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mirth

#2355
January 11, 2018, 12:35:18 PM
QuoteHMS Rodney's torpedo handling room, date unknown

"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

#2356
January 11, 2018, 12:37:50 PM
QuoteBattle Group Charlie centered on USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70) underway December 14, 1986


"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

#2357
January 11, 2018, 12:40:08 PM
QuoteHMS Agamemnon bombarding the Dardanelles Straits in WW1

"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

#2358
January 11, 2018, 12:43:56 PM
Interior of Italian Battleship Roma

(album at link - https://imgur.com/a/RSMpp)

"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

Windigo

#2359
January 11, 2018, 01:02:30 PM
Regarding pics of the Hood - man them are some ugly lines   :cowboy:
My doctor wrote me a prescription for daily sex.

My wife insists that it says dyslexia but what does she know.

mirth

#2360
January 11, 2018, 06:22:07 PM
Quote from: Windigo on January 11, 2018, 01:02:30 PM
Regarding pics of the Hood - man them are some ugly lines   :cowboy:

Funny you would say so as she was considered one of the best looking ships of her day.
"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

Windigo

#2361
January 12, 2018, 11:48:28 AM
Quote from: mirth on January 11, 2018, 06:22:07 PM
Quote from: Windigo on January 11, 2018, 01:02:30 PM
Regarding pics of the Hood - man them are some ugly lines   :cowboy:

Funny you would say so as she was considered one of the best looking ships of her day.

those turrets look like a cheese block after my 2nd wife cuts some off for a drunken late night snack
My doctor wrote me a prescription for daily sex.

My wife insists that it says dyslexia but what does she know.

Windigo

#2362
January 12, 2018, 11:50:56 AM
sweet lines everywhere

My doctor wrote me a prescription for daily sex.

My wife insists that it says dyslexia but what does she know.

mirth

#2363
January 12, 2018, 01:23:09 PM
"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

besilarius

#2364
January 13, 2018, 09:15:03 AM
Another fine - nayvul - day at the office.
Keep the water level up in the condensers and don't salt up the feed bottom.
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mirth

#2365
January 14, 2018, 09:35:40 AM








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This is a turret face from the Shinano's turrets before she was converted into a carrier. It was pierced at point blank range by the newest model US 16 inch Mark 7 gun. To quote Navweaps,

QuoteAt about 40,000 yards, the U.S. Navy 16"/50 firing a 16" Mark 8 Mod 6 AP projectile (the later Mod 7 and Mod 8 designs were post-WWII, so I usually do not count them and they were no better ballistically, to my knowledge) will hit at about 45° downward angle and 1607 feet/second (489.8 m/sec). Just as with a point blank hit at 2500 feet/second (762 m/sec) and 45° obliquity, this hit too will barely hole the plate as the projectile is hitting at 0° (normal) obliquity, though not completely penetrate it. Any slight barrel wear will lower the muzzle and striking velocities and no holing will occur at these or any other ranges, as mentioned. However, this is so far above any real fighting range (even with radar it is hard to see the target due to the earth's curvature interfering, especially in any kind of imperfect seeing conditions) that I do not even consider it in my computations, while putting the gun barrel up to almost touching the enemy turret is also a pipe dream in real life! Thus, no holing or complete penetrations, ever, though possibly some cracking of the plate and possible jamming of the turret if the crack-off plate piece is dislodged badly enough.

    Therefore, these plates are the only warship armor plates that could not be completely penetrated by any gun ever put on a warship when installed leaning back at 45°, as they were in the actual turrets!!! Even to completely hole the plate all the way through at that inclination requires a brand new 16"/50 Mark 7 or German 38cm SK C/34 gun at point-blank range firing the latest versions of their respective AP projectiles; it might be cracked at a lower striking velocity, but no hole put entirely through it! And they said guns had completely overmatched all armor - not so!!!


PDF of test results - http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a955281.pdf
"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

#2366
January 14, 2018, 02:45:03 PM
QuoteMartin T4M Torpedo bombers launching from the deck of the USS Lexington (CV-2), 1931

"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

#2367
January 14, 2018, 02:46:17 PM
QuoteUSS Flasher (SSN-613) slides down the launching ways at the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 22 June 1963

"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

#2368
January 14, 2018, 03:07:19 PM
QuoteHMS Warspite, Rodney, and Nelson at port at South Mole, Gibraltar Harbor - 1933



Same location today



"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

#2369
January 14, 2018, 03:08:47 PM
QuoteHMS Hood at John Brown and Co. Shipyard, 1919-1920.

"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
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