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- Welcome for USS Indianapolis,
fourth of his namesake.
We have a long history,
We have an amazing crew.
I'm Kim C Dantone,
and I'll be leading you on this tour today.
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Welcome to the waterborne mission zone or the WMZ.
This is where we launch an 11 meters small boat
out of the back of the ship.
The back door will open.
The ramp will go down
and that will launch the rib.
If we can use those four VBSS team
to for counter drug operations
or pirate operations throughout the world.
Right behind me,
we have a picture of the beautiful city, Indianapolis.
And then we have a main motto of the Navy that says,
"never give up your ship."
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This is the mess x.
This is where the USS crew eats
there's practically fifty people that eat on the mess X.
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- [David] Welcome to our Mission Control Center.
I'm a Chief Operations Specialist David Simmons.
I'm originally from Canton, Georgia.
And I'm gonna give you a little bit about
what we do here inside a MCC.
Normally we send a three personnel watch in here.
We have our tactical actions officer,
which has the weapons release authority on board the ship.
We have our force net supervisor
who's in control of the air tracks
as well as making sure that we can not send
tactual information off work ship.
We also have our defensive systems operator
also known as the VSO.
That's in charge of our C Ram
as well as our ALEC system,
which is our, our chap that we have on board.
The consoles that you'll see behind me,
the four consoles,
are reserved for our mission package.
So we have a, my mission package that we're slated to have.
And when we have those up and running
we'll be operating various missions
from the consoles that you see behind me.
There is also two more consoles
that we have in here on the side
that's reserved for our fire scout
so we'll have people that are, that are pilots
being able to take care of the mission
from these consoles over here.
Lastly, the last console that we have
is the Mark 110 directly behind me.
The Mark 110 is a you control the 57 millimeter
that we have on the clamp of our ship.
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We also have the ability to control optical sight from there
and VID contact that we're going about.
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- [Eric] Good morning. I'm Gunner's mate Stabenow.
Behind me is the Mk 110 Beaufort 57 millimeter gun
LLCs 17 shit main battery.
It is a 57 millimeter Naval weapons system
designed for a surface and air combat,
shoots 220 rounds a minute,
magazine capacity of 120 rounds,
fires approximately out to 18,000 yards.
We use the weapon for surface defense,
air defense as a backup to C Ram
offensive measures and defensive measures for the ship.
Each round comes out of the barrel
at approximately 3000 rounds per second.
And the projectors themselves are five,
about five pounds.
And each one holds 2,400 tanks and pallets.
So inside here behind me is the weapons system itself.
I'll show you one of the rounds.
This is what the 57 millimeter rounds look like.
It's a fixed gun ammunition
projector on the front
and the casing itself on the back.
The weapons system has three magazines set up.
You have the gun magazines that hold 20 rounds a piece,
the cassettes that hold 20 rounds a piece
and then the intermediate mags below.
And the weapons system gets all the rounds
and they're fitted from below
inside the magazine up the round hoists
rammed into the cassettes
and the weapon system loads from 77 degrees of elevation
loads comes back down on target
and proceeds on bearing assigned.
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- [Mathew] Welcome to the greatest pilot house in the fleet.
We have three watch standards on the bridge.
We have the RCO, the RCO's in charge
of the main propulsion system
and the auxiliary system.
The ship has over a hundred thousand horsepower
and we can go 40 plus knots.
So the RCO has a lot of responsibilities
compared to other warships.
Other warships also have about 11 watch centers
that are in the pilot house.
We only have three.
So in the front left seat we had the junior officer deck.
The junior officer deck is a forceful backup for the OD.
They use the voice management system,
which is electronic charting system.
And they also use the cameras,
which we have over 80 of them
in all the spaces onboard the ship.
On the right seat we have the officer deck.
The officer deck is in charge of driving the ship.
And they relay all reports to the commanding officer
so the commanding officer can get some sleep.
We're a lot different than legacy ships.
We have several buckets and we have boot sheds.
So it's kind of like a jet ski.
The ship reaches speeds of over 44 knots.
We can do that for approximately 16 hours.
We're the most maneuverable ship in the entire fleet.
We can spin around in a circle from one pivot point,
or we could drive around the buoy with our bow there.
The ship does amazing things
that no other ship in the Navy can do.
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Welcome to the flight deck.
This is where we land both civilian and military aircraft.
We can land the Mh 60 on board.
Their mission is for SAR.
They can do counter-drug operations.
They can do a pirate operations.
We can both launch a fire Scouts,
which is a drone.
We can also launch fixed wing drones
from the flight deck and recover them.
Thank you for taking this virtual tour
onboard USS Indianapolis.
The greatest shift in the fleet.
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