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LudicrousSpeedGo said:
My original question about the Mk 60 stands: can the Bones [BelBat canon] air drop CAPTORs from USN ready magazines to pen up Atomic Battlecruiser Princess (assume they level out as mercury fulminate mines and/or TBFs with Mk 13s), until Big T and associates can deal with them?

Wikipedia seems to show its possible:
Mark 60 CAPTOR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Biggest problem with the Mark 60 CAPTOR is that it has a tiny warhead, the torpedo it uses the Mark 46 Torpedo is designed to kill submarines, granted a Mark 46 would be lethal even to today's ships because they don't have a torpedo belt, because they are designed to no get hit in the first place. The Abyssal Warships do have torpedo belts, given the tiny size of the warhead in terms of weight, 97 pounds, but given how much boom the warhead has, about 200 pounds I think or in that general area. It might be powerful enough to crack open the torpedo belt on the Atlanta. However I just don't know if it could crack open the torpedo belt on a Lexington class Battlecruiser. Now, your best chance for this occurring is the torpedo striking the ship right in the screws, that will warp the hell out of the propeller shaft and likely pop seals around those seals, flooding the prop alley. It was a hit just like that, which resulted in the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales. I mean I think the only thing that has a torpedo belt today are possibly the American Nimitz class Supercarriers, well they got a system to actually "hard kill" torpedoes, but even after reading the section several times I have no clue how it works. Also, I have no clue if it will work against Abyssal Fish. Still it's in a way, just like the counter-measure torpedoes from the T.V. Show Seaquest DSV.

The trick is getting close enough to drop your fish to do it. That's the biggest pain in the ass to do.
 
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theJMPer said:
Yeah, sail-girls are canon.

Also, you people are misunderstanding the leveling effect. The leveling effect doesn't mess with events, it messes with results. Sending strategic bombers against naval targets will work exactly as well now as it did in World War II.
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...so would redesignating B-52s as Torpedo Bombers or Patrol aircraft help, then? :rofl:
 
theJMPer said:
Yeah, sail-girls are canon.

Also, you people are misunderstanding the leveling effect. The leveling effect doesn't mess with events, it messes with results. Sending strategic bombers against naval targets will work exactly as well now as it did in World War II.
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Which equals incredibly useless! I mean the US Army Air Corps ran tests during WWII, they found that even with the Nordon Bombsight, trying to hit a moving target from like 20,000 feet while you are moving with a bomb, only about 1% of all bombs will actually hit. So in the Northern Princess Op, it was probably pure luck that the single GBU-28 actually hit was thanks to pure luck more than anything. However, I am surprised that the B-52s actually didn't play dive bomber. Not a stupid 70 degree death dive, but like a thirty degree powerdive or something like that. Because I read the novel Unbroken and I found out that the B-24 Liberator could actually Dive Bomb, so it stands to reason that if something like a B-24 can dive bomb then why can't B-52s, then again. I am a College Student not a Aeronautical Engineer and thus don't know if a B-52H can play dive bomber like the B-24.
 
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Thorthemighty said:
I am a College Student not a Aeronautical Engineer and thus don't know if a B-52H can play dive bomber like the B-24.
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Thor, if you don't know something, DON'T POST UNTIL YOU'VE LOOKED IT UP! This thread is not your google, and it's increasingly frustrating to have you ramble on without taking even the barest fraction of an instant to look things up before posting. Secondlly, being in college is not an excuse. You should know better by now, and there's a lot of people in this thread who can provide quality content despite being in school. (witness: me.)
 
Second witness. Flunked out of a welding degree four years ago. Working in minimum wage jobs since.
 
theJMPer said:
Secondlly, being in college is not an excuse. You should know better by now, and there's a lot of people in this thread who can provide quality content despite being in school. (witness: me.)
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Dude, the bit with I am a College Student not an Aeronautical Engineer is supposed to be a bit of a nod to various Star Trek episodes and movies were the Doctor says "I am a Doctor not a ...". It's supposed to be a joke. Not to mention, my google-fu has never been that good.
 
Dude, she's a shipgirl. They're all pretty.

Although they're all pretty in different ways. Wash is the most "inhuman perfection", although her slightly crooked nose gives her that human touch. Jersey's stunning, but there's a roughness to her features that couldn't quite be described as "beautiful."
 
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Well, Crowning goes into full English professor mode and searches the entire canon of English literature just trying to describe how beautiful he thinks Jersey is.

Everyone else just gets variations on the theme of daaamn.
 
JMPr, could you add the numbering back in the treadmarks? it makes it easier to recognise which are omakes and which are story posts.
 
theJMPer said:
Although they're all pretty in different ways. Wash is the most "inhuman perfection", although her slightly crooked nose gives her that human touch.
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N-No bully...

*faints from Wash overload*

ahem


USS Washington, second of the North Carolina-class battleships, could be considered to some to be some of the most beautiful warships ever constructed by mankind.

I disagree.

Washington, is, and always will be, the most beautiful ship I have ever seen. More than the later Iowas (sorry Wisky) and any of the previous standards, her graceful curved lines, her well-proportioned smokestacks, her bridge and her magnificent guns all add up to a battleship that lives up to her name, and looks as dignified, almost regal as a princess on an evening stroll on a perfect autumn day. She is beauty and power, strength and grace, kind and demure, strong and patient, adorable and as striking as the sixteen inch cannons she possesses.

And she has nine of them.

While some are overwhelmed by her feminine grace, I think just admiring her for her looks does her no justice. She's a wonderful young woman, a strong-willed lady who has nerves of steel and is as soft and gentle and understanding as God himself. She's wonderful.

And I think wonderful is too small a word for how much I love her, and how much I think she is just absolutely fantastic.
 
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wtdtd said:
You changed your image and title!
You no longer get to play Wash!
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Shhhhh. Let it happen.

I always was a sucker for reputations instead of looks. By which I mean, it doesn't matter if you're the prettiest thing in the universe, if you're an ass, I hate you. Destroyers with taller than life stories are great, but, depending on the rules here, I would prefer the company of the old salts,, like the fishing boats, or the Great Lakes Haulers (looking at you Edmund Fitzgerald). Who have all sorts of fish tales and salty sea stories, but that's because I'm weird.
 
Burning Baron said:
Shhhhh. Let it happen.

I always was a sucker for reputations instead of looks. By which I mean, it doesn't matter if you're the prettiest thing in the universe, if you're an ass, I hate you. Destroyers with taller than life stories are great, but, depending on the rules here, I would prefer the company of the old salts,, like the fishing boats, or the Great Lakes Haulers (looking at you Edmund Fitzgerald). Who have all sorts of fish tales and salty sea stories, but that's because I'm weird.
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...well Edmund and friends don't really tell sea stories, but whatever
 
Simon_Jester said:
Hey, I remember what TheJMPer said about not going overboard with the "military FUCK YEAH!" :D

Sailgirls with sonar sounds like a great idea; the big problem is, as always, exactly how do you go about 'refitting' a shipgirl? They seem to be 'born' as built, and naturally 'grow' capabilities more in line with their final refits. And girls that summon themselves seem to come out Kai Ni'ed (that is, in their final form, e.g. Texas having 20mm Oerlikons).

But if you want a shipgirl to exhibit a capability she never had as a steel (or wooden) hull, exactly how do you make that happen? We can give the girls cell phones, but how do we give them a towed sonar array?
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You have them tow a sonar linked to a buoy with a wireless data transmitter.
 
Dingdong said:
...well Edmund and friends don't really tell sea stories, but whatever
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She would have some storm stories though. Especially her last. I think the reason I enjoy stories is because my Grandpa has awesome non- or declassified stories from being an engineer with the 846th Test Group for over thirty years. Great stuff. That, and my dad the Fore Elevator Operator, Starboard on the Nimitz. They were trolls before there was an Internet.

EDIT: Case in point, he and his bunkmates sent a bunch of seasick sailors up to the fo'c'sle, telling them it would help, since it was steady. The forecastle of the ship is as far forward as one can go without actually leaving the hull. It moves the most.
 
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Icywinter said:
N-No bully...

*faints from Wash overload*

ahem


USS Washington, second of the North Carolina-class battleships, could be considered to some to be some of the most beautiful warships ever constructed by mankind.

I disagree.

Washington, is, and always will be, the most beautiful ship I have ever seen. More than the later Iowas (sorry Wisky) and any of the previous standards, her graceful curved lines, her well-proportioned smokestacks, her bridge and her magnificent guns all add up to a battleship that lives up to her name, and looks as dignified, almost regal as a princess on an evening stroll on a perfect autumn day. She is beauty and power, strength and grace, kind and demure, strong and patient, adorable and as striking as the sixteen inch cannons she possesses.

And she has nine of them.

While some are overwhelmed by her feminine grace, I think just admiring her for her looks does her no justice. She's a wonderful young woman, a strong-willed lady who has nerves of steel and is as soft and gentle and understanding as God himself. She's wonderful.

And I think wonderful is too small a word for how much I love her, and how much I think she is just absolutely fantastic.
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what about her sister...
 
Rampantfury said:
Sailors at Pearl Harbor once said North Carolina was the most beautiful thing they had ever seen.
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I doubt many of them had seen much of Nagato when they said that. The absolute aesthetic pinnacle of warship design was the Nagato-class, and anyone who disagrees can come and have a go.

Nagato isn't my ship-fu, (like to keep that one private) or my favorite ship in general, (It's hard to beat Enterprise. Doubt I would be here now if I hadn't watched History Channel documentaries about her as a kid) but damn if she isn't my favorite to look at. Not perfect, none are, but the sum of her parts are much nicer than the sum of anyone else's.
 
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