)
Not underway yet, just got named in June.
Nothing too exciting, yeah.
we sent men to the moon aint gotta explain shit
>No reference
Too late!
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/184a388d-6952-4250-b11f-61992d6bf4b6
I wouldn't worry about it.
Oh hey, one of the NIOC-C guys I worked with went to one of these. Guess they need CTT's
Better question, what the frick are you doing the Congo that makes you so concerned about a United States FOB ship?
Probably involves raping children
I would think they would send a congressional delegation to that, rather than a FOB ship.
He might be Phillipino or from one of the Gulf countries if the previous anon's post about their location can be trusted.
>trusted
all of them have transponders on, you can just look them up on MarineTraffic
Yes, but this is PrepHole and there are no consequences for being wrong, so I'm going to lazily accept what someone compiled for me at face value since they all seem believable.
If he's from the Philippines why would even care? Like 70% of that country wishes we still owned the place.
Sea base. Here it is.
https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2020/august/8845-operational-deployment-for-new-us-navy-sea-basing-ships-uss-hershel-woody-williams-esb-4.html
To be perfectly honest, I don't know. I don't know why we even has these pieces of shit when they seem to just be less capable LSDs. I guess they're cheaper.
Its a standard icecream production ship for a carrier fleet, don't worry it's not heavily armed
Don't worry, freedom will soon come to you and your community.
>Oblique references to a 90's movie featuring Kevin Costner is not a fricking answer.
That ship is your The Bodyguard starring Whitney Houston
Floating CIA prison.
Don't worry about him.
USS Kearsarge was docked in my countries capital but way off in the industrial part so you couldn't really see it