Dirtnap
Kanmusu Affecionado
Yes but her working parts, turrets, secondary mounts and all were stripped to restore Iowa and Jersey for desert storm.
She certainly still looks pretty though.
Belated Battleships (KanColle) [REHOST]
- Thread starter theJMPer
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She certainly still looks pretty though.
SeaSirocco
Formerly 'Sanae Aran' / Aspiring Artist
- Location
- The Seaside
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm pretty sure that move is physically impossible, as awesome as it was.
Also, Merry Christmas y'all!
Harry Leferts
Suave Shadow Cabal Kaiju
Merry Christmas everyone from the Great White North:
- Location
- USA
Oh I know it's impossible, I'm just asking if Mo' will try it anyways.
Edit: Shipgirls are not known for thinking things through. And given that Iowa is a bit of a ditz and Jersey is Jersey... Odds are Mo' will have a similar personality.
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- Location
- 'Murica
She's prepared for Hiei's cooking.Yes, they tend to be rather prominent on the larger vessels as garters, belts and other... accessories.
Also: Merry Christmas Mutsu!
Anchor is around her ankle in this outfit...
- Location
- Nowhere
See, that's what I thought.Yes. The real USS Wisconsin is sitting prettily in Norfolk, Virginia, and the USS Iowa is in Los Angeles (Des Moines being rather hard for her to get to.). Go visit!
Yeah. At best it would have damaged the bow. At worst it would have ripped it clean off
PAGDTenno
Verified Warmind. Probably on fire.
- Location
- South Carolina
Nah. The retaining pin holding the anchor chain to the capstan is a much more likely failure point. Or the anchor will just drag a trench through the sand.
- Location
- Minot, North Dakota
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all! (Courtesy of uss Macon and the interwar navy)
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Skywalker_T-65
Writer with too many ideas.
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- United States
- Pronouns
- Plural/They/He/Her
Christmas Sara a cute
Nicholas
No longer teaching battlethings on a battleship
- Location
- Ashore again
- Pronouns
- He/Him
It's true the Navy never confirms or denies that ships carry nuclear weapons, but we're pretty sure Iowa carried them in the 50s: we had a veteran on board who worked in projectile storage who remembers Marines stationed in his workplace. The only reason Marines would be in the main turrets would be to guard something. What would they be guarding? Katies!
North Carolina, Alabama, and Massachusetts already had most of their working parts ripped out to get the Iowa's operational in the 80s. With the Navy needing the Iowa's yet again, most likely they don't exist anymore -- cut apart for spare parts for the Iowa's. Realistically speaking, Iowa herself would be similar: maybe enough exterior to go back to being a museum, but the interior is completely gutted.
I've said before that using the anchor to stop the ship is like gripping the road with your hands to try and stop your car. Realistically speaking unless the anchor scrapes the ship as it's being dropped, the only thing it will affect is the anchor itself.
PAGDTenno
Verified Warmind. Probably on fire.
- Location
- South Carolina
I doubt there are any spare parts left, to be honest. Or at least useful ones, since most of the spares would be for the Mark 6 rifle, the smaller engines, etc.
Maybe rammers and the like for the 5/38s, but the barrels of those -if they haven't been demilitarized - are likely too far gone from corrosion to be useful.
Honestly, the required spares would probably have to be built anew. Wonder if B&W still has the designs in a drawer somewhere...
YuffieK
(Verified Ninja Princess)
Either that, or spontaneous outbreaks of BURNING LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!
Or she's the mature, sensible one. She's flabbergasted and frustrated by her sisters.
Nicholas
No longer teaching battlethings on a battleship
- Location
- Ashore again
- Pronouns
- He/Him
If I remember correctly:
Iowa is the bored troll
Jersey is Jersey
Missouri is the movie starlet
Whisky is the weeb
Personally I always see Iowa as the sensible one: Both the class leader and the one that carried presidents.
Jersey is so anticommunist because she served the most against them: 4 battle stars in Korea (verses Iowa's 2) as well as service in Vietnam.
Missouri is definitely the movie star/ singer. I've always seen her and Jersey having a rivalry: Jersey is more decorated, but Missouri is more famous.
Wisconsin is of course the cheese weeb; the American Haruna.
Iowa is the bored troll
Jersey is Jersey
Missouri is the movie starlet
Whisky is the weeb
Personally I always see Iowa as the sensible one: Both the class leader and the one that carried presidents.
Jersey is so anticommunist because she served the most against them: 4 battle stars in Korea (verses Iowa's 2) as well as service in Vietnam.
Missouri is definitely the movie star/ singer. I've always seen her and Jersey having a rivalry: Jersey is more decorated, but Missouri is more famous.
Wisconsin is of course the cheese weeb; the American Haruna.
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Rajvik_wolfboy
Wolf amongst the stars.
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- Florida
Honestly yes, I believe they do. I do believe that it is a part of the building contract that the companies that produce the parts for military hardware are required to keep a master copy of specs and designs for every system they build for the DiD. Now they are likely on microfiche or microfilm, but they are stored Im pretty sure.
Gearhead
Who, me?
Of course, the industry required to build such things is also a bit on the thin side.
- Location
- San Diego
try non existent. there is no factory in the world that has the knowledge to make parts for weapon systems built in the 1940's.
Burning Baron
This position needs more entrenching.
- Location
- In here, not out there.
False. There are companies making bank reproducing weapons from then. Such as STG44s and M1 carbines. But for larger machines, that's correct.
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- Minot, North Dakota
Just depends on the parts. A lot of smaller parts would be able to be manufactured more quickly through the use of CNC machining. Other items might have to be manufactured the old way, but there are many skilled machinists in this country who would be up to the challenge. Some things would require the actual tooling to be made to make the parts, but that is hardly impossible. The U.S. may not have the numbers of manufacturing facilities and shipyards that we had in 1944, but we didn't have those facilities in 1939 either. Demand will lead to production. It just takes a couple of years to spin it up.
Nixeu
Lord of Madness, Harbinger of Llamas
- Location
- Your nightmares.
The M1911 would like a word with you. Yes, I know it wasn't invented in then 1940's, but it was being produced, which is within your parameters.
Burning Baron
This position needs more entrenching.
- Location
- In here, not out there.
Yes, that too. I'm actually cleaning mine at the moment.
- Location
- Minot, North Dakota
We aren't talking about the pyramids or stonehenge. Enough examples of most things are available for reverse engineering, if the schematics aren't available. The people who worked on the assembly lines are old but some are still in good enough shape to give advice. How much information is available online just because of re-enactors research or gamers research? Imagine how much could be found with the dedicated effort of the USN and American industry?
Nixeu
Lord of Madness, Harbinger of Llamas
- Location
- Your nightmares.
I mean...we could probably make those, too, if we wanted. We do have the examples to work from. Something like the Colossus of Rhodes, on the other hand, would be a much less accurate reproduction.
As for building new Battleships, we could probably scrape by with parts that might not 100% match, but are close enough. Hell, we could probably do fine with any sort of mechanism for the internals that does what we need it to. While the infrastructure is a bit of a bugger, the infrastructure isn't impossible. It'd just be expensive.