This is a schematic of the LHD-1 Class:
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The Navy has said that the fire started in "Deep-V" storage, which is probably #18 on the schematic. Everything above that is likely gone: Sick Bay, Officer's Country, all of the command and control spaces, staff quarters, etc, etc. The spooks may regard all of the crypto stuff as being compromised, which will require Fleet-wide replacement whatever encodes that. (I have no idea how that stuff works.)
On the personnel side, figure that everyone with orders to the BHR is now in limbo.
Why would the crypto stuff be compromised? The whole point of a distributed system, a network, the Internet as example, is if one node is compromised the whole system is not. Should be as secure as it ever was, running Window 95. It's been a while since I did any computer work for the gubbermint, I would hope they had since joined the 21st century.
ReplyDeleteI am a firefighter, but I am obviously not there. I don't get the helicopter air drops they showed on the news this morning. The fireboats didn't seem to be accomplishing a whole lot either. I gotta figure most of what is burning through the ship are wires and cables, as well as any other normal combustibles still on board. There certainly isn't any combustible structural members, so I would think that if they're going to save that ship, they need to go in and get it the hard way.
ReplyDeleteWitold, the water is to keep the hull itself from softening and warping beyond any hope of repair.
ReplyDeleteIf the folks at Ft.Fumble aren't working on adding another ship to the America class, they're dumber than they look.
Though why they didn't build well decks into the first two ships of the America-class ships tells me nothing good about the inhabitants of that storied fort.
ReplyDeleteTen Bears, with pretty much unlimited access by possibly uncleared damage control crews and non-Federal firefighters, anyone with any view toward security will have to assume all of it has been compromised. The next step is evaluating what can be confirmed as slagged in place versus cannot be accounted for. Then there is determining if a system could be compromised from photos of its internals, if a copy of the operating system could have been downloaded, if elements (or an entire system) would allow reverse engineering of stolen, etc. Every code on board will be now considered compromised, but hopefully was a form of one-time.
ReplyDeleteComrade, the lessons of building the F-4 without a gun have been forgotten many times, the America class shows similar signs of imprudent design strategies. The U.K. lucked out when the Argentineans invaded before they retired their last flight decks, and even then it was a near run thing. The U.S. risks the same as we compromise ship design on the alter of the dollar savings.
ReplyDeleteThe first two Americas are intended to be more for F-35 platforms than assault ships.
ReplyDeleteBHR was nearing the end of a long refit/ upgrade. I'd be surprised if any crypto gear was aboard with all of the civilian work being done. Also why ship's force response was not what we'd normally expect.