Fletcher class by the general shape of her. Pennant number is obsured but looks like __8(or 6)5 or something with C 4 beyond that. First number is too far aft for it to be a USN number. Perhaps the Greek Sfendoni, or the Nearchos? Their pennant numbers were 85 and 65 respectively (thank you, Conways).

Submarine in background doesn’t appear to be underway– no pennant and doesn’t seem to have a wake. Sonar dome on top of casing– Foxtrot class at a guess?

I’d love to have her as a weekend project but Lake Champlain is demilitarized and I have enough unfinished projects around here to keep me busy.

Loved touring The Sullivan’s when I lived in Buffalo. She and the Little Rock were a great pair and counterpoint to each other and like you said URR, well-designed, tough and versatile. Take what they did to the Little Rock– from all-gun CL to a CLG with extra command space. Can’t do that kind of mod these days.

When I was but a lad, we were scared by the ghost stories that The Sullivans was haunted by the ghosts of the five brothers roaming her decks. Any word on whether they put in for a transfer to DDG-68 or are they loyal to the original?

So, who would you bet on in a surface fight? That or LCS-1 or 2.

No matter how high speed-low drag the LCS’s may be there is just something very intimidating about a ship close aboard with gun turrets training on your boghammer. Especially if there are multiple gun turrets with 5″ muzzles.

But in today’s age of procurement, they’d have to put it out to bid, add a bunch of stuff on it, make it stealthy, have a competition between two companies, incur major cost overruns, have congressional hearings where either you think it’s the greatest thing since the Monitor, or it’s an expensive boondoggle that oughta be scrapped.

Then once the contract is awarded, there has to be more mods, more changes and eventually it will see fleet service in very small numbers by about 2052 or so, just in time for President Miley Cyrus to cancel it…

Any thoughts on the sub in the background?