{"id":10736,"date":"2021-05-10T21:27:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=10736"},"modified":"2021-05-10T21:34:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:34:31","slug":"big-chunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/dicker-brocken\/","title":{"rendered":"Big chunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy has netted a really big fish: On 8 May, the USS <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Miguel Keith<\/span> (ESB 5) into service. She is the third ship in the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Louis B. Puller<\/span>class and serves as a mobile base for the logistical support of high-value combat units. With a length of 233 metres and a width of 50 metres, it displaces around 79,000 tonnes. With its diesel-electric propulsion system, the ship can reach 15 knots and has a range of 9500 miles. Depending on the mission, there are 34 civilians and up to 250 soldiers on board. The <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Miguel Keith<\/span> at National Steel and Shipbuilding in San Diego, a subsidiary of General Dynamics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10735\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10735\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-2-mfo.jpg\" alt=\"Sister ship Lewis B. Puller\" width=\"1500\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-2-mfo.jpg 1500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-2-mfo-300x149.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-2-mfo-1024x507.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-2-mfo-768x380.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-2-mfo-1080x535.jpg 1080w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-2-mfo-750x372.jpg 750w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-2-mfo-1140x565.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sister ship Lewis B. Puller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Miguel Keith<\/span> is not armed, but it does have some special features. The striking design is essentially based on the civilian tankers of the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Alaska<\/span>-class. There is a flight deck with two landing pads for CH-53 heavy transport helicopters as well as space for four more helicopters of this size and a hangar installed at the bow. Alternatively, V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft can also be accommodated. The Keith is equipped with a Dynamic Positioning System to enable it to remain at a fixed point even in deep waters and to turn the ship in the appropriate direction for air traffic. The ship also has the ability to pick up mission-dependent cargo to support other combat units. Cranes that can take small boats weighing up to eleven tonnes on board and set them down again are also used for this purpose.<br \/>\nThe new addition was named after Lance Corporal Miguel Keith, a soldier in the US Marines who lost his life in Vietnam in 1970 and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10733\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10733\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-3-mfo.jpg\" alt=\"Nice backside of the Miguel Keith\" width=\"1500\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-3-mfo.jpg 1500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-3-mfo-300x149.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-3-mfo-1024x507.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-3-mfo-768x380.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-3-mfo-1080x535.jpg 1080w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-3-mfo-750x372.jpg 750w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-05-10-Keith-3-mfo-1140x565.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nice backside of the Miguel Keith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Text: mb; Photos: US Navy<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ein richtig dicker Fisch ist der US Navy ins Netz gegangen: Am 8. Mai stellte sie die USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) in Dienst. Sie ist das dritte Schiff der Louis-B.-Puller-Klasse und dient als mobile Basis zur logistischen Unterst\u00fctzung von hochwertigen Kampfeinheiten. Bei einer L\u00e4nge von 233 Metern und einer Breite von 50 Metern verdr\u00e4ngt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":10734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,486,45,42],"tags":[1032,1193,394],"class_list":["post-10736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schiffsbau-news","category-headlines","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-news","tag-indienststellung","tag-miguel-keith","tag-us-navy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}