Wasp’s Tail
How about this great detail of the layered defense of stingers in an LHD’s tail?
ATLANTIC OCEAN (July 20, 2023) Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) conducts routine operations in the Atlantic Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Danilo Reynoso) 230720-N-VO895-3048
Sandwiched between the flight deck and the well dock doors, you see one of the ship’s two 21-cell RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers, one of her two 8-cell RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile launchers, one of her two 20mm Phalanx Mk 15 Mod 1B CIWS systems, and one of her three 25mm Mk 38 Mod 2 Machine Gun Systems. Not bad for a ‘phib.
A close-up:
