The SWO Picture Gallery for those so inclined

[Alpha_Echo_606]

100622-N-0775Y-043 SAN DIEGO (June 22, 2010) A tomahawk missile launches off the aft vertical launching system aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104). Sterett is conducting a weeklong training exercise to test its tactical weapons systems in preparation for its upcoming deployment. (U.S. photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Carmichael Yepez/Released)

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

100622-N-7058E-161 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 22, 2010) The littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) fires its MK 110 57mm gun during a surface gunnery test. Freedom is scheduled to participate in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2010, the world's largest international maritime exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Ed Early/Released)

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

100623-N-3885H-033 ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 23, 2010) A NATO Sea Sparrow missile is launched from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush completed its first-ever missile launch while underway conducting combat systems ship qualification trials. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall/Released)

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

100620-N-7948R-752 DILI, Timor-Leste (June 20, 2010) The amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) is underway off the coast of Timore-Leste at dusk. Sailors from the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group and embarked Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (15th MEU) are participating in Exercise Crocodillo, a series of civil programs and training exercises with the Timor Leste and Australian militaries. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Russell/Released)

 

[Jim123]

100623-N-3885H-033 ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 23, 2010) A NATO Sea Sparrow missile is launched from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush completed its first-ever missile launch while underway conducting combat systems ship qualification trials. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall/Released)

I thought I missed something but Google turns up that the fins on the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile are different. For a second I thought that was a Standard coming out of a NSSM launcher.

I wonder if ESSM finally did away with TAS?

 

[BigRed389]

100623-N-3885H-033 ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 23, 2010) A NATO Sea Sparrow missile is launched from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush completed its first-ever missile launch while underway conducting combat systems ship qualification trials. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall/Released)

That looks more like an ESSM, though fired from the NSSM launcher.

 

[HeyJoe]

100628-N-6720T-168 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 28, 2010) The guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) fires an MK 45 five-inch gun during a live-fire exercise. The MK 45 gun is a fully-automatic naval gun capable of providing accurate naval gunfire against fast, highly-maneuverable surface targets, air threats and shore batteries. Curtis Wilbur is assigned to Destroyer Squadron 15, part of the Navy's only permanently forward-deployed naval force and is underway supporting security and stability in the western Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Adam K. Thomas/Released)

 

[HeyJoe]

There's something you don't see everyday

...or would have seen during the Cold War

100625-G-7265M-396 SAN FRANCISCO (June 25, 2010) Russian Sailors man the rails as Russian navy missile-cruiser Varyag departs San Francisco Bay. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Pamela J. Manns/Released)

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

100629-N-0754Y-012 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 29, 2010) The aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) conducts a live-fire exercise of its Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS). George Washington conducted the exercise as a part of a preventive maintenance check for the CIWS. George Washington is underway in the western Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Justin E. Yarborough/Released)

 

[HeyJoe]

100630-N-0464S-123 PEARL HARBOR (June 29, 2010) Ships from 14 nations are in port at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the 2010 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise. RIMPAC is a biennial, multinational exercise designed to strengthen regional partnerships and improve multinational interoperability. (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Rachel Swiatnicki/Released)

 

[HeyJoe]

100630-N-9806M-116 NORFOLK (June 30, 2010) The Royal Navy landing platform dock ship HMS Ocean (L12) arrives at Naval Station Norfolk during Operation AURIGA. AURIGA is the Royal Navy's major deployment of 2010 to the Eastern Seaboard of North America and the western Atlantic Ocean. The U.K. Amphibious Task Group, will participate in a joint exercise with the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group and II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF) off the coast of North Carolina. Operation AURIGA is focusing on a series of U.S. and Canadian exercises to enhance operational capability by training with coalition partners in traditional warfighting areas of carrier strike, amphibious assault and anti-submarine warfare operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Rafael Martie/Released)

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

100704-N-7638K-262 VILLEFRANCHE, France (July 4, 2010) The Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Taylor (FFG 50) is moored at full dress in honor of independence day while in port at Villefranche, France. Taylor is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Edward Kessler/Released)

 

[Gatordev]

Damn, that is one tight anchorage.

 

[Steve Wilkins]

Damn, that is one tight anchorage.

Doubtful they anchored like that. Besides, frigates have APU's (Aux Propulsion Units) that help them get in/out of some pretty tight places. There's nothing on her starboard beam, so just pivot the ship to starboard and head straight back out to sea.

 

[PerDiem]

I don't think they're anchored. If you look closer, you can see a mooring line coming out of the bullnose and attached to something in the water.