Heh, QM 2 is bigger than Musashi but can maintain 30 knots long enough to cross the Atlantic. I think that's something a runner like Jersey would appreciate
She's an ocean liner, thank you very much
Seriously though, she's not a cruise ship, she's actually designed for oceanic travel which entailed some compromises in her design.
Jersey: Yeah, and? They're fatasses. All lard and no muscle. C'mon, you people don't seriously think I'd be jealous, do you?Hey, what's Jersey's view of cruise ships? A lot of them are more massive than she is
Jersey: I never claimed my ass was the biggest. Just that it's the best.That you don't have the the biggest assets on the sea.
... in hindsight, that was a dumb idea.
They just haven't had to transport troops like the old ones did. We have cargo/passenger airplanes for that now.
OK, your first one was better.
Now you've made Queen Mary 2 sad
I'm not kidding, she's actually an Ocean Liner, not a cruise ship. She was expressly designed for high speed transoceanic crossings and has the features of an Ocean Liner rather than a cruise ship, and she makes frequent and regular transoceanic crossings. I mean, they cost an arm and a leg so they're not really for getting from point A to B cheaply, but she still pulls the same role that her predecessors did for decades. Montana was actually ordered...
Kentucky: Don't know about Illinois, but not only was I 3/4ths finished, My bow has been in service for decades. I guess it's kinda like being a chimera in humans.
200% Lewd.
Well, if we're going with that route, then all American warships should be able to equip themselves with 3"-50cals. These reached the prototype stage before the end of WW2, and the development was on the fast-track anyway. They became common fittings on a number of US warships in the decades that followed. A small number are still in service aboard US warships that were sold to foreign countries.
Heh, no other nation would've been able to sustain those things in heavy combat other than the US; the rounds used required tons of cartridges that was beyond the capability of others to actually manufacture, especially with the rate those things fired. There's a video of them out there.... Give me a second, I'm going to dig it up.
Yet still misses 10% of the enemy. (going by kamikaze success rates, the late-war opponent for these newer AA systems we're talking about.)
90% kill rate's still pretty solid. And pitting them against Kamikaze isn't completely fair. They're much harder to stop than convential air attacks, since Kamikaze are basically just misses with an unorthodox terminal guidance system. (And Abyssals haven't been deploying Kamikazes)
Er, no? The weapon I mentioned never saw service in time to see action against kamikazes.
Wh-
Excuse me while I go find a coffee shop open at this hour, I clearly need some more Java.
So... the ocean liners did good honest work, but modern cruise ships are floating prostitutes?
That's a tad nonsensical. The 3-inchers were specifically designed because the 40mm Bofors were not sufficient for reliably stop-killing kamikazes before impact. Additionally, the 3-inchers put out an amazing amount of firepower at an impressive speed--almost one VT-fuzed shell per second--at a significantly greater range.
