Warship Appreciation Thread

[Husky_Khan]

Wait what

Okay I will give you the "official" explanation Comrade.

Dems apologize for using Russian warships in convention tribute to vets

Democrats apologied Wednesday for using a fleet of Russian warships as the backdrop for a Democratic National Convention tribute to U.S. military veterans, blaming a vendor for the mistake.

www.foxnews.com

In their tribute to American veterans back in the 2012 Democratic National Convention our ideological kin within the Democratic Party used graphics of the Russian Navy to salute and honor during said tribute in lieu of their own decadent mercenary US Armed Forces.

 

[Sailor.X]

Okay I will give you the "official" explanation Comrade.

Dems apologize for using Russian warships in convention tribute to vets

Democrats apologied Wednesday for using a fleet of Russian warships as the backdrop for a Democratic National Convention tribute to U.S. military veterans, blaming a vendor for the mistake.

www.foxnews.com

In their tribute to American veterans back in the 2012 Democratic National Convention our ideological kin within the Democratic Party used graphics of the Russian Navy to salute and honor during said tribute in lieu of their own decadent mercenary US Armed Forces.

Ain't I a skinker.

 

[Aaron Fox]

You've also got to remember that modern warships, in all practicality, literally look the same to the uninitiated. I'm serious here.

Warships pretty much look the same anymore because there is only a literal handful (with fingers leftover) of ways to build and design a modern warship. It isn't surprising that all ships are looking like Zulmwalts and Burkes as a general rule.

 

[Captain X]

So, like, maybe they should have asked someone.

 

[Aldarion]

 

[Aaron Fox]

A video on Admiral King.

 

[Spartan303]

This guy's channel is pretty good. Here is his video of the Kirov.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

This guy's channel is pretty good. Here is his video of the Kirov.

Meh needs more big guns. I mean for heavens sake it doesn't even have the equivalent of a MK.71 8" gun

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Speaking of the event where Britain committed naval suicide, here is a reddit artist's impression of the G3 battlecruiser. We were to build four of them, and they would essentially be "fast battleships." Roughly fifty thousand tons with nine 16inch guns and a top speed of 32 knots, she'd have been perhaps the most powerful warship of her time.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Speaking of the G3s the UK almost actually got a pair of them built due to the US and Japan mistaking the 8" deck armor plate order for the belt armor. Can you imagine the butterflies in WWII?

 

[Sailor.X]

Don't you FFing Dare Godzilla. If you try we will beat you to death with every Dogging Wrench in the Galaxy!!!!

 

[Bear Ribs]

Speaking of the event where Britain committed naval suicide, here is a reddit artist's impression of the G3 battlecruiser. We were to build four of them, and they would essentially be "fast battleships." Roughly fifty thousand tons with nine 16inch guns and a top speed of 32 knots, she'd have been perhaps the most powerful warship of her time.

Is it just me or does this ship have a turret pointed straight at it's own superstructure?

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Is it just me or does this ship have a turret pointed straight at it's own superstructure?

Amidships centerline turrets were not uncommon in "mid-era" dreadnought battleships, as the designs heavily emphasized broadside fire and did not view end-on fire as very important.

 

[Zachowon]

Is it just me or does this ship have a turret pointed straight at it's own superstructure?

There is a whole French battleship class that iirc has one or two in the middle

 

[ShadowArxxy]

There is a whole French battleship class that iirc has one or two in the middle

France built relatively few dreadnought battleships at all -- the Dunkerque and Richeliu classes were their entire fleet for WWII, and during WWI they had the Courbet and Bretagne classes. Courbet had two wing turrets, in the middle but not centerline like the G3's; Bretagne had a centerline amidships turret. So Bretagne is the one that best matches your recollection, but maybe not because it's a very obscure class.

The Dunkerque and Richelieu classes both had two four-gun turrets in an all-forward configuration and the superstructure set far back. These classes thus had a turret that was physically in the middle of the ship, but they did not have a turret that was in the middle of the superstructure.

 

[Zachowon]

France built relatively few dreadnought battleships at all -- the Dunkerque and Richeliu classes were their entire fleet for WWII, and during WWI they had the Courbet and Bretagne classes. Courbet had two wing turrets, in the middle but not centerline like the G3's; Bretagne had a centerline amidships turret. So Bretagne is the one that best matches your recollection, but maybe not because it's a very obscure class.

The Dunkerque and Richelieu classes both had two four-gun turrets in an all-forward configuration and the superstructure set far back. These classes thus had a turret that was physically in the middle of the ship, but they did not have a turret that was in the middle of the superstructure.

The Normandie class

 

[ShadowArxxy]

The Normandie class

Those were not listed in the sources I looked up because they were never actually completed. They did, however, pioneer the quadruple turret design that was carried forward into Dunkerque and Richelieu, and were specifically designed to avoid having an amidships-in-superstructure turret, which the French had concluded was unsatisfactory due to their experience with Bretagne .

 

[Zachowon]

Those were not listed in the sources I looked up because they were never actually completed. They did, however, pioneer the quadruple turret design that was carried forward into Dunkerque and Richelieu, and were specifically designed to avoid having an amidships-in-superstructure turret, which the French had concluded was unsatisfactory due to their experience with Bretagne .

There was also the Lyon class, again never built but planned

 

[PsihoKekec]

 

[Harlock]

I suppose this one is part navy part air corps appreciation

Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid. The angle that bomber is climbing at looks a little hair raising