USS Intrepid & USS Growler

While in NYC in December we visited the USS Intrepid - a carrier - and it's smaller chum the submarine USS Growler.  You may also want to look again at Martin Rapier's post from November 2019 here.  I have more photos somewhere - I'll post 'em when they show up.

Luckily the Intrepid is decommissioned - as the bloke in charge looks like a bungling oaf!

On the hangar deck there is a nice model of the Intrepid - on closer inspection it turned out to be Lego!

Unusually (for a US carrier) the flight deck hosts a pair of MIGs  A 15 (above) and 21.

You can't go wrong with a Skyhawk.

Neatly folded Corsair

H-25 Army Mule helicopter

F-4J Fury, the navalised version of the F-86 Sabre

After a canter round the Intrepid it was off next door to the entertainingly named Growler.  Launched in 1958, this was the US Navy's first missile sub.  Think of it as basically a WW2 boat with a deck hangar holding four missiles.

Ah, the missiles.  Think V-1 with an ego.  I pity the poor buggers who had to fool around on deck preparing the things to launch.