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LeadSled posted:I think I've made this post before, but the USS Greeneville did engage in ship to ship combat. Guessing the CO played too much SH4 and went around ramming fishing boats in their Gato at flank speed. 
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Veloxyll posted:And are ships even armoured to withstand ship-board artillery these days? I don't believe so. Most ships nowadays don't pack much armor worth the name past Kevlar spall linings for ricochets, if I understand correctly. Not much point, since you can't really armor a ship enough all over enough to tank a modern anti-ship missile and have it stay afloat or have a high top speed at the same time... GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jan 6, 2016 |
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TehKeen posted:Guessing the CO played too much SH4 and went around ramming fishing boats in their Gato at flank speed. Are you going to pretend that bull rushing a sampan wasn't the best part of that game?
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Jan 6, 2016 23:58
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Zeroisanumber posted:Are you going to pretend that bull rushing a sampan wasn't the best part of that game? No, it isn't. This is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFN9nvFYHmk
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:there was plenty of innovation within the RN mostly in terms of good ship hygiene.
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Jan 7, 2016 00:25
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Adventure Pigeon posted:mostly in terms of good ship hygiene. Is it really all that innovative to keep the paint clean by not getting it dirty in the first place? Are there little artificial reefs you can go visit now where British ships were conducting firing drills by dumping their quota of shells overboard? Imagine all of that brass! (or other metal)
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LeadSled posted:I think I've made this post before, but the USS Greeneville did engage in ship to ship combat. Goddamn. That sub wont stop ramming things.
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Jan 7, 2016 01:10
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Saint Celestine posted:Goddamn. That sub wont stop ramming things. She didn't run aground - she rammed the planet.
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Jan 7, 2016 01:11
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TehKeen posted:She didn't run aground - she rammed the planet. Last I checked, the attempt was successful. The planet is swamped.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:there was plenty of innovation within the RN Seriously, you could have served on a wooded ship at the start of your career and served on the Dreadnought by the end
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Pvt.Scott posted:Last I checked, the attempt was successful. The planet is swamped. BB Terra Class hit! TT *** Atmospheric flash fire! Planet blows up!! ***
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sbaldrick posted:Seriously, you could have served on a wooded ship at the start of your career and served on the Dreadnought by the end Isn't that exactly what happened to Jackie Fisher? For all his faults and critics, some quite deserved, he managed to properly prepare the Royal Navy for a new way of naval warfare and is arguably himself responsible for that revolution. It was he who sheparded the construction and thus feasibility of the HMS Dreadnought.
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Although in retrospect listing armor as optional was a bit of a mistake, battlecruisers were still quite good at obsoleting smaller cruisers and a reasonable fit for their job.
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Jan 7, 2016 15:17
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Pvt.Scott posted:Is it really all that innovative to keep the paint clean by not getting it dirty in the first place? Are there little artificial reefs you can go visit now where British ships were conducting firing drills by dumping their quota of shells overboard? Imagine all of that brass! (or other metal) Very few naval shells would have any brass, as the powder is loaded separately in bags for the main guns. Maybe guns less than 8" would have cartridges?
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Jan 7, 2016 15:21
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Speleothing posted:Very few naval shells would have any brass, as the powder is loaded separately in bags for the main guns. Maybe guns less than 8" would have cartridges? For the RN, there's a super easy way to tell. BL means it's bagged powder, QF means it's using cartridges.
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oscarthewilde posted:Isn't that exactly what happened to Jackie Fisher? For all his faults and critics, some quite deserved, he managed to properly prepare the Royal Navy for a new way of naval warfare and is arguably himself responsible for that revolution. It was he who sheparded the construction and thus feasibility of the HMS Dreadnought. Also submarines, aircraft carriers, torpedoes.
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oscarthewilde posted:Isn't that exactly what happened to Jackie Fisher? For all his faults and critics, some quite deserved, he managed to properly prepare the Royal Navy for a new way of naval warfare and is arguably himself responsible for that revolution. It was he who sheparded the construction and thus feasibility of the HMS Dreadnought. He did in 1854, so 5 years before the first armour clad ship was launched.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:28
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Pvt.Scott posted:Is it really all that innovative to keep the paint clean by not getting it dirty in the first place? Are there little artificial reefs you can go visit now where British ships were conducting firing drills by dumping their quota of shells overboard? Imagine all of that brass! (or other metal) Polishing watertight doors to the point where they're no longer watertight is pretty creative. More to the point, yeah, there was lots of technological advancements in Britain between the Napoleonic wars and WW1, but the amount of institutional knowledge that was lost, such as the importance of independent thought and action amongst the officers, was much worse and cost them dearly.
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Okay school is starting soon, we won the war and got Liaotung. I will close the thread and see about getting 1900-1925 archived.
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