Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
i think he meant t cutting the taxes of RN and (UK armed force in general) personnel so they have an effective pay raise without really costing more
Warship Appreciation Thread
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PsihoKekec
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Doing the recruiting themselves, instead of subcontracting it to an agency that chases away potential recruits, might also help.
Aaron Fox
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That's still going to give some ugly precedent, sadly enough.
Seriously? That's a level of stupid that would be seen in fiction. Reality is unrealistic.
BF110C4
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Probably the optimists during Crossroads wanted to see if the torpedoes were detonated by the nukes, and the realists who were aware that they wouldn't hold the monopoly in atomic bombs were more interested in knowing if after the tests the guns and the stored munitions were still usable or if a recovered ship would need to dump its entire magazine to the ocean.
Ironically the pesimists were the winners during the tests, after all they shown that an enemy ship not hit by a direct impact would survive with just the right amount of exposure to do a suicide run after any american ship who nuke them and afterwards the ship would be too irradiated to be of any use even as scrap iron, death was the only winner in a nuclear naval battle.
Ironically the pesimists were the winners during the tests, after all they shown that an enemy ship not hit by a direct impact would survive with just the right amount of exposure to do a suicide run after any american ship who nuke them and afterwards the ship would be too irradiated to be of any use even as scrap iron, death was the only winner in a nuclear naval battle.
Aaron Fox
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Not really. The biggest reason that the ship was so radioactive was when they were washing it off with still-radioactive water because fallout wasn't that well understood at the time. If she (and other ships) were washed down with uncontaminated water and the leak that developed didn't happen, she (and others) would have been towed back and used as a museum (because the USN couldn't keep her running properly after the German crew left) or used as vessels of the fleet.
What crossroads showed was that naval vessels are stupidly tough against nuclear attacks. So much so that the USN would quickly end the use of anything nuclear outside of ASW warheads and strategics.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
The USS San Francisco comes to mind
Doomsought
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It is impressive just how catastrophic the damage a modern warship can sustain and still limp back home.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
Well, the front is the sensors (mostly sonar) dome, it's more crunchy and hermetically sealed from the rest of the sub.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
I wonder where they're doing to get another sonar set. Unlike the USS San Francisco back in the 2000s there aren't any sisterships being sent to the scrappers to provide one. Hopefully they have a spare somewhere
USN plays Peekaboo.
BF110C4
Well-known member
If she's lucky she might be modernized in the deal, not that is actually necessary at this point of her operational life.
bintananth
behind a desk
She was layed down roughly 29 years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if her reactor is older than the engineering officer responsible for operating it safely.
BF110C4
Well-known member
Yeah, but she had an important refit a few years ago and thankfully the reactor was not the damaged section.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
And the USN can't afford to lose any subs earlier than their planned decommissioning date if it wants to not have the numbers drop worse than they already will by the end of the decade(albeit they will start improving by the early 2030)
bintananth
behind a desk
That's not saying much.
My twin sis is a whore. She probably knows more about Nuclear Safety than most experts do.