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I think you've had attention number 49 She's the only one that'll find that way The Navy designed the F-14 for fleet tasks and we think it does that job magnificently The F-14 has been operating off of the USS Enterprise in the Pacific Fleet and that this is its fleet introduction and that our experience has been that the aircraft's performance has exceeded expectations now in a fleet air defense role and that means shooting down enemy aircraft that threaten our ships at sea we consider that the F-14 is about three times as good as the current F-4 the F-14 first and foremost is an honest airframe it's a product of the Grumman iron works it flies and handles controls simply easily nicely it comes aboard at speeds approaching the a6 and the 120 knot area the airplane has the computer control swing wing concept which gives it a great advantage as far as being a good dogfighter is concerned the F-14 has the long range phoenix missile which gives us approximately twice the range of any other missile that we know in existence today as well as carrying the phoenix we do carry the sparrow and the sidewinder and the M-61 Vulcan cannon for the closer in dogfight arena in summary the F-14 is an extremely capable and flexible weapon system that does in fact permit the navy to operate any place any time this is USS Spruant vd-963 which is the first of 30 destroyers of the class which are under construction the ship is designed to provide any submarine warfare protection and any surface ship protection to the fast carrier task force and to amphibious forces and of course all other convoys that we would have it see the ship is equipped with a large helicopter facility she will have an as rock launcher she carries mark 32 torpedo tubes and the sqs 53 sonar which is bow mounted and which is the most capable sonar we have in the fleet today an interesting thing about the design of this ship is careful attention has been given to its capability for future modernization or conversion that five inch gun forward can be replaced with an eight inch gun in the same way the as rock launcher can be replaced with launchers which could fire harpoon or a charter any aircraft missile the ship will be powered by gas turbine it's the first major warship to be so powerful its length is 563 feet overall the beam of 55 feet displacement of about 7800 tons this is just about the same size as the atlanta class cruiser that saw so much service in world war two the habitability of this ship should be the best that we have and have ever had in a destroyer a ship also will have air conditioning and will have lighting and noise suppression features which are superior to that which we've seen in the past the amphibious assault concept is a costly one and a complex one as a result of a study several years back it was considered that there'd be a considerable saving in people and in dollars if we could optimize the characteristics of our assault ship into one modern warship that's what we have here in the lha to give you a good frame of reference lha is equivalent to a world war two attack carrier she's approximately 820 feet long and just under 40 000 tons displacement she'll travel at over 20 knots and therefore will be in the vanguard of any amphibious operation in the future the principal feature of the ship that makes it an attractive ship from the amphibious picture is that she offers operational integrity to the marine landing team and bark lha can take their troops ashore by helicopter if that's more advantageous or by wheel to track vehicles over the beach or by landing craft if that's the chosen method and it can do all three it carries over 1700 troops plus all of the wheeled equipment that goes along with them and all of the miscellaneous cargo necessary to support them for an integrated and an all out initial attack this tactical integrity and operational flexibility given the task force commander is truly a new feature of this new class of ships lha well i'm very much interested i think we're all very much interested in the surface effect ship now idea we've got to we've got to develop a great speed to be able to react anywhere in the world in the shortest possible time i think the later generation of surface effect ship will give us that we'll be able to respond to a major threat anywhere in the world in three or four days even the remote areas and i'm hoping to be the first hundred not secretary we're really pioneering this ses field we had two smaller craft we had one of three times one of 17 tons and they look good so the next step was 110 uh bell arrow space built the one what you see here and arrow jet general at Tacoma built the 108 so these are really our developmental tools to go to the 2000 ton ship these were to prove the feasibility of the concept and we have just completed the contractor testing evaluation program and we are starting the uh in the design and the development of the critical parts of the 2000 ton ship as you know we now have all navy crew for both of these craft and these will be our training classrooms these will be the classrooms for the crews that will man the 2000 ton ships this craft will make it will do about 35 to 40 knots in 8 to 10 foot waves it has done it but this was designed to operate in six foot waves this one achieved a speed uh slightly over 80 knots which uh out in the bay here which is far as i know it's the fastest that this any of these craft have ever done it even what the british have the performance of these craft have exceeded our expectations and they in that respect we have exceeded the contract requirements which is uh kind of unusual in a developmental program this airplane is the e2c it's also called the hawkeye it's an airborne early warning airplane what this airplane really does is is to provide the answer to the problem that has caused consternation to every ship captain and every task force commander since navies came into existence he has to know where the enemy is and what he's doing the e2c hawkeye provides the answers to to his questions on that and what his own forces are doing for example this airplane could be flying over philadelphia and discern just about all of the airliners flying between boston and say norfolk we have uh incidentally and this is certainly an improvement over any previous airplanes a data link digital data links between the airplane and any ships in the task force that might be on the navy tactical data system that why we basically transmit the same picture that the e2c hawkeye has on its radar scope to the radar scope uh aboard the ship in the dome are two antennas an antenna for the radar there's also a i f f antenna the emergency identification friend info the old world war two i f f who's your friend and who's your foe people in my project office are very proud of of this particular airplane because we've done what we said we would do when we said we would do it and within the cost that we said we would do it this is probably one of the most successful acquisition programs in the navy the very character is a follow on to the kennedy an enterprise class as you know she is nuclear powered as two of the largest nuclear reactors in the world to power the ship it is designed to support operate and to maintain the most modern aircraft the navy has the limits represents the major element of power in our conventional warfare forces it's the limits surrounded protected and supported by nuclear frigates is the key element in projecting naval power both at shore and in to ensure control of the sea we'll have a crew of over five thousand officers and men and we have all the support necessary to make this a comfortable capable place to live and work effort was made in building the limits to automate and to replace with those jobs that were suitable for automation and to reduce demanding to the lowest possible level attended with this of course we do have a more complex ship with the reduction in the total numbers of ships in the navy we've got to gain a greater multi-purpose mission capability in each unit therefore i believe that we must emphasize in the u.s navy an offensive capability and that offensive capability for surface combatants would reside in missiles such as harpoon and extended harpoon or a long-range cruise missile that we might see in the future the harpoon missile is an anti-ship weapon system being developed by the naval air systems command this missile is being designed as a versatile common weapon will go on many different launch platforms in the aviation community the weapon will be able to be based from a shore-based p3 squadrons will also be capable of being put aboard carrier-based s3 and a7 aircraft in the surface navy the missile is currently being designed and developed and fired from the de class ships and also it's planned to put aboard the ddg and dlg class also the phm navy will be receiving the harpoon missile as well as the ssn the missile is designed with a range of approximately 60 miles it is a surface skimming missile with an active radar seeker during the design phase of the harpoon weapon system 12 engineering models of the harpoon missile were fired with 10 successfully impacting the target and the present stage we're in the weapon system development phase we're now firing prototype missiles thus far we have fired 11 missiles of which 10 again successfully impacted the target this is a phm one the pegasus the phm is a nato program germany and italy have shared the cost of the design of the lead ships the first two ships will be built for the united states will have 28 more ultimately as part of a production program with which germany and hopefully italy will be involved the german plan is for 10 ships the italians have planned for four ships the crew of the pegasus will be four officers and 17 enlisted men so it's a very small crew a very compact ship perhaps the most important characteristic of the hydrofoil is that it's an extremely stable platform in very rough weather in weather which will cause a destroyer to slow down this ship will be able to operate at at least 40 knots and be much more stable than a much larger ship and therefore its weapons will operate better and will be more effective as a weapon system the ships are powered by a gas turbine which drives a water jet pump in the soil born condition then there are two hull born water jet pumps which are driven by german diesel engines the phm weapon system consists primarily of eight harpoon missiles it also has a 76 millimeter italian gun the 76 millimeter gun is used for both anti surface attack as well as anti air protection for the ship the total displacement is 235 tons but with eight harpoon missiles should be a very effective fighting ship the s3a viking aircraft was seen as a replacement for the s2 tracker which was an old propeller driven aircraft of a 1948 to a 1952 vintage with several other derivatives that were built in the latter years several inherent advantages in the aircraft over the old s2 is its increased range and its increased ability to process a tremendous amount of data that was previously unavailable to a carrier asw aircrew the aircraft's level of sophistication is significantly greater than has been seen in carrier asw before the aircraft does have a dash capability or its speed limited to 450 knots or 0.79 indicated mach number this gives it the ability to transit extremely rapidly to a known contact area the aircraft also has the ability to maneuver extremely well it's designed and optimized to fly as slow as 160 knots or 150 knots in that area in a maneuvering situation and at the same time it has its tremendous dash capability we use just four people and they have several distinct functions although the aircraft is a multi piloted aircraft one of the pilots who functions as a co-pilot is really a nonacoustic sensors operator and a navigator and a communicator the other two crew members are the tactical coordinator who is a naval flight officer and a sensor operator who is an aw the aircraft is designed to be able to be operated off of any of the existing carriers that we have in the inventory today full and sophisticated ssn 690 the uss philadelphia the third of 28 planned los angeles class nuclear attack submarines new extensions of american strength and endurance under the seas when her hull slips into the thames river here in grottin connecticut today the us navy will flex a new muscle she'll carry the most advanced weapons and anti submarine systems ever devised no world war two submarineer in his wildest imagination could possibly have dreamed up such a ship well uh it's the first new class of submarine attack submarine we've built in 10 years the 688 class will give us the most advanced attack submarine in the world this submarine will be a very proven nuclear power plant it will have the most advanced sensors the most advanced computer equipment i'd say the most advanced fire control equipment in the world and it'll give us an edge for a period of time i am convinced that we can have the newest aircraft the most modern ships the most advanced weapons in our inventory but unless we have the personnel who can maintain those systems properly we will never come close to realizing the true potential of the force we have we've got to have a stable force created in professional men and women in the service who are in the navy because that's what they want to do and who are motivated primarily by wish to serve