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LordSunhawk said:
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Never heard it put that way before, but the problem with that is, that B-1s turn like an old car missing three wheels. Which is to say, they will be lucky to pull out of the dive. Especially after being shot at. And as for the whole stealth thing, Doppler Effect is still a thing. I may not be an aeronautical engineer, but I have lived next to an AFB my entire life. The Zoomies, regardless of how fast they're going, even over Mach 1, can still be heard, because of the noise of the sonic boom. And these are F-22s and -16s, and they're kind of easy to pick out of the southern New Mexico sky. A B-1, over the ocean, I'd imagine, is probably easy as well, though I don'tknow for sure..
 
Burning Baron said:
Never heard it put that way before, but the problem with that is, that B-1s turn like an old car missing three wheels. Which is to say, they will be lucky to pull out of the dive. Especially after being shot at. And as for the whole stealth thing, Doppler Effect is still a thing. I may not be an aeronautical engineer, but I have lived next to an AFB my entire life. The Zoomies, regardless of how fast they're going, even over Mach 1, can still be heard, because of the noise of the sonic boom. And these are F-22s and -16s, and they're kind of easy to pick out of the southern New Mexico sky. A B-1, over the ocean, I'd imagine, is probably easy as well, though I don'tknow for sure..
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What if they paint them like TBFs or SBDs from WWII? Wouldn't that make them somewhat harder to spot?
 
Thorthemighty said:
What if they paint them like TBFs or SBDs from WWII? Wouldn't that make them somewhat harder to spot?
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A B-1B is several orders of magnitude larger than a TBF.

Also there is no time to camo paint it.

Edit: A B-1B is nearly four (4) TBFs long and three (3) TBFs wide (i.e. wingspan).
 
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Thorthemighty said:
What if they paint them like TBFs or SBDs from WWII? Wouldn't that make them somewhat harder to spot?
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No. Not only no, but Hell No. That makes zero sense, even in the context of this fanfiction.

You considered the possibility that painting a massive aircraft blue, like the absolutely not stealthy US Navy strike craft of the second world war, would contribute in any way whatsoever to making said massive aircraft any less harder to spot.
Lurk more Thor. Just... lurk more.
 
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Vietnam camo please.

EDIT: Actually, something like bare metal finishes in the early days of SAC.
 
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This chapter was just awesome. Really awesome. From the grim grasp of despair to the shining hope of the sun and the stars.

Yeah I'm feeling poetic. :p

And divebombing B-1's decked out in WWII camo? Yes please.
 
It would be fun if anti-Sara's course toilet a little to close to Havana and aroused the spirit of the ship whose sinking lead to the Spanish-American war. That's right U.S.S. Maine ACR -1 stop her cold for the simple reason of disturbing her retirement. Bonus points if the U.S.S. Olympia is dragged along for the ride. Also when they try to get Alabama to return the get the confederate commerce raider instead.
 
Red october20k said:
It would be fun if anti-Sara's course toilet a little to close to Havana and aroused the spirit of the ship whose sinking lead to the Spanish-American war. That's right U.S.S. Maine ACR -1 stop her cold for the simple reason of disturbing her retirement. Bonus points if the U.S.S. Olympia is dragged along for the ride. Also when they try to get Alabama to return the get the confederate commerce raider instead.
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How would an old armored cruiser stop cold a battlecruiser built twenty five years after her sinking (even putting aside the WWII upgrades)?
 
U-511 had a wolf pack along? Ouch. I just hope the static defenses and surviving escorts are enough that the Panama Canal isn't put out of commission.

Although I find it surprisingly convenient that their was nothing in text for U-511 vs. Wiskey, pretty sure that means we'll be coming back to this in a future update somehow. (Wisky summoning scene flashback?)

It is cold to say it, but if we get out of this having lost Wisky but with both the oilfields and Panama canal having taken no (or almost no) damage, strategically it was worth it in face of what the Abyssals are throwing at us. That is the basic purpose of a combatant, to protect the non-combatants, in this case that meant Wisky taking the attack instead of the Canal. It is far from any sort of victory of course, but it wouldn't be a defeat either.

If we're able to sink Sara (or maybe the entirety of U-511's wolfpack) before this completes, I'd go as far as saying that it was a draw with neither side winning.

On the painting the B1's issue, really there is no point. Several years ago when stealth was the big thing, I remember reading an article that talked about how for an airplane to be stealthy you had to consider all detection profiles (radar, heat, and sight) and it talked about how they were actually experimenting with putting lights on aircraft as at a distance a plane's color doesn't matter as it will always appear black due to blocking the ambient light of the sky. Now the article was talking about modern day "distance", not WW2 era "distance", but considering the B1's speed I think it's relevant.

Still, the next few installments are going to be.. ah... energetic to say the least.

D.
 
The same way The U.S.S. Laffy challenged the Japanese battleship Hiei off Guadalcanal by targeting the bridge and super structure to try delay her for Texas to reinforce her. I realize that in all likely hood Maine is lost again but dammit she deserves to have a chance to prove herself in battle alters once. Instead of her fate being lost to an explosion.
 
Yuu-chan, daughteru, stop this silliness and come home. Your mother's been worried sick about you ever since you ran off with that goth gang. We know this is just a phase, and is why we still love you, Yuu. So please, come home.
 
I wonder how MSSB going to play this considering the B-1 has a service ceiling of over 20,000 feet beyond the maximum height of what a 5/38 can hit.
 
Spectre said:
I wonder how MSSB going to play this considering the B-1 has a service ceiling of over 20,000 feet beyond the maximum height of what a 5/38 can hit.
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Service ceiling is irrelevant. We learned in WWII that the higher you go, the less accurate your bombs are. High Altitude bombing against warships is basically impossible. That's why they're being used in a shallow dive.
 
Always Late said:
Service ceiling is irrelevant. We learned in WWII that the higher you go, the less accurate your bombs are. High Altitude bombing against warships is basically impossible. That's why they're being used in a shallow dive.
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maybe its just me but I'm not picture all that shallow of a dive.
 
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