Watering the lawn on the Kitty Hawk
15 Sep 2006
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USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) tests its flight deck counter measure wash-down sprinkler systems (CMWDS). The CMWDS provides a blanket of water protection to the exterior of a ship during a chemical, biological or radiological (CBR) attack. Currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility, Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy’s only permanently, forward-deployed aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jarod Hodge (RELEASED)
September 15th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
When people bitch about defense costs - how much does it cost to put a sprinkler system in your lawn? Oh! you want it on a few acres of steel deck. And the sprinkler heads need to survive the deck traffic……. How many other thousands of mission necessary little doofers are there on a carrier that we never think nor know about when thinking about costs? Good lesson in this image!
September 15th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
And in an emergency, such as a crash and fire, they can pump foam thru that system. Mod after the Enterprise, Forestal and Oriskany fires…
September 16th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
My old Birdfarm…warms my hart. Rip: DJ has it partly correct. The main reason the are there and the rest of our ship is for wash down after a nuc/bio/chem attack
September 18th, 2006 at 8:28 am
Makes me think of the USAF’s aircraft carrier - it needs sprinklers, sand rakes and grounskeepres. http://www.donaldsensing.com/Pix/0502/USAF_1st_Aircraft_Carrier.jpg