Burning Baron
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Too long without botefus makes us go a little crazy.
Changing Destiny (Kancolle)
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Skywalker_T-65
Writer with too many ideas.
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<This guy is busy rereading the Destroyermen novels.
And by extension, finally writing that Amagi snip I've been talking about for the longest time.
And by extension, finally writing that Amagi snip I've been talking about for the longest time.
PAGDTenno
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Heh. Both of us. Although, for rather different reasons.
Appletank
Acquire Cheese
Idle thought:
Are turbo-electric drives going to be vaguely more respected in this timeline? Since I assume Thompson is going to be very careful about that torpedo that shorted out Saratoga (ONLY ONCE) and somehow soured it for everyone.
Also, @Skywalker_T-65
Do you, uh, not check your PM's often?
Are turbo-electric drives going to be vaguely more respected in this timeline? Since I assume Thompson is going to be very careful about that torpedo that shorted out Saratoga (ONLY ONCE) and somehow soured it for everyone.
Also, @Skywalker_T-65
Do you, uh, not check your PM's often?
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Sky you hyped for Devil's Due?
Burning Baron
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I'd probably be more hyped if Taylor Anderson's website was working.
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Come to the destroyermen fan association Facebook page.
PAGDTenno
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Everyone is hyped for Devil's Due.
Sir_Gaea
More Stories Please
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Because Sky is going to be a History Teacher.
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I'm not hyped for Devil's Due. I actually dont know what Devil's Due is.
Sakuya's Butler
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I live 15min south of the USA/Canada border *waves from Bellingham*
I can confirm, those aren't mountains. They aren't even hills.
Those are glorified mole mounds.
Grounders10
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Hello neighbour.
Burning Baron
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A book, the latest of a series, about the toughest Wickes-class destroyer ever, and her plucky crew having adventures in the Southeast Asian area, only not.
PAGDTenno
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It's all in perspective.
To me, it just looks like they have a trash problem, because the only hill-like things we have in FL are landfills.
CV12Hornet
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Respected? Perhaps. Used? Definitely not.
PAGDTenno
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The advantages over shaft transmission don't pan out in the real world, given the tech of the era. Especially not to a sufficient degree to justify the expense.
We've got much better tech now, and turbo-electric drive is under consideration for the Ohio-successor.
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Actually the advantages *did* pan out, they just weighed far too much once the WNT came into effect. TE was used to great effect in many DEs, specifically the Buckley class. TE was seriously considered for every US battleship design through the Montana's but it would have been too expensive to develop the new machinery by the time BB-65 designs were being finalized.
Eliminate the WNT and TE would have remained the USN system of choice for all major combatants.
Eliminate the WNT and TE would have remained the USN system of choice for all major combatants.
PAGDTenno
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Turboelectric Drive in American Capital Ships
Found an article. It was a combination of weight and cost that killed turbo-electric transmission.
TL,DR: The higher cost of turbo-electric transmission, given Depression-Era budgets, is a major strike against it.
Found an article. It was a combination of weight and cost that killed turbo-electric transmission.
TL,DR: The higher cost of turbo-electric transmission, given Depression-Era budgets, is a major strike against it.
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Good article, I will point out however that from Friedman the USN was willing to pay the increased cost for the advantages that turbo-electric gave them in terms of subdivision and layout, but couldn't marry turbo-electric with an effective and balanced ship design under the limits of the treaty. Turbo-electric always survived the cost considerations only to be (very reluctantly) shelved in favour of the lighter geared options at the 'now we have to get the design to fit the damn treaty' stage of design.
Sir_Braazmiir
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Then why not pull out of the treaty?
Because then you start a cascade effect from other nations that were signatories (like Britain) of "well, if they're pulling out of the treaty why should we stay in it and be hamstrung?"
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Burning Baron
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Which would restart the naval arms race it stopped.
PAGDTenno
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Well. Maybe. The US was really the only nation capable of fully building their fleet to their pre-treaty plans, fiscally speaking. It's why the other signatories were even willing to negotiate the treaty.