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Subfixer - when were the external countermeasure launchers changed on Ohio boats?

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  • Member since
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  • From: Spartanburg, SC
Posted by subfixer on Friday, June 25, 2010 4:20 PM

I wish that I could tell you for certain, Ed, a lot of those mods take place gradually during refits and overhauls. You'll see guys working on some project or other and assume that all they are doing is some structural work and the next time you look there is just a plain ol' solid piece of steel, then other times you'll go back and there'll be some weird looking dohickey sticking out where nothing should be at all. I remember a fast attack in drydock with, what looked like, a large form fitting billboard on the starboard side. We do all of the work on this particular boat  but nobody could remember it being fitted up on the hull. It turned out that it was a passive side scanning sonar array that was being tested for the Virginia boats being developed at the time. It was removed during that drydocking. Also, during that same drydock availability, stern ACLs (Accoustic Countermeasures Launchers)  were mounted.

As to your question, I think that the changes were being implemented after 1999. But I don't know for certain and I don't know much of what goes on at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

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  • Member since
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  • From: Mansfield, TX
Subfixer - when were the external countermeasure launchers changed on Ohio boats?
Posted by EdGrune on Friday, June 25, 2010 9:29 AM

I used to know this when I worked on SSBN simulator programs at my job. But I've slept since then ...

When did the change occur that removed the eight Five-inch Evasion Device (FED) launchers from the turtle-back aft of the sail on Ohio boats and replaced them with more launchers farther aft on the turtle back (four on opposite side).

 
From the Don Hinton collection -- an Ohio entering Pearl Harbor in 2007.

Dragon has announced a new 1:350 scale double-kit of an Ohio (as the Maryland) and a LA (as the Chicago).  The Ohio looks like it may be a re-pop of the old Sea Power item.   The LA is reported to be new-tool.  Other photos from Dragon show the "billboards" on the LA stern planes to be deleted (i.e. now accurate). 

The art provided appears to show the FEDs on their Maryland and I can't remember if it happened on or after the Maryland.

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