Warship Appreciation Thread
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Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
Hood was sunk by fluke effectively, and Bismarck’s green gunners would agree with that statement.
I'm just having fun with ya.
A much newer American BB suffered massive injury during the Leyte gulf. Where it couldn't shoot back and was a sitting duck
USS South Dakota suffered extensive but entirely superficial damage with zero penetration of her armor belt after her electrical systems were knocked out by a technical failure (on a brand new ship that had been rushed into service without proper working up), and the situation turned around because the Japanese became so stupidly target fixated that they managed to let another American battleship sneak attack them.
The fact that BATTLESHIP managed to pull a sneak attack shows how awesome that battle was
Yep, and USS Washington absolutely wrecked the *shit* out of Kirishima with an absolutely decisive demonstration of the U.S. Navy's best-in-the-world fire control. She straddled Kirishima with her very first salvo, scored a solid hit on the second salvo, and then an unheard-of six hits on the third salvo. In all, Washington scored twenty hits out of seventy-five main caliber-rounds fired, and utterly destroyed Kirishima in seven minutes flat -- and that was with mistakenly ceasing fire for a minute thirty seconds after her fourth salvo, because Kirishima was hit and burning so badly already that it was erroneously reported she was sinking.
This was one of the most impressive displays of crack battleship gunnery ever.
One of the last BB on BB fights to ever happen
USS Kamehameha which was the last of the '41 for Freedom' Fleet Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines built between 1959-1967.
Forty one boats built across five different classes with the above one serving for almost thirty seven years in service, the longest of any nuclear powered submarine. It spent its final years of active service as a Special Operations boat which... according to the comments in the tweet, meant it had onboard hot tubs for those chilly arctic scuba dives!
These boats were succeeded by the eighteen boats of the Ohio-class Ballistic Missile Submarines which were constructed between 1976 and 1997, all of which are still in active service.
Forty one boats built across five different classes with the above one serving for almost thirty seven years in service, the longest of any nuclear powered submarine. It spent its final years of active service as a Special Operations boat which... according to the comments in the tweet, meant it had onboard hot tubs for those chilly arctic scuba dives!
These boats were succeeded by the eighteen boats of the Ohio-class Ballistic Missile Submarines which were constructed between 1976 and 1997, all of which are still in active service.
The "41 For Freedom" were an absolutely stunning achievement in terms of production volume, considering all forty-one SSBNs were built in just seven years.
Some of the recent military naming conventions have been woke and cringe, including with Navy Ships, but even though I can't recall him having any connection with the military, I think it's awesome the US Navy named a ship after the recently deceased Friends actor Matthew Perry.
The USNS Matthew Perry is a Lewis and Clark class dry cargo vessel and part of the US Navys Military Sealift Command Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force and supports the US Pacific Fleet with underway replenishment. It's standard crew is over a hundred civilian mariners and several dozen military personnel.
The USNS Matthew Perry is a Lewis and Clark class dry cargo vessel and part of the US Navys Military Sealift Command Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force and supports the US Pacific Fleet with underway replenishment. It's standard crew is over a hundred civilian mariners and several dozen military personnel.
USS Texas in drydock.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
What a fine old warrior. She’s the last super dreadnought of the Great War, as I understand.
Afloat, yes. USS Arizona and USS Utah are both of the same era.
She is.
And is a testament to that age
In memory of the USS Mullinnex.
It's sinking lead to the advance warhead that are now entering NATO weapons. Yes 30 plus year old tech is now being said to be brand new tech. This sinkex was done in the Carribbean test range south of Puerto Rico. Where DOD test all of it's weapons people think get tested at Area 51.
It's sinking lead to the advance warhead that are now entering NATO weapons. Yes 30 plus year old tech is now being said to be brand new tech. This sinkex was done in the Carribbean test range south of Puerto Rico. Where DOD test all of it's weapons people think get tested at Area 51.
Seems like a pretty entry level type of YouTube military channel but I like the weird generic voiced narration and scripting and mega list formation. It sounds like someone reading a Wiki article.
Still makes nice background viewing.
Also not sure how accurate it is. Some of the comments dispute it but the video is talking about sinking of naval vessels not just ships in general.
Still makes nice background viewing.
Also not sure how accurate it is. Some of the comments dispute it but the video is talking about sinking of naval vessels not just ships in general.
The video is talking about naval vessel singings, but the "total ships sunk by her" count shown at the end is ships in general and is counting shared kills as if each vessel scored them individually, which greatly inflates the kill count of the "twins" Scharnhorst and Gneisenau which pretty much always operated together.
In reality, the twins put together sunk three "proper" warships (the carrier HMS Glorious and the destroyers HMS Ardent and HMS Acosta) and one auxiliary (HMS Rawalpindi).
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
How not to park a ship.
