history

[frigid karma]

ngl this skin goes hard

[shut wren]

I had the Siren camo from Third wave but never used em

[tough quail]

i can dig it

[maiden citrus]

I want that skin

[manic latch]

[little venture]

https://twitter.com/OnthisdayRN/status/1623558059200221188?t=LOX-RR5P-cStu2diRHkiPA&s=19

On This Day RN (@OnthisdayRN)

#OnThisDay 1945 @RoyalNavy submarine HMS VENTURER under the Command of Lt JS Launders DSC became the first ever submarine to sink another submarine while both were submerged. This famous name will return shortly as the first Type 31 Frigate, HMS VENTURER,
@RNSubMuseum

Twitter · Feb 9, 2023, 5:43 AM

[subtle prawn]

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2023/02/07/national/defense/Korea-Hanwha-Aerospace-K9/20230207184350465.html

[eternal veldt]

USS Constitution Undergoes Repairs While In Dry Dock at Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston on September 28, 1992.

• Photo credit David L. Ryan.

[manic latch]

CCTV published some interesting images of the inside strorage space of the Tengden TB-001D.
The heavy cargo UAV frame and its storage scale is clearly visible in detail

[manic latch]

Tato would be proud

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I3vAUFZ5Ug

[spring briar]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zj5U1xljkYc

[ivory ridge]

technically they didnt say anything new

[spring briar]

[manic latch]

British Bradley with 105mm turret

MPF would be jealous

[spring briar]

@maiden citrus

They did it again

[maiden citrus]

[spring briar]

The design itself is a sin

[tough quail]

you have my interest

elaborate

[frigid karma]

loli nelson?

[spring briar]

Yes

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/sir-george-thurston-cruiser-designs-type-abc/

[ivory ridge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669133963864047626/1073310861118160936/image.png

actual historical ship

even if copypaste

incredible

[frigid karma]

that camo is nice

the 305 thing?

6x305?

[spring briar]

Sure, but be honest

Does a british CB excite you?

[tough quail]

i like the beeg CAs a lot as is so that but more would be fun, sure

more importantly

it means brits can have a CB at all in AL

which would be nice

with how broken they made them imo each proper navy should get one, no questions

that said

manju could add it anyway like they added the p class/suruga/volga on their own volition

[frigid karma]

how does plymouth stack up to CB damage

[tough quail]

as long as there's a blueprint it should be fine

volga was fairly niche herself

also helps that the names are the easiest thing ever

because the royal navy just goes with whatever sounds cool

[frigid karma]

bomb from yt2 event

double fin stabilized bomb

[tough quail]

t7 super hell

[frigid karma]

Georgia and Musashi are their sugar mommies

[tough quail]

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/RoyalNavy/status/1623743537941737472

Royal Navy (@RoyalNavy)

HMS Warspite is the name of the third nuclear deterrence submarine!

Works on the Dreadnought-class strategic missile submarine are now underway as the first steel was cut at BAE Systems works in Barrow-in-Furness.

Twitter · Feb 9, 2023, 6:00 PM

[desert agate]

spoots back

[frigid karma]

They named her into a sub again

Kek

[desert agate]

lets hope this one has a much quieter career

[frigid karma]

Still salty about Prussia cove

[desert agate]

no im just not a fan of global conflict

tends to be a bad time especially now that weve got nukes

[frigid karma]

The joke is after spoot flipped off her scrappers and beached herself at Prussia cove

The admiralty takes their revenge by naming her after subs constantly

[tough quail]

and then gave her the power to wipe out a country

[spiral cedar]

“If I have to participate in a third world war, I’m making sure it’s the last one.”

[desert agate]

sticks and stones my friend

[frigid karma]

Naval lesbotic tendencies

Also fuck you discord, lesbotic is a real word

A bit of Fry and Laurie told me so

[junior trench]

sapphic is funnier

[spring briar]

Sapphic?

[spring briar]

Sappho of Lesbos

Right?

[junior trench]

yes

and her "friends"

[spring briar]

Nothing wrong with that

[junior trench]

I mean

you know me

that should go without saying

[tough quail]

[spring briar]

Anyways

Time for Iénaposting

[manic latch]

I want to headbutt it

[spring briar]

What

Why

[manic latch]

Looks headbuttable

Right here

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1623707125087182850

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

LAUNCH 'EM (1956) is a short unofficial film that circulated within the Naval Aviation community for years. Shot aboard USS Hancock, it features VF-121 acting like the Keystone Cops. Rumor is that Navy leaders ordered the film destroyed but it was bootlegged.
#ThrowbackThursday

Likes

219

▶ Play video

Twitter · Feb 9, 2023, 3:35 PM

[spring briar]

I suppose

[shrewd pecan]

https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/VBR_CAR

I bring a gift

[frigid karma]

This looks like a paper cutter

[shut wren]

a American Paper cutter

[ivory ridge]

truly one of the guns of all times

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1623824279484698624

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

Happy #NationalPizzaDay ! Pizza is a common Saturday evening meal on U.S. Navy ships. On aircraft carriers such as USS Ronald Reagan (CNV-76), the galleys need to prepare 1,250 pizzas to feed the entire crew.

Twitter · Feb 9, 2023, 11:20 PM

[rapid junco]

I remember a recent video made by an aviation channel on-board NAM Atlântico
He even joked like
"That's looks like an assembly line of pizza!"

[sullen canyon]

I get this feeling that someone ordered pineapple on their pizza, just because they could here

[tough quail]

i think thats in the constitution yeah

[sullen canyon]

It's a subtle way to annoy the Italians

[frigid karma]

i dont think italians even care anymore

[sullen canyon]

I'm guessing it's a meme then

[ivory ridge]

it is

[frigid karma]

breaking pasta will still trigger them though

[sullen canyon]

Funny thing, my mom is Italian and she does that because the noddles are too long

[frigid karma]

you're supposed to let them hang out a bit even if they're too long

because the pasta softens and lets the rest fall in

[jagged monolith]

https://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~jgl/nuosc_story.html
Super Kamiokande is more famous for its Proton Decay experiments in the public consciousness insofar one exists.
But it has made much more important discoveries. Like 25 years ago, when it discovered Neutrinos had mass.

[sullen canyon]

She prefers them not to be that long either so it's the best way to make sure you don't end up taking the entire spaghetti in one go of sorts

[ivory ridge]

mf is unable to bite

[frigid karma]

aren't you supposed to succ

[ivory ridge]

yes but if one is too long you fucking bite

hell, i started eating noodles recently

they are like

twice as long

as spaghetti

i dont see people complain about those now do you?

[shut wren]

C h o m p noodles

[frigid karma]

i mean

my mom always taught me to slurp up the whole thing, as biting it would make it fall and splash soup over the table

so i just got used to downing the whole thing, which is sometimes hard because some of them are like 2 feet long

[sullen canyon]

Yes, and if you do it wrong you can choke on the noodles too

[shut wren]

I just eat em raw

[spring briar]

Omg the USN feeds their crews??!??

[frigid karma]

yeah, it's a new thing

in the past the USN would just swap out the crew every 4 hours or so

[lavish fable]

oh dear someone had too much to eat during the holidays

[ivory ridge]

Goody ahh interceptor

This is literally a single engine delta wing tornado

[remote monolith]

so a couple questions based on this clip:
-what model of F-15s was Japan using in 2003?
-what is the actual procedure in case of a massive unidentified object being detected across an airspace?
-does interceptors move that close to the target for identification or not?
-if one of the interceptor pilots randomly heard singing while doing their task, how would the debriefing look like?

[shrewd pecan]

to my knowledge just the standard F-15J

Japan's F-15Js don't get their modernizations until 2003 anyways

[remote monolith]

aah ok

[ivory ridge]

in non combat interception they get real close yes

[remote monolith]

wouldn't modern sensor eliminate the need to do that even in non-combat situations? Or does pilots still do fly byes just to visually confirm it themselves?

[shrewd pecan]

visual confirmation of the target

[ivory ridge]

Italian F-35 Interception of a russian Su-27 near the baltics

[shrewd pecan]

it doesn't really matter since what is the average aircraft going to do against a pair of interceptors on their ass

[ivory ridge]

it's less for identification and more for "escorting them out"

lol

[shrewd pecan]

that as well

[remote monolith]

mm I see

[ivory ridge]

now for something completely different
https://i.redd.it/tdeud57ax7ha1.jpg

[tough quail]

Based

[frigid karma]

i thought this guy was ghoul

👀

[ivory ridge]

that's our todd

yes

he's back to changing monthly todd

[remote monolith]

this IS me

[tough quail]

prove it

how many skyrims do I own

[frigid karma]

no it isn't

[jagged monolith]

what the fuck

[remote monolith]

76 copies, don't deny it because I know, and not because I bugged your house

[frigid karma]

how many bugs wills tarfield have on launch

[tough quail]

85 copies like a true socialist

face the wall fraud

[remote monolith]

lies, this man is a communist, liar I say

[delicate beacon]

Funny for Bethesda to bug something

[ivory ridge]

bug deez

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/BritishArmy/status/1623701274242830337

British Army 🇬🇧 (@BritishArmy)

#Challenger3 has reached a new milestone.

Ahead of schedule, our industry partner @RBSL will now start building prototype vehicles after the announcement of the Critical Design Review.

Read more here 👉 https://t.co/UwoWUw9ipP

Likes

310

Twitter · Feb 9, 2023, 3:12 PM

[maiden citrus]

https://tenor.com/view/nose-fur-kawaii-sniff-canine-gif-20552016

[maiden citrus]

how nice

[alpine onyx]

precious

[spring briar]

@delicate beacon

[desert agate]

Lmfao

[chilly osprey]

https://twitter.com/Honer_CUT/status/1624043275521871883

Trent Hone (@Honer_CUT)

Latest project has arrived. It was a pleasure to work on this with a talented international team. Now available from @USNIBooks

https://t.co/UMgpAB6LZp

Twitter · Feb 10, 2023, 1:51 PM

Oh, man, I'm so looking forward to this

[spiral cedar]

Always love O’Hara and Hone

[rapid junco]

@ivory ridge
https://twitter.com/beto_caiafa/status/1623750775695462400

Roberto Caiafa (@beto_caiafa)

O primeiro Centauro 2 brasileiro em La Spezia com a 1@ Divisao das Mídias de Defesa!!!!

Likes

216

Twitter · Feb 9, 2023, 6:28 PM

[shrewd pecan]

So what’s the centauro 2 going to be replacing for Brazil?

[chilly osprey]

Probably some of their Leopard 1's?

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK6suAebD-M

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEk3ZPUKBI4

[frigid karma]

No fucking way

F-22 is 2-0 now

One balloon is all it needed to give it the appetite for blood

[shut wren]

Damn they got another balloon

[ivory ridge]

"We have no further details on the object, its origin, or capabilities. It was the size of a small car." - Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder

"The object was taken down by an F-22, using an AIM-9x AAM. No indication at this time the object was maneuverable. No obvious means of propulsion.

The object was physically observed by Air Force pilots, however, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder declined to say what the object looked like, whether it resembled a balloon, or how the determination was made that the object was unmanned. Gen. Ryder continues to refuse press questions to describe the object, only that it was "different" from the high-altitude balloon that was shot down last week. He reiterates this was an "object" not an aircraft. It was traveling in a northeasterly direction."

https://tenor.com/view/aliens-giorgio-conspiracion-memealiens-aliens-history-historychannel-gif-9621737

[shut wren]

So another balloon

Did they miss twice again

[frigid karma]

They didn’t miss the first time?

[shut wren]

They did

Twice

[frigid karma]

Footage I’ve seen just shows them launching a missile for a kill?

I’m not sure where they missed, did you mean they sent two F-15s up as spotters?

[shut wren]

Nah I remembered some footage I seen and I saw 2 lines of smoke before the one that blew up the balloon

Let me rewatch to be sure

[tough quail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLFc8sq5EIA

[frigid karma]

Please

Everyone knows it was

Le TIC TAC

[tough quail]

f-15s needing to spot for raptors is still the fucking funniest shit to me

i did not know raptors just didnt have irst and i feel less good about life knowing it

[frigid karma]

I mean it’s not like you could see it from the

Ground

[shut wren]

F-15 has like 100:0 kdr

[frigid karma]

….

This is raptor-chan’s first time though

[shut wren]

Raptor chan still learning

Let her be

[frigid karma]

F-15 just needed to give encouragement to her so she is comfortable with killing things

[shut wren]

F-15 got its advice from the phantom

I rewatched the thing and sure it was 2 misses

[frigid karma]

Rewatched it again, don’t see it

Are you sure that’s not the jet stream?

[shut wren]

Imma try it one more time

This shits confusing

[frigid karma]

One jet stream and one from missile

Unless they tried intercepting before the video everyone’s seen I can’t see two more streams

[shut wren]

I’ve seen theses two

Not an missile expert correct me if I’m wrong

[frigid karma]

Ok let’s move this to DMs

Those look photoshopped ngl

Especially since it came from that pineapple guy

[shut wren]

Pineapple guy lmaooo

[shut wren]

Yo these from different angles right

[rapid junco]

The Cascavel, probably

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EE-9_Cascavel

[shrewd pecan]

it’s apparently getting one

[tough quail]

wheeze

[shrewd pecan]

Only one AIM-9X was used and it shot down the balloon

[tough quail]

you'd think they'd realize that's a bit of a hole at least a decade sooner

[shrewd pecan]

It’s not really like it needed it

[rapid junco]

One of the ideas of having Centauro 2
Was that the HITFACT 120mm turret could be produced here and installed on the Leopards that were planned to be modernized
But seems the Army ditched the idea of producing the HITFACT

[shrewd pecan]

the thing dominated at every red flag until 35s started showing up

Green F-22 pilots going 151-1 against seasoned F-15 pilots doesn’t really show the need for a IRST

Beyond the IRST the F-22 lacks a lot of things it probably should of gotten through upgrade programs tbh

For example the thing doesn’t have a built in targeting pod and can’t take targeting pods

[tough quail]

I just have no idea how it was left out at all on the hyper expensive meme plane

[shrewd pecan]

mixture of the plane not really receiving upgrades for quite awhile alongside lack of perceived need

[strong plank]

From what I’ve read they’ve wanted to add it for a while, but troubles integrating it have held it back

[manic latch]

Usual First kills of American Fourth gen: Mig 21s

First kills of American Fifth gens: Balloon and drones

Future is lame

[shrewd pecan]

Personally I think it should of gotten a targeting pod during the several year span where it was the US’s only combat capable stealth aircraft that wasn’t a B-2

if only they went with the F-22/F-35 hybrid

[manic latch]

Just use F15 at this point

But yeah F22 balloon kills are likely PR move

[shrewd pecan]

I've heard nothing

about the F-15s being involved

[manic latch]

I heard F15E was there in first one

But no clue what it did

[shrewd pecan]

it wasn't present for the shootdown

could of been one of the aircraft observing it during its flight path

[shut wren]

Scout?

[shrewd pecan]

since nothing I can find

suggests F-15s were present for the shootdown

[strong plank]

They tracked the first balloon with U-2s

[strong plank]

If it was PR they would’ve used an F-35

[shrewd pecan]

🤨 nothing also suggests the USAF had missiles miss on the balloon beyond the Chinese propaganda crap mr 55 simp posted

[strong plank]

they sent raptors because they’re what’s used for air defense stateside

[shrewd pecan]

yeah

[shut wren]

they pay good

[strong plank]

Everything I’ve seen suggests the only 2 aircraft sent to shoot down the first balloon were 2 raptors

Frank 1 and Frank 2

[manic latch]

Nah F35s has a long future ahead and already had a drone kill by Israel? Or someone

But F-22? 0 kills for decades and was planned to be retired this decade or two

Retiring your wunderwaffe air superiority fighter without any air kill would look bad

[strong plank]

If they wanted publicity they’d use the shiny new aircraft that everyone’s buying

not the fighter they’ve had for decades

and it’s not wunderwaffe if it actually works

[shrewd pecan]

the thing has scored countless victories at red flag and other exercises

[shut wren]

Wunder waffles taste good

[shrewd pecan]

against everything from American F-15s to Indian Su-30s

[manic latch]

Also lost to A-10 in exercises. So don't know how they do those

[shut wren]

Man forgot his coffee

[shrewd pecan]

when your hosting multiple exercises every year

your going to have some embarrassing losses but that doesn't change the fact its 1-2 aircraft lost for 150+ kills

[manic latch]

I see

[strong plank]

“Wunderwaffe” implies something overhyped

[shut wren]

Screw up’s happen

[strong plank]

The raptor’s a good aircraft that never got its chance to shine because our chief adversary collapsed

[manic latch]

Isn't F22 massively hyped?

[shrewd pecan]

any assumption combat attrition will not happen to any aircraft is misguided

[manic latch]

Like what is the most hyped fighter more than F22? I'm sure it's NGAD

[shut wren]

You’ve got a new one

[manic latch]

J-20s will likely outlive Raptor

[shrewd pecan]

depends on how long raptors lifespan gets expended

since here's the thing about retirement dates

👁️ the aircraft usually massively outlive them if the A-10 and F-15 are prime examples of

[strong plank]

Also depends on if China can get their F-35 copycat to actually do what it claims to do

[manic latch]

F-45

I trust China because of their budget. Could be behind tech but they got the investment still

[strong plank]

Point is there’s a difference between an aircraft that can’t perform what it was advertised and trumpeted around as being able to do

and an aircraft that didn’t get the chance to show its stuff

[shut wren]

We still gotta pump our defense budget

[manic latch]

500 bil would be nice focus

[shrewd pecan]

I mean its not really like

Chinese aircraft are fairing that much better in combat experience either

[manic latch]

They share that data?

[shrewd pecan]

that's mainly because

[junior trench]

what data

lmao

[manic latch]

[shrewd pecan]

they aren't getting any combat experience

🤨 in fact the only aircraft rn getting Combat experience are MIG-29s and Su-27s facing off against Su-30s and Su-35s

[shut wren]

Let’s get some

[shrewd pecan]

and that's mainly just Su-35s flinging R-37s at Su-25s operating at the deck

[manic latch]

And uhh Awacs at borders

[shrewd pecan]

what is

a E-3 going to do

[manic latch]

It's getting the awacs experience or smh

[shrewd pecan]

when it cannot datalink with MIG-29s and Su-27s

[strong plank]

the E-3’s primary armament

the copilot’s 9mm

[manic latch]

Can AWACS be useful after earthquakes?

[shrewd pecan]

for controlling airspace probably

[manic latch]

[strong plank]

Yea directing and redirecting air traffic

[shrewd pecan]

temporarily replacing damaged ground infrastructure

[shut wren]

Alr guys wanna talk about alt history

I’m bored

[shrewd pecan]

yeah I want to talk about if Reagan took a shit on 1984 June 21st at 9 PM instead of taking a piss and how this would lead to the North American Union of new Albion

[shut wren]

It’s funny

[strong plank]

I’ve been finally getting into Neptune’s Inferno

[shut wren]

And interesting

[manic latch]

Isn't there a theory of if you calculate someone biology chemicals or someshit to perfect degree you could predict its future?

Ask it to quantum computer in 3 decades

[shrewd pecan]

who the fuck knows

[strong plank]

Also reading Technology and the American Way of War

[manic latch]

Greece pulled a big W with the help too

Should stabilize the tensions

[shrewd pecan]

idk I'm mainly just hoping it makes a opening between Sweden and Turkey regarding Swedens NATO membership

[shut wren]

It’s cool how all nations are helping out regardless of East or west

[strong plank]

It’s an opportunity for a good faith gesture yea

something like that could help cool things between those 2

[manic latch]

Yeah Be-200s were used to extinguishing fires on Port

Honestly, quite a sexy one

[shrewd pecan]

sorry Krem but I believe in Japan's take on a super Marlin

[shut wren]

Funny Russian thingy

[manic latch]

Props

For range?

Not a fan of them for emergency stuff ngl

[shrewd pecan]

there turboprops

[shut wren]

Nah props are more effective in fires n shit

[shrewd pecan]

why they went with props

idk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinMaywa_US-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Meiwa_US-1A

outside of Russia Japan is the only country that really pursues flying boats anymore

I guess China has this thing but

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIC_AG600

[shut wren]

Ayyy y-20

In the back

[manic latch]

Didn't China build the biggest boat plane not while ago

[shrewd pecan]

the BE-200 and the US-2s are really the only big remaining competitors

[manic latch]

Should have made the 747 boatplane too

Shame this girl retired

[spring briar]

Planes

[shrewd pecan]

what's the point

[manic latch]

Ask US. This was their idea

[shrewd pecan]

ah

I can't say fire rejfardant

[manic latch]

Shut

[shrewd pecan]

that's nice

[shut wren]

Spaag retired

[shrewd pecan]

that's not a SPAAG

that's a ATGM carrier

[shut wren]

My fault

It looked like the Zsu something

[manic latch]

[shut wren]

I forgot the first letters

[manic latch]

Zsu has 13 meter arm?

[shrewd pecan]

they had high hopes for the PARS-3

[manic latch]

Would be Overpowered in WT

Hide behind hill

Show the arm

[manic latch]

Fire and forget

[shrewd pecan]

yeah I hope its never added to warthunder

[shut wren]

Take the Ka-50

Over powers

[shrewd pecan]

🤨 at least the fucking Javelin equipped vehicles have to get direct line of sight for their missiles

[manic latch]

Challenger variant would be cursed too. Lucky they never had the prototype

[manic latch]

Say

Does vehicle has to stop?

[shrewd pecan]

I've devolved to just smacking KA-50s and other helicopters with the F-16s mavericks

[frigid karma]

No?

[shut wren]

Too poor to afford F-16 china

[shrewd pecan]

yesterday I killed one with a GBU-8 as well

[frigid karma]

It’s a thermal tracker

Why would it need to stop

[manic latch]

Some ATGMS can't be fired on move

[shrewd pecan]

depends on their guidance methods

[frigid karma]

Oh you’re talking about wt

Idk

[manic latch]

Yeah..

[shrewd pecan]

TOWS have to stop since there wire guided

[strong plank]

Better question

If it flips, can it use the arm to right itself

[shrewd pecan]

the PARS-3 is a similar guidance method to the javelin so

it could fire on the move

[manic latch]

Should have done that testing

Doubt tho

[shut wren]

I though the PARS was a thing to grab shit with

[frigid karma]

Don’t think it can handle that much weight

[manic latch]

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1624150404861665285

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

The crew of USS New Mexico (BB-40) replenish the battleship's supply of 14-inch projectiles prior to the invasion of Guam in 1944. #FirepowerFriday

Likes

141

Twitter · Feb 10, 2023, 8:56 PM

[ivory ridge]

the cascavel is getting an upgrade

and it has another role

so no

[rapid junco]

I dunno
There's some saying the might cancel their modernization

But
Rumours

As usual

[deep apex]

New Mexico my beloved

[frigid karma]

“He said a fighter jet had approached the object and assessed there was nobody onboard, and this information was available to Mr Biden when he made his decision.”

So most likely not a drone or balloon

What if the f-22 just shot down a saucer

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1624078207883280387

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

#OTD in 1906, HMS Dreadnought became "the most deadly fighting machine ever launched in the history of the world." Dreadnought heralded a new era of naval warfare by introducing a revolutionary design that gave the battleship unprecedented firepower and speed.

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Twitter · Feb 10, 2023, 4:09 PM

[shut wren]

dawg the alien boutta blow up the US

[maiden citrus]

https://twitter.com/DramaWarship/status/1624177115506548737/photo/1

Warship Drama (@DramaWarship)

Date: December 13, 1945. Event: Upon completion of gunnery practice near Corsica, French training ship (former battleship) Lorraine is approaching her home base of Toulon to commence 6-month long refit. Current status: Scrapped in 1954, lifespan of 42 years.

Twitter · Feb 10, 2023, 10:42 PM

[manic latch]

Eurofighter, Rafale, Su-30

[rapid junco]

Avengers inside the hangar of Minas Gerais

@desert agate

[glass trail]

there are people sun bathing

[desert agate]

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAYYYY

[desert agate]

speaking of water bombers there was a water bomber crash just a few days ago over here

fighting a bushfire out near Albany/Esperance

both pilots walked away miraculously

it's the company's second airframe loss since they lost that C-130 back in the black summer

[frigid karma]

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing.

[desert agate]

indeed

ATSB is having a fit rn because the details of this crash appear to be quite similar to the C-130 crash

so now theyre gonna push for heavier regulation of water bombers

[frigid karma]

https://tenor.com/view/madagascar-emergency-landing-plane-crash-animals-gif-16271570

[tough quail]

thats a hell of a fucking crash to just walk away from good lord

when you roll those invincibility frames i guess

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/CiroNappi6/status/1623996624694378497

Ciro Nappi (@CiroNappi6)

New hybrid CV90.
"Development of an evoluted version of CV90 is of extreme interest in Italy, because the IFV of BAE is saw as a possible candidate for the AICS program of the Italian Army (Armored Infantry Combat System) intended to replace the Dardo IFV"
https://t.co/I9BItoFNzM

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Twitter · Feb 10, 2023, 10:45 AM

[spring briar]

She’s so cute

[maiden citrus]

and so are you

[manic latch]

Italian San Marco leaving the port to aid Turkey

[tough quail]

godspeed lass

[fierce sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THqwyr3DZDc

[manic latch]

Kinda curious that. Despite its getting lighting hit by like 7 times every year. Picture of it just appeared

[manic latch]

Say how did sail ships cope with lighting strikes?

[shut wren]

They don’t? Not a boat guy let me ask

[desert agate]

for the most part they didnt
at least until the 1750s when Benjamin Franklin came up with the lightning rod and the Royal Navy started draping chains from their masts into the sea

neither were overly effective systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Snow_Harris#:~:text=The lightning rod invented by,mast as a lightning conductor.

wasnt until the 1830s that a definitive method was devised

it was common practice for ships to have large parts of their masts blown apart by lightning strikes prior to this

[manic latch]

Thanks

[unique sierra]

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2023/february/09/20230209-work-starts-on-third-new-nuclear-deterrence-submarine
Corgi getting nukes

[rapid junco]

[shrewd pecan]

Third F-22 kill

https://twitter.com/justintrudeau/status/1624527579116871681?s=46&t=Q8tSwVlc-3jGNo0Nuwfj7A

Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau)

I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. @NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object.

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Twitter · Feb 11, 2023, 9:55 PM

XCOM be off the charts this year

By the end of the decade F-22s going to end up with a kill record of 150-0 purely against unmanned targets I swear

[spiral cedar]

https://techport.nasa.gov/view/94821

[frigid karma]

flies through swarm of birds

300-0 kill record

[ornate wind]

I don’t think they’re built to withstand that many bird strikes?

[tough quail]

china cant be allowed to send in their flying buckets to scoop water out of california

[ornate wind]

Anyways, I hear a lot of anecdotes of warships not flying their colors or even trying to impersonate enemies pretty often. Does that not go against the rules of war?

[spiral cedar]

Technically you're just supposed to switch to your actual colors before opening fire

[ornate wind]

Understandable

[jagged monolith]

They can’t all be Chinese spy balloons. Sooner or later they’re going to shoot down some college student’s measurement balloon for their thesis or something.

[tough quail]

for my money im operating under the assumption that the latest two is just run of the mill junk that goes through these airspaces and its just a show of force to get people to stop bitching about NORAD being lazy

[frigid karma]

almost certainly

domestic politics whined at them about why muh balloon flew over me so they're just reporting more usual shootdowns to placate folks

[tough quail]

yeap

[manic latch]

???

Balloons jamming F-22's tech

[frigid karma]

Kremlin

did you miss like the 4000 press reports that it was not a balloon

the 2nd one, at least

[manic latch]

I'm sure it's aliens then

It was about time

[frigid karma]

no one knows what the third one was yet

[jagged monolith]

bloons tower defense

[frigid karma]

but the 2nd one was car-sized, likely not a drone (because the pilot looked inside and saw no one, according to government reports), and then shot it down

They've also confirmed, for what it's worth, that it's not one of their own systems

[jagged monolith]

The thing goes too fucking slow

[frigid karma]

so

[jagged monolith]

It’s a major problem when dealing with balloons or small drones, they are too slow and the high-performance fighters are all going very quickly.

[frigid karma]

funnily enough

BTD6 does have a fighter plane

[manic latch]

High altitude A-10 modification

[frigid karma]

how is that a problem

when a plane loses all of its energy in a dogfight

does the opposing pilot just shrug and say 'damn he's sitting still, i can't hit him'

[jagged monolith]

Because there’s not a good opportunity to strafe with your 20mm, basically.

[frigid karma]

?

it's an object sitting still

[jagged monolith]

The problem is compounded exponentially when over urban environments or the fucking thing is the size of a large bird.

[frigid karma]

about 200 feet large

[jagged monolith]

Hence why uh
We couldn’t shoot down that Nork thing

[frigid karma]

how would you miss this thing with a 20mil

[jagged monolith]

Oh I’m sure some can be hit

[frigid karma]

it's a

200 feet tall balloon

[jagged monolith]

but smallish balloons are a nightmare
I’m talking very specifically about that, and small cheap drones

[frigid karma]

the only way you are missing with any gun

is if it misfires

small cheap drones would be hard to hit because they are small

not because they are slow

[jagged monolith]

”hm I have 0.2 seconds to try and hit this thing without hitting buildings”

[frigid karma]

what height is this hypothetical drone at

for the plane to be hitting buildings

[jagged monolith]

2km
The size of a bird
The speed of a particularly fast bird
Over the skies of a large city

[frigid karma]

ok the drone would be hard to hit because it's the size of a bird

it doesn't really matter if it's travelling slowly or fastly

[jagged monolith]

The KT-1s had a way better shot at hitting because they could actually get level with it and have a few seconds to fire.

The KF-16s just zoomed past.

[frigid karma]

either way, you can get onto a position to fire at it; hitting it on the other hand with a 20mm or a missile is unlikely because it's the size of a goddamn bird

anyways, if we keep the F-22 this gun happy then maybe people will finally stop doing gender reveals with them

[jagged monolith]

The Nork drone also barely has an IR signature so lorf, good luck getting IIR lock, the thing emits below the sensitivity of the seeker because it’s so goddamn tiny

[frigid karma]

give f-22 a few days

and it'll accidently shoot down the moon/venus

[lime chasm]

hell yeah

[shrewd pecan]

with modern IR missiles

you can get locks on drones like that

[jagged monolith]

You would also lock on birds

[shrewd pecan]

Shaded-136s are being shotdown rn by Stingers and other MANPADs

drones do indeed give off enough of a IR signature to be locked upon

[jagged monolith]

Shaheds are huge lol

Much larger than any bird

[shrewd pecan]

https://youtu.be/vANN-eP0x9I

I have footage of quadcopters being shot down by MANPADs as well but I don't think I'll be allowed to share that here

[frigid karma]

well, that's kind of an inevitable consequence of being able to lock on to bird sized things?

[jagged monolith]

Operating at a few hundred meters, presumably.

[shrewd pecan]

there's nothing stopping you from shooting down targets like balloons or small drones with current IR missiles

the primary issue is doing so affordably

its not really too sustainable for example to keep using stingers against quadcopters unless you absolutely have to

its why you have programs like C-UAS alongside Stryker SHORAD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_Coyote

or this thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD6YhuU0id0

[manic latch]

Robotic

[shrewd pecan]

radar with a 30 MM intended to down drones with proxy fuze

[manic latch]

Rip all gun AA projects that died for missile wanking

[jagged monolith]

Most of these engagements are at lower altitude.

[shrewd pecan]

most drones are going to be flying at lower attitudes

[manic latch]

Lowest drone kill I saw was literally just above 1 meter

[shrewd pecan]

on top of that

[manic latch]

It was melee

[shrewd pecan]

smaller drones don't really have the ability to go fly for long or go too far up

[manic latch]

Say how do their signal ranges work

[frigid karma]

have you used civilian drones

[shrewd pecan]

most quad copters max out at around 90 minutes of endurance

[frigid karma]

or just used an rc car

same idea

[manic latch]

Very low range then

[jagged monolith]

Yet the North Koreans had one that loitered at 3km for 7 hours.

[frigid karma]

most

[shrewd pecan]

the North Korean drones

[frigid karma]

one example does not discount the vast majority

[shrewd pecan]

were pretty big

[frigid karma]

and thats not a quadcopter

thats like

a genuine drone

[jagged monolith]

Would you call “smaller than Shahed-131” big?

[frigid karma]

[shrewd pecan]

the size of a quadcopter is what I'd call small

[frigid karma]

def bigger than your quadcopters

[shrewd pecan]

the size of a global hawk is what I'd call massive

for the sizes you were talking about

[jagged monolith]

I care little for quadcopters.

[shrewd pecan]

these things are much larger unless you're talking about birds of prey

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/03/israeli-f-35s-shot-down-two-drones-first-confirmed-air-to-air-kills-for-jsf/

anyways returning to my original point

you can very much get a IR lock on almost every type of drone

especially with modern IR seeking missiles

I pointed out the Shaded since its being powered by a 55 HP engine

[jagged monolith]

That is altogether too much.

[frigid karma]

yet the North Koreans had one

that wasn't even a quadcopter

[jagged monolith]

Yes, I see no practical benefit for quadcopters in the case of North Korea.

[frigid karma]

then why bring that statement up

tato was talking about quads

[jagged monolith]

Because the North Koreans possess a small winged drone; I had misunderstood them to be simply talking about small drones.

[shrewd pecan]

I wasn't aware of the size of the drones he was talking about

[jagged monolith]

Not quadcopters.

[shrewd pecan]

beyond them being the size of a bird

which ranges from quadcopter size to bird of prey size

the North Korean drones seem more bird of prey size

[jagged monolith]

It’s 2m tops, most certainly the size of large birds living in the Korean Peninsula. Indeed a fair few are much larger.

[shrewd pecan]

so

bird of prey

[frigid karma]

Train an eagle to hold and fire a desert eagle

problem solved

[shrewd pecan]

unironically

taking down drones with birds of prey has been brought up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAYVyj6vf3Y

[jagged monolith]

This would be effective against North Korean dromes.

As they cannot be jammed.

[frigid karma]

yes, but they can also get harmed pretty badly

especially if the rotors are bigger

[shrewd pecan]

they probably can be jammed

[jagged monolith]

They do not transmit.

[frigid karma]

jammed yes, but im worried about harm to the eagles

[shrewd pecan]

🤨 so there flying drones entirely with inertial guidance

[jagged monolith]

Well, they transmit GPS but GPS jamming over Seoul is…

uh

not an option

[shrewd pecan]

that also doesn't stop solutions like the anti drone guns

[jagged monolith]

It does, as long as it has any kind of functioning combined INS/GPS. Distance is also a shield.

[shrewd pecan]

the drone guns can take drones out of the sky at ranges beyond 5 KMs

[jagged monolith]

Are these drones reliant on control from a distance, or are they preprogrammed?

[shrewd pecan]

they cut the drones ability to communicate with both GPS and remote control stations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDM4S

[jagged monolith]

Assuming this works, it should be effective against the North Korean drones to a limited extent, though it would only be made to increasingly wander since it is preprogrammed.

[frigid karma]

is this brazil?

[shrewd pecan]

French army

[shrewd pecan]

its been proven to work in Ukraine and plenty of other nations in both military and policing uses

the drones can't really do anything since they have nothing to navigate with

and I very much doubt North Korea's giving their disposable drones inertial guidance or anything for it to fall back upon

[jagged monolith]

Think Shahed-136 but preprogrammed.

North Korea has technological capacity, despite the memes. I am sure they can come up with conterjamming techniques if challenged, though as always, cost is problematic. Nonetheless it is extremely annoying, when they fuck around at 3km under camo color.

There is also the fun of GPS waypoints and ground-based systems. Use a decent INS+GPS and you have yourself an absolute nightmare.

[rapid junco]

@spring briar

[frigid karma]

@spiral cedar

[The hoax] involved Cole and five friends—writer Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf), her brother Adrian Stephen, Guy Ridley, Anthony Buxton, and artist Duncan Grant—who had themselves disguised by the theatrical costumier Willy Clarkson with skin darkeners and turbans to resemble members of the Abyssinian royal family.

A friend of Stephen's sent a telegram to the "C-in-C, Home Fleet" (Commander-in-chief of the vessels defending Britain) stating that "Prince Makalen of Abbysinia [sic] and suite arrive 4.20 today Weymouth. He wishes to see Dreadnought. Kindly arrange meet them on arrival"; the message was signed "Harding Foreign Office". Cole, with his entourage, went to London's Paddington station where Cole claimed that he was "Herbert Cholmondeley" of the Foreign Office and demanded a special train to Weymouth; the stationmaster arranged a VIP coach.

In Weymouth, the navy welcomed the princes with an honour guard. An Abyssinian flag was not found, so the navy proceeded to use that of Zanzibar and to play Zanzibar's national anthem.

The group inspected the fleet. To show their appreciation, they communicated in a gibberish of words drawn from Latin and Greek; they asked for prayer mats and attempted to bestow fake military honours on some of the officers.

When the prank was uncovered in London, the ringleader Horace de Vere Cole contacted the press and sent a photo of the "princes" to the Daily Mirror. The group's pacifist views were considered a source of embarrassment, and the Royal Navy briefly became an object of ridicule. The navy later demanded that Cole be arrested. However, Cole and his compatriots had not broken any law. Instead, except for Virginia Woolf, they were subjected to a symbolic thrashing on the buttocks by junior Royal Navy officers

[spiral cedar]

The Dreadnought Hoax

[spiral cedar]

https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/episodes/017-desert-storm-mig-kill/

(This is one of the incidents mentioned in the Operations Room video on Day 1 of the Gulf War air war)

[frigid karma]

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1624573546830733312?s=20&t=69S5b0HB67TR8LZsnKhAmw

Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks)

BREAKING: The FAA says that they have closed some airspace in Montana to support "Department of Defense activities" - BNO

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Twitter · Feb 12, 2023, 12:58 AM

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) earlier on Saturday closed and then reopened airspace in Montana after temporarily barring flights in an area about 50 by 50 nautical miles (93 by 93 km) around Havre, Montana, near the Canadian border.

The FAA issued similar flight restrictions in response to the earlier suspected Chinese spy balloon.

Three lawmakers said on Twitter there was an unidentified object seen in Montana airspace Saturday.

motherfucker a 4th one?

[shrewd pecan]

it was a false alarm

F-15s from Oregon got scrambled

found nothing

[frigid karma]

ah

or maybe, the saucer turned on invisibility shields

[shrewd pecan]

3rd object I believe was confirmed to be balloon

[frigid karma]

3rd object was a balloon?

[shrewd pecan]

2nd one we still have no idea

the one over Canada was a balloon yeah

2nd one I'm suspecting is likely some type of drone

[frigid karma]

sauce for that?

[shrewd pecan]

lemme find it

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chinese-spy-balloon-china-shot-down-video-b2279622.html

I can't confirm 100% for sure it was a balloon

I've just seen multiple articles and twitter posts call it another balloon

[frigid karma]

Canada’s Defence Minister Anita Anand said during a Saturday evening briefing that the “small, cyndrical object” was flying at 40,000 feet and “posed a reasonable threat” to civilian aircraft.

It was shot down 100 miles from the US-Canada border in Canadian territory in central Yukon.

that sounds like it was the 2nd shootdown, not the yukon one

Yeah i dont really trust the independent for these thigns

[shrewd pecan]

same

its just the first one that came up

[frigid karma]

i'm fairly certain we don't know what the third one was

[shrewd pecan]

we probably don't

[frigid karma]

oop, nvm

Anand didn’t use the word “balloon” to describe the object. But later, General Wayne Eyre, chief of the defence staff, said the instructions given to the planes was “who ever had the first, best shot to take out the balloon had the go-ahead”.

Trudeau said Canadian forces would recover the wreckage for study. The Yukon is westernmost Canadian territory and the among the least populated part of Canada.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/warplane-shoots-down-unidentified-object-over-northern-canada-20230212-p5cjtr.html

[shrewd pecan]

ah

[frigid karma]

2nd one definitely was not a balloon though; likely a drone, or one of them tictacs nimitz kept seeing

[remote monolith]

motherfucking aliens invading us now

they're coming I tell you

[ivory ridge]

Kekw

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/defencegreece_m/status/1624029000807993345

Defencegreece-Media (@defencegreece_m)

#Greece decided on latest Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting on 07 February 23 to start the procurement of the following:
-Upgrade 123 Leopard 2 A4
-Procurement of 205 newly built #Lynx #IFV #KF41
This was revealed by @npanagioto during a Parliament discussion

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Twitter · Feb 10, 2023, 12:54 PM

[desert agate]

fun fact the AIM-9 has fewer internal components than a standard consumer grade radio

[manic latch]

Because you can't listen music with Aim-9

[tough quail]

that's what amraams are for

the AMR is for AM radio

[ivory ridge]

Truly

[manic latch]

US national security officials believe that the latest detected flying objects were balloons, US Senate majority leader Schumer says - Reuters

Aw man it's not Alien ufo

[manic latch]

Nah it can't use HESH

[shrewd pecan]

the ideal timeline

👁️ abrams tank of the anglo world

[subtle prawn]

And then the CR2 was the winner because of a lot of lobbying…

[shrewd pecan]

Apparently a 16 got this one

XCOMs successes continue

They have the best of the best going in (there retired gym teachers)

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCIuihpHDE

And now I know what went wrong with the M16 in the early days

[frigid karma]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/politics/lake-huron-high-altitude-object/index.html

third day in a ROW

and 4th one overall

Lmao

[deep apex]

Using rifling in 2023

[frigid karma]

rifled for your pleasure

[deep apex]

I prefer smoothbore

[spring briar]

Smoothbore is older than rifling

Rifling is more versatile

And has a wider application

Also shells use rifling so ofc it is superior

Except in mbt’s where you want a smoothbore to use the propellant as efficiently as possible for the dart projectile

[frigid karma]

but what if your lawn really needs to be fertilized and the battle is happening in your neighborhood

rifling will allow you to attach some fertilizer packets to your shell and allow a more even distribution when it flies spinning over your property than smoothbore

the devil is in the details, truly

[spring briar]

Rifling is just better

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1624853791832174592

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

#OTD in 1988, USS Yorktown and USS Caron were attempting to exercise the right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea when they were intentionally bumped by Soviet frigates. The ships experienced only minor damage from the collisions.

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Twitter · Feb 12, 2023, 7:31 PM

[shut wren]

F-22 balloon frenzy

Yall should just send a monkey with a dart

[frigid karma]

The object appeared to be **octagonal **in structure, with strings hanging off but no discernible payload, said a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity.

[frigid karma]

That was f16

And I think we actually just shot down a fucking alien

[shut wren]

Welp

[frigid karma]

Opsi files playing out in front of us

[shut wren]

we gonna be in for the long haul

[shrewd pecan]

Minnesota air national guard claimed the balloon kill over Michigan https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/mn-national-guard-airman-shot-down-object-over-lake-huron/89-295077dd-d56a-4766-91e4-50ec2115b175

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfRllPxy6Bg

[eternal veldt]

Last week, our Assistant Director – Collections and Fleet, Richard Wesley and Fleet Manager Scott Grant visited Garden Island to inspect the progress of work on HMAS Vampire. The Daring Class Destroyer is halfway through its refit in the historic Captain Cook Graving Dock. Richard and Scott took the opportunity to inspect the undersides of the ship, where they were dwarfed by Vampire’s propellers.

Now we're very excited to welcome the restored Vampire back to the Museum tomorrow!

[glass trail]

im ngl, this doesnt look very good

and the big overhang under the gun looks dangerous

[junior trench]

How does it look dangerous

[shut wren]

Someone catch me up on what tf are we shooting down in Alaska and the such

[autumn sorrel]

Either Chinese or Alien

Frankly I hope it is Alien, purely for entertainment

[shrewd pecan]

one notable thing about the CCVL

a

when the gun depressed the roof of the turret partially lifted up to allow for more depression

[shut wren]

Damn it’s either aliens or Chinese magical ufo balloons

[cinder basin]

Tomorrow is KMS Bismarck launch day

14 February 1939

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtOIjtIszeo

[spiral cedar]

https://thehistorianshut.com/2017/01/10/virgils-aeneid-contained-some-peculiar-nautical-sea-nymphs/

“And all at once,
each vessel snapping her cables free of the bank,
they dive like dolphins, plunging headlong beaks
to the bottom’s depths, then up they surface,
turned into lovely virgins—wondrous omen—
each a sea-nymph sweeping out to sea.”

They know their king far off, circling, dancing round him
and one, most eloquent of them all, Cymodocea swims in
on his wake and grips his stern with her right hand,
arching her back above the swells as her left hand
rows the silent waves, and she calls out to Aeneas,
lost to it all: “Awake Aeneas, son of the gods?
Wake up! Fling your sheets to the winds, sail free!
Here we are, the pines from the sacred ridge of Ida,
When traitorous Turnus forced us headlong on
with sword and torch, we burst your mooring lines,
we had no choice, and now we scour the seas
to find our captain. The Great Mother pitied us,
changed our shape, she made us goddesses, yes,
And so we pass our lives beneath the waves.”

[manic latch]

Nymph

[spiral cedar]

Shipgirls in BCE

[spiral cedar]

No need to start off aggressive

(Except to point out that there is no “KMS” prefix)

[desert agate]

sorry you're right

i try to be nice idk just in a bad mood or something

[spiral cedar]

[cinder basin]

Huh

[spiral cedar]

Yeah

If you look at the historical documents of the time they don’t use any prefix for Kriegsmarine ships

Later postwar writers basically invented it

[cinder basin]

You are right

[chilly osprey]

I think I've said this before.

But I do chuckle every time I see it, because all I read is 'Kill My Self Bismarck'

[spiral cedar]

Likewise IJN ships did not have a prefix

[cinder basin]

I was thinking other thing

[desert agate]

SMS, RM, whatever the French one was

[desert agate]

all just fake and kinda weird anglification of other countries maritime history

[chilly osprey]

SMS was used by the Imperial German Navy

[spiral cedar]

HNLMS

The best prefix

[chilly osprey]

Marine Nationale never used a prefix, but the RM did

RN for the most part (for 'Regia Nave'), though often cruisers and destroyers would use RI and RCT

[spring briar]

MN…

Every time I see it…

[desert agate]

lets make up fake prefixes for countries that dont use them
ill start

PLANS

[cinder basin]

RPG 😭

[chilly osprey]

[desert agate]

or butcher countries that do use prefixes in the same way we make up fake prefixes

like RNS Queen Elizabeth

or USNS Nimitz

technically both prefixes are in use iirc

but not in that contet

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RMS Hood

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RNZNS Te Kaha

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Chinese Republican Navy: CRN Ning Hai

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no actually that much worse than the RNZNs actual prefix

HMNZS

which is just a piss take and the kiwis should just not bother

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His Imperial Japanese Majesty Ship: HIJMS Zuikaku (I wish I invented this but some people use this)

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IJNS

IJAS

IJAFS?

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Wehrmacht Ship: WS Prinz Eugen

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the logical conclusion?

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NoTJEoJ:
Navy of the Japanese empire of Japan

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DODS Enterprise

Department of Defence Ship

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Distributed Denial of Shipping: DDoS Enterprise

Which was her job anyway

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ADFS Canberra

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That was not funny jaba

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Sez u

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oooh the roast

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Is that a suez joke

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AS (Admiralty Ship) Warspite

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Polish Imperial Ship Service

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American Navy Unloading Ship: ANUS LST-1

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wow jaba way to keep it in the gutter

jeez

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Ship of United States

Or SUS

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CORGI (craft of regent george imperator) Warspite

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404

Prefix of French ships

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UFOS Myrtle Beach

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too soon?

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Too late

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Oh no

Please don’t come to my house and ram that big

Enormous, even

Shell into me

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Pick one

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Myrtle beach is so last week

It’s Lake Huron now

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I said

Pick

One

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Which one is One

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One of them

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You pick

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=vlR20zrCieI&feature=shares

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Surcouf

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Third one

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https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1625258511679750144

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

#OTD in 1929, Congress authorized the construction of the U.S. Navy's first purpose-built aircraft carrier, USS Ranger. The cost to build the Ranger was equivalent to $257 million in 2023. As lead ship in the next generation of carriers, USS Gerald R. Ford cost $13 billion.

Twitter · Feb 13, 2023, 10:19 PM

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What about Hr Ms and Zr Ms

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I’ll leave that to you

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Do you guys have a prefix?

||I already knew in fact, i'm just saying for the meme||

I think we Brazilians are the only ones without a navy prefix in this region
Even our biggest rival (🇦🇷) have one

Which is

ARA

||Armada de la Republica Argentina||

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🐀

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That one sailor that has a rodent and a cat for a friend

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Does anyone have that meme picture where all the Nazi tanks are labeled totally wrong? Like a panzer 1 is labeled as a Maus and the Tiger is labeled as a panzer 4 and so on

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just go on your usual wehrb server

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:(

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I am NOT a wehraboo >:(((((

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https://i.imgur.com/XqwkLiC.png

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Can't even ask for a meme pic

Literally 1984

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eyo

@humble mulch oc hiryu/soryu

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yos

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What did I just walk in on here?

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I found myself at Kings Park ANZAC memorial in Perth last night

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naisu

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Happy February 14 all, launch day of one of the most famous ships of WWII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maury_(DD-401)

https://destroyerhistory.org/goldplater/ussmaury/

Holder of the all-time speed record for a US destroyer (making over 42 knots despite being designed for less than 37), title to 16 Battle Stars, and major player in the first total defeat of a Japanese surface force in a night action at Vella Gulf, USS Maury would survive the war and earn a Presidential Unit Citation.

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who was your valentine

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Uh

Dunno

Haven’t opened AL in like 2 years

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dew it

and also, you have 1 year and 3 months of child support to pay

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It's already uninstalled for more storage space

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sadge

it's broaching like 12gb these days

voice lines and l2d take up a lot of space

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Yeh

https://destroyerhistory.org/goldplater/index.asp?r=40130&pid=40131

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oh, btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUC6TvPFplU&ab_channel=AzurLaneOfficial-Yostar

your waifu fully voice acted in english and properly 3d animated

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hopefully they do more of this in the future

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Lovely

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Design speed 36.5 knots, but with the new 565 psi boilers (165 psi over the Mahan and Porter classes) pushing her to 52,000 SHP (more shaft horsepower than both Nevada-class battleships combined as-built), she reached 42.8 knots on trials—an astounding 6.3 knots above her design speed

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Fantasque and Mogador classes walk in

with capital ship levels of horsepower

What's that? 45 knots?

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Got some crappy capital ships then

And yeah around 45

Combat speed might be 28 knots but w/e

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I mean, the Maury speed is also on trials

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Was there any latewar dp derivative of the 138

Or was the first French one the 127

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French went straight to the 127 to take advantage of massive US ammo surpluses they were willing to hand over to France for near-free

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The three ships with Rateau turbines were slightly faster than the Parsons ships, and they were grouped accordingly for operational purposes: the Rateau ships formed the 10th DCT and the Parsons ships the 8th DCT. Le Terrible failed to maintain the speed advantage she established on trials once she entered service, but all six ships comfortably sustained 43 knots on trials and more than 40 knots in service. ‘Formation speed’ was established as 40 knots for the Rateau ships, and 38/39 knots for the Parsons ships, and once the ships entered service with the 2nd Light Squadron (Brest) in 1937, the ‘raiding speed’ of the latter formation was raised from 35 knots to 38 knots. Combat speed, however, was significantly lower: 28 knots – it was found that between 26 knots and 30 knots not one of the six was affected by the vibrations which disturbed gunnery and rangefinder observations.

The last raid took place on the night of 24/25 June and took the ships into the Gulf of Trieste. No maritime traffic was encountered, but Le Fantasque experienced severe vibrations in her port shaft which restricted her to a maximum speed of 25 knots. All three ships were now suffering regular problems with their propellers and shafts which entailed repairs at Bizerte. Le Malin’s shaft problems were not easily resolved, the replacement of the support by one removed from L’Audacieux proving too time-consuming.

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Yeah, the Fantasque class were a somewhat troubled set of ships.

Won't deny that

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Didn’t help that these ships were asymmetrically built to accommodate the staggered shaft

Still very impressive ships

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Malin set the record with 45.05 knots iirc

A record that lasted until 1961, depending on your choice of parameters

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Who beat it?

Also should be Le Terrible

Le Malin’s top speed at 2844 tonnes was 42.26 knots

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On 22 January 1935 Le Terrible established the world record for a displacement vessel during her Washington trials. On 30 January 1935 she ran three lengths of the Glenans-Penmarch range, achieving 45.42 knots on her second run with 94,353CV at 419.78rpm. Following a correction made for displacement (Washington standard displacement was 2615.99t), speed was corrected to 45.07 knots.

Yeh

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Le Terrible’s top is 45.074 (after correction)

Just wanted to give the exact figure

She was even doing 8 hours at 2853 tonnes with 86343 hp and 329 rpm giving her a speed of 42.92 knots

Top speed during this run was 43.78 knots

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Anyway this is Maury’s launch day

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Our obsessive use of boilers lead us to the magical sural
And France is still known as a large exporter of excellent boilers

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And Jeanne D’Arc’s too

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Yoink

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Yes

Her too

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Only 1 battle star

Rookie numbers

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Btw happy valentines day sirene and jaba

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You thought I was posting Bismarck

But it was TP all along

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Oh thats pitze

I see the black barrels now

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That specific picture of her I recognize

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she likes tall boys

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Bismarck at least has 2 battle stars

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April 1, 1939

heh

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Can identify fairly easily with that second pair of 105s

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The easiest way to recognise pitze is by knowing what bismarck looks like

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maury fasto

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The easiest way is to see if the image is dated from June 1941 onward

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11th of august 1999

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💀

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Tornado my beloved

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"God behoede je brandkast"

• Dulcinea in a farewell speech to Jacob van Heemskerck after refit in Portsmouth.

(TL: God keep you strongbox)

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Firebox

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Nice

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https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/02/kongsberg-to-supply-equipment-for-italian-navys-submarine-rescue-ship/

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That looks absolutely cool as fuck

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WT players can identify a tank just by their mere silhouette, but they can't identify a singular ship since none plays naval

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naval is fun

except when it isnt

and also like

kongos are so recognisable its not even funny

maybe im biased but like

theyre hard to miss

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Man it looks like a Doorman with a sick as crane.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/14/missile-misfire-lake-huron-aerial-object/

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Tato this is your chance

If Aim-9X didn't self destruct maybe you can find it somewhere

$400k missile with latest tech

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The encounter, first disclosed publicly by two of Michigan’s congressional representatives, was the fourth such occurrence this month. Other aerial objects were shot down Friday off the North Slope of Alaska and on Saturday over the Yukon territory of Canada. The White House said Tuesday that all three objects downed in recent days, while their wreckage have not been recovered, are believed to be commercial devices and that U.S. intelligence officials suspect they had no nefarious intent.

Unfortunately, no alien invasion today

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sorry but that would mean admitting my state misses (my state's ANG shot it down)

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"latest tech"

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Low-level development started in the late 1940s,

Latest

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missiles get the cumgrass treatment probably the hardest of anything in the us arsenal

there's a reason germany is trying to subcontract someone to bodge iris-ts onto their F-35s because sidewinders are shit

well air to airs anyway

hellfires are pretty good

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Cmon it's the best sidewinder US has

And costs 400k$ likely not for scam reasons

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That’s because they primarily use the IRST

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because iris-ts are hilariously better, yes