Comments on: Update on USS New York, LPD 21

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:53:14 +0000

It would definitely be nice if they had weapons on it like the Tomahawk Cruise Missiles on it…
It is kind of disappointment to see the ship with no weapons on it…
it would have even been nice to see it armed with the new Missile Defense System missles and used in Missle defense…
As i would have though the ship would have been designed to counter terrism and that would mean missle defense…
It should have been built to look MEAN, huge cannons, machine guns, Anti-Air Missles, Anti-Ground Missles (such as the Tomahawk Cruise Missile), LOL!
And just have made it look like don’t mess with the USA or this is what we will turn on you, LOL!!
Annom200

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:53:13 +0000

I respect the symbolism of using metal from the 911 tragedy, but I feel cautious of the military (and I come from an Army family) using 911 to make their weapons appear relevant to this new era of conflict.

By: James

James — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:57:56 +0000

Hell yea awsome ship some awsome ppls even if they are yankies
Didn’t the Tarawa-class have some 5″ that were removed during the 1980’s? Maybe it’s the Marine in me, but I could never quite figure out why you would want to remove guns from a warship. If it was an issue with topweight, that’s one thing.
Anyone have some insight?
lol because we were going to make missiles for everything missiles are techy! plus some pencil pushing hippie polotician in the state dep. probbly thought guns where to agressive looking…
but again your a marine and think logicaly not your fault

By: Ontos

Ontos — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:21:52 +0000

As P.J. said.…. I’d love to see the new ‘phibs equipped with some organic fire support.
Didn’t the Tarawa-class have some 5″ that were removed during the 1980’s? Maybe it’s the Marine in me, but I could never quite figure out why you would want to remove guns from a warship. If it was an issue with topweight, that’s one thing.
Anyone have some insight?

By: P.J. Busche

P.J. Busche — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:29:18 +0000

I’d like to see the U.S. Navy eventually arm the USS New York with the multipurpose 155mm/52 cannon, and to give it all of the antiterrorist weapons systems our navy can think of.