@LHoffman:
Did they talk about A&A in the show, or just happen to have the pieces around and decide to use them?
They just use the pieces while discussing a mission. It’s actually funny since I’ve just read that they are using CGI and the actual USS Iowa to represent the Russian Kirov-class cruiser present on the series and the A&A piece for the US battleship is modeled after the Iowa class.
@CWO:
@LHoffman:
Does this show address how the destroyer keeps operating in a post-apocalyptic world? I mean, I assume they can’t just pull into a port and refuel. Arleigh Burke class destroyers are conventionally powered after all.
I am also assuming the US is no longer a functioning country.
In the novel the destroyer was nuclear-powered - which struck me as improbable for such a ship type, even allowing for the fact that some modern destroyers are the size of WWII cruisers. The US once operated a nuclear guided missile “destroyer leader”, the Bainbridge, but she was later reclassed as a cruiser.
Well, the US had the Long Beach, Truxtun, Bainbridge, California and Virginia classes of Destroyer Leaders, all of them with nuclear propulsion and later reclassified as cruisers. The Burkes are classified as destroyers but their displacement is about the same and they pack more missiles than those cruiser classes.
By the 4th episode they had to refuel twice, first from an abandoned cruise liner off the French coast and then at Gitmo.