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What the ever loving F&#K did they do to make the ship rotate in two dimensions during the launch? Forget to remove the stops in the middle or something? I've seen videos of a bunch of sideways launches because I like to see the idiots watching from the opposite shore get chased away by the wav...

Would a ship with regular frames not be twisted after something like this?

Close up picture

https://x.com/PeterOlsson/status/1925808572916506642


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Zubian

Looks like the biggest warship they previously build are 1.6k ton frigates and corvettes. Is it such a big jump from there to 5k or was that just bad luck?

No idea what that yard is doing with regard to merchants.

With Opera Mini only when i switch between WiFi and mobile data.

I just leave that here for no particular reason.

https://youtu.be/h3JCloXoaPE?feature=shared

Not enough. The 105mm gun is too big for the desired weight. The amount of armor is too much for the desired weight. The extra crew person probably only accounts for around 500 lbs at most, and an autoloader would weight at least that much. What they needed to do is scale the gun down to something ...

Demon Lord Razgriz wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 11:40 pm IIRC, it was to use the stockpile of 105s the Abrams were originally armed with.

It was designed for the canceled M8.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M35_tank_gun

The M4 was exceptionally good at getting out of it really quickly, straight overhead hatches and spring loaded too, it also had relatively soft armor that produced fewer splinters when penetrated and tankers wore helmets. I'm fairly sure the hatches of the T-34 weren't spring loaded and the tanker's...

25(27) -> 38. Not a near miss but at least they killed it fast. In case the want to try again, here's a vehicle to start from.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanque_ ... no_Mediano

Ah, that's why they pop up, to penetrate the unarmored deck of modern ships and explode deep within. I always wondered why the prolonged exposure with the range of light AA.

I don't think the General B's armor would have mattered much against Exocets and Sea Slugs. We are talking about the deck, the turrets and a belt. The latter being mostly below the waterline. In other words the superstructure and hull above the waterline isn't protected and that's where missiles lik...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 3:47 pm

clancyphile wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 2:00 pm Probably a name worthy of a destroyer or frigate.

I was thinking amphib

Very fitting.

End of run self destruction? Doesn't mean the magnetic or impact fuses would have worked. No, I think torpedoes just sink if they don't hit anything. Why explode and let them know they were under attack? Yes, makes perfect sense, so the fish were still a bit fishy. The appropriate joke for a hit wi...

The WV and Oklahoma took most of the torpedo because they were opposite the exit from the channel to the submarine base that the Japanese used to approach. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Pearlmap2.png They could have spread out wider but than some planes would fly over land, ove...

End of run self destruction?

Doesn't mean the magnetic or impact fuses would have worked.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2024 12:52 am

kdahm wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2024 12:41 am USS GETTYSBERG CG64

USS WILLIAM D PORTER DD579

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FEEL YOUR PAIN. BEEN THERE MYSELF.

AT LEAST POTUS NOT ON BOARD

MESSAGE ENDS

Since it was FDR, he was probably having the time of his life.

And even if the tops had hit, would they have detonated?

kdahm wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:41 pm Also tied up in the differences between coincident and stereoscopic rangefinders.....

That dazzle camo worked with British rangefinders but with the German ones?