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US Destroyer in Portsmouth 18 October 2018

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Colin Bishop:
There was a US DD in Portsmouth today, almost certainly Arleigh Burke class but berthed where the QE ties up and too far away to identify from the public area of the dockyard. I can't find any info onlin and Queens Harbourmaster has it listed as 'Foreign warship' arriving yesterday. Marine Traffic has it tagged as 'Government Vessel' and there is nothing in the local paper online.

I only had my small camera with me.

Colin

Liverbudgie2:
DDG-98 USS Forest Sherman.

LB

Colin Bishop:
Thanks LB, she seems to have been left over from the recent visit of the Harry Truman task force earlier this month. On detatched duties perhaps.
Colin

rnli12:
NATO tasking

Colin Bishop:
It is the first time I have seen an Arleigh Burke 'in the flesh' so to speak. I appreciate that they are very powerful warships but they look quite old fashioned and fussy, fetooned with aerials, compared with the cleaner lines of our Darings.

I understand that the USN are building more of the class to an updated design following the relative failure of the revolutionary Zumwalt class whcih has simply proved to be too expensive and prone to problems.

Anyone care to comment on this?

Colin

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