{"id":140276,"date":"2023-04-22T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=140276"},"modified":"2023-04-21T18:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:32:20","slug":"navys-latest-ship-makes-it-50ft-into-the-water-before-hitting-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=140276","title":{"rendered":"Navy&#8217;s latest ship makes it 50ft into the water before hitting something"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_124703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124703\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-124703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USS-Freedom-130222-N-DR144-174-crop-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USS-Freedom-130222-N-DR144-174-crop-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USS-Freedom-130222-N-DR144-174-crop-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USS-Freedom-130222-N-DR144-174-crop-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USS-Freedom-130222-N-DR144-174-crop-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USS-Freedom-130222-N-DR144-174-crop-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USS-Freedom-130222-N-DR144-174-crop.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleveland&#8217;s sister ship USS Freedom (LCS-1)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The US Navy, who has made it something of a pastime recently to run into things while sailing the seven seas, has had an eminently foreseeable collision with one of their newest (not even commissioned yet) warship. The future-USS Cleveland (LCS-31) made it about three seconds into its first dip in the drink before hitting another vessel. In this case a tugboat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how it happened, and I&#8217;m no expert on nautical operations, but it did seem like the tug was a wee bit too close to the big ass ship about to do a sideways cannonball into the Menominee River.\u00a0Here&#8217;s the video for your enjoyment, from many different angles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c2vTlIRwbKA\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2023\/04\/19\/future-lcs-cleveland-launches-strikes-tugboat\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mil-ebb&amp;SToverlay=de88742f-46f7-4f2c-819d-3b36a47d6a7e\">Navy Times has the story<\/a>. This is just the latest problem with the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy, who has made it something of a pastime recently to run into things &hellip; <a title=\"Navy&#8217;s latest ship makes it 50ft into the water before hitting something\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=140276\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy&#8217;s latest ship makes it 50ft into the water before hitting something<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":124703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447,119,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dick-stepping","category-navy","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}