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Started by mirth, April 28, 2013, 09:07:45 AM

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GDS_Starfury

you just can make stuff up like this.  my guess is that it will be almost completed and then sold to the Chinese.

QuoteWashington: Iran is building a nonworking mock-up of an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that US officials say may be intended to be blown up for propaganda value.

Intelligence analysts studying satellite photos of Iranian military installations first noticed the vessel rising from the Gachin shipyard, near Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf, last summer. The ship has the same distinctive shape and style of the Navy's Nimitz-class carriers, as well as the USS Nimitz's No. 68 neatly painted in white near the bow. Mock aircraft can be seen on the flight deck.

The Iranian mock-up, which US officials described as more like a barge than a warship, has no nuclear propulsion system and is only about two-thirds the length of a typical 1,100-foot-long Navy (335 metre) carrier. Intelligence officials do not believe that Iran is capable of building an actual aircraft carrier.

"Based on our observations, this is not a functioning aircraft carrier; it's a large barge built to look like an aircraft carrier," said Commander Jason Salata, a spokesman for the Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain, across the Persian Gulf from Iran. "We're not sure what Iran hopes to gain by building this. If it is a big propaganda piece, to what end?"

Whatever the purpose, American officials acknowledged Thursday that they wanted to reveal the existence of the vessel to get out ahead of the Iranians.





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endfire79

maybe a theme park/hotel like they did with the old russkie carriers in China years ago? Weird.
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Windigo

those are pretty shitty welds on that thing
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Quote from: Windigo on March 24, 2014, 05:10:40 PM
those are pretty shitty welds on that thing

It probably wasn't built to, like actually... uh, float or anything.
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GDS_Starfury

Im not sure theyre even welds.
my bet is on Chinese gorilla glue.
Toonces - Don't ask me, I just close my eyes and take it.

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mirth

I kinda have to give the Iranians credit for even building something that shitty.
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Windigo

Quote from: mirth on March 24, 2014, 09:58:14 PM
I kinda have to give the Iranians credit for even building something that shitty.

its unbelieveably bad... it could even be stretched canvas, doped and painted ....
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how about a big-ass walrus sleeping on a Russian sub

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endfire79

lol nice find.

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endfire79

"I will return before you can say 'antidisestablishmentarianism'."

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his principles, his friends. The glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."

endfire79

"I will return before you can say 'antidisestablishmentarianism'."

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his principles, his friends. The glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

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mirth

Cuban Osa II missile boat, 1984.

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"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

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mirth

USS Santa Fe (CL-60) during Typhoon Cobra


"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

USS Cowpens (CVL-25) during Typhoon Cobra.

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus