Let me add my thanks to those who are making efforts large and small to keep the rest of us safe, from direct medical care to supply chain management and keeping the grocery store open.
A very nicely executed drawing. The forest of radio antennas is quite something. I might rotate one of the long-range HF aerials to show its structure, but that's artist's preference.
The drawing is provided in Sumrall's Sumner-Gearing-Class Destroyers , a book which I can heartily recommend (although it is not quite so insightful as Friedman's works, its scope is narrower and more precise). A quibble: I think that by the time SG waveguide issues had been sorted out, SC would be ...
For what it's worth, I think the original air search radar fit (SPS-49 and that's it) is much more likely. SPS-48 would be an expensive waste on a ship that has no real AAW fit and is not itself an aircraft carrier.
The usual excellence I've come to expect. JOHNSTON was one of the "square bridge" FLETCHER class destroyers, which incorporated a revised/simplified open bridge based on British war experience. While it's certainly true that British experience went into the bridge revisions, this seems to sort of in...
I agree that removal of some 5" twins makes sense, even if they were replaced with nothing. Crewing these beasts wasn't cheap. Best might be to remove the center six mounts and relocate the Harpoon canisters to the newly-empty space. Then you could also remove the beam Mk 37, which would further red...
For what it's worth, I'd trade the masthead ESM for TACAN, keep the ABLs, keep the VHF, and do something Tico-y with the Phalanx :) It's always seemed odd ot me that there is no SPS-49 or equivalent on the design. I guess it just didn't fit the very constrained nuclear hull, but I'd have liked to pu...
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