Guns of the Dirty Nickel
Sailors and Marines from the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan, LHD-5, (popularly known as the Dirty Nickel) participating in a swim call. June 14, 2014.
The image gives you a very nice view of the LHD’s stern, showing off part of her multi-layered self-defense suite. At the top left you see a CIWS 20mm (improved Block 1B) then, in the center, is an eight pack Mk-29 Guided Missile Launching System (Sea Sparrow) launcher over a stabilized and remotely operated (Typhoon Weapon System) Mk38 MOD2 25mm chaingun, and finally on the right is a 21-cell Mk 31 Guided Missile Weapon System (GMWS) launcher for Rolling Air Frame missiles. All in all, not too shabby.