history

[runic ermine]

Only BCs still in service

[humble jewel]

Alaska would happily feast on it ngl

[spring briar]

If it gets within 15km maybe

[manic latch]

Copium

7000kg Granit upon ye

[spring briar]

Yeap

Hence within short enough range where Alaska can just shoot her first

And even then you aren’t guaranteed to disable its offensive capabilities

[manic latch]

I can destroy Alaska with a hand grenade if I can get close enough to her magazines

[spring briar]

No

You can’t

[manic latch]

How

[spring briar]

Hand grenades are not capable of piercing enough propellant cases

To cause a chain reaction

[manic latch]

So if I throw hand grenade into a storage full of 305mm HE shells

Nothing will happen

[spring briar]

Depends on the year of manufacture

[manic latch]

[spring briar]

And the safety precautions

It might work to an old pre dread

[autumn sorrel]

Krem, ready for boarding action

We will "liberate" Alaska to serve the USSR

[manic latch]

There was a medal of honor mission where you sink Bismarck or Tirpitz as one guy with charges lol

[autumn sorrel]

Sink in harbor?

[manic latch]

Ye

You raid the harbor

[autumn sorrel]

Can they just refloat?

[manic latch]

Yes

But will take time

[autumn sorrel]

Well, seeing how much time Tirpitz being the harbor queen, I don't see any difference

[manic latch]

I prefer Stalingrad tbh

Alaska would be useful for her radar gear in mid 40s

[autumn sorrel]

Nah, keep the name, Alaska was Russia anyway

[manic latch]

Cold war would be funny if it stayed that way

[autumn sorrel]

Wait, a Russian ship name Alaska

How much shitstorm will it stir?

Hmm, what if USN re-activate Alaska class instead of Iowa?

[manic latch]

You mean

If they didn't scrap Alaskas

[autumn sorrel]

[humble jewel]

real

[manic latch]

Kirovs carry 20 of these missiles

Yeah you wouldn't want to be Alaska during hit

[humble jewel]

I don't think that would even cross their minds

[humble jewel]

damn...

[manic latch]

They are 7000kg, 7 tons

You know what else was 7 tons

[humble jewel]

welp, escort DDGs might be needed to counter

[manic latch]

Your m-

800mm AP of Germans

[manic latch]

Ah yes

[humble jewel]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/528197562998718474/1223483518282108969/1651450152292.gif

[manic latch]

Then it ain't 1v1

[humble jewel]

sadly

I remember Missouri getting some missiles

[autumn sorrel]

Throw in some Udaloy to even the odd

[junior trench]

shells

then definitely not

[manic latch]

Guess their walls are thick enough indeed

What's the term Rich

Shell layer?

Shell wall?

[spring briar]

Shell wall

[manic latch]

Lame

[spring briar]

Explosive D is not gonna care about a grenade

[manic latch]

Rich

[spring briar]

Nor is any filler save maybe TNA

[manic latch]

If Mutsu was because of a suicidal crew

How did he do it

[autumn sorrel]

Wasn't he ignite the powder bag?

[spring briar]

If the powder in the metal cases has degraded far enough, a single deflagration could set off a chain reaction

[autumn sorrel]

Hmm, Mutsu was from the Interwar, what was the IJN ammunition handling procedure?

I know USN have some fuck up when one of Iowa class turret got blow up due to a faulty powder bag, so how was IJN?

[spring briar]

The IJN was similar to British interwar handling
With even more safeties
But they switched to a more stable propellant in the 30’s after mutsu exploded

But honestly who knows what they were doing during peacetime

These magazine detonations happened mostly in peacetime when handling procedures were more lax

And propellant was probably not refreshed in time

[autumn sorrel]

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1777395142439121076

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD in 1970, the "Doomsday Ship" USS Northampton (CLC-1) was decommissioned. Laid down as a heavy cruiser in 1944, the Northampton was converted into a command ship that would serve as the "Floating White House" to direct a retaliatory strike in the event of a nuclear attack.

Twitter · Apr 8, 2024, 5:56 PM

[signal wave]

Oh yea, those things

[runic ermine]

Anybody find battles that were moral victories interesting?

[hearty dune]

what's an example

[runic ermine]

Gallipoli

[runic ermine]

Shanghai

Wake Island

Like battles that were a major moral booster

[shy grail]

Type 93 San Shiki being hilarious unstable probably

[desert agate]

How in gods name was Gallipoli a morale boost?

Gallipoli single handedly stopped conscription in Australia and began the process of the AIF becoming operationally independent from the BEF

[runic ermine]

For the Ottomans not the ANZACS

Dispite taking almost twice the amount of casualties as the Entent forces, it motivated the Ottomans to fight on

[shy grail]

They straight up won lmao

Not like the other examples

[runic ermine]

I know but it was also a moral boost

[desert agate]

Provided your victory isn't pyrrhic then all victories boost morale

That's literally how victory works

[runic ermine]

The Ottomans kinda were getting their asses handed to them up until that point

[desert agate]

No not really

[shy grail]

I'd say the British were given they got immediately stuck

[desert agate]

The Caucasus front was very much the primary front for the Ottoman war effort and while they had suffered some defeats it was far from collapse

[shy grail]

And then Bulgaria joined the Triple Alliance making the position untenable

[runic ermine]

22,000 people froze to death

[runic ermine]

Also they failed to take the suez canal

[runic ermine]

I know but 22,000 people freezing to death and then committing a genocide isn't exactly the definition of stable

[desert agate]

The Ottomans started winning on the Caucasus front after Gallipoli because the troops and specifically Kemal were redeployed there

[runic ermine]

Also because the troops had higher moral

[desert agate]

Yes

That's how victory works

[runic ermine]

Not always. Look at the Tet Offensive

Or the battle of Shanghai

[desert agate]

Shanghai very much galvanised the Japanese army

And Tet also did a lot to win the war

[runic ermine]

Yes but I remember hearing that they expected it to be a much shorter battle

[runic ermine]

For the vietcon

[steel rapids]

NVA also

Dont forget about them

[runic ermine]

Also the battle boosted Chinese moral because they believed that it showed the world that China would stand up to Japan

[runic ermine]

Yeah them too

[shy grail]

Tet was viewed as an abysmal failure by the NVA

[runic ermine]

@steel rapids wait you're Vietnamese right? Do they talk about the Tet Offensive in your history class?

[shy grail]

They didn't realise the impact they had on American society

[runic ermine]

I used it as an example of winning a battle but losing moral

Not as a moral victory

Or moral boost or whatever you want to call it

[shy grail]

They lost moral because they were basically lied to by the US Governemnt

But in general winning a battle gains moral

[runic ermine]

Also because they didn't expect the NVA and vietcon to be able to pull offensives

[runic ermine]

Yes however there's points if you know what I mean

[steel rapids]

They do

[autumn sorrel]

In what way Tet is a morale victory?

[junior trench]

if you totally misunderstand the reasons why such a large offensive was made, then yes

the Tet offensive was launched because the Vietcong were on their last legs, whether they launched the big offensive or not

it was a textbook backed into the corner offensive

[autumn sorrel]

You can argue Tet shattered the image that Johnson had been projected about an American Victory in Vietnam but that Offensive also gutted the NLF so much that had Hanoi not sent more manpower and equipment, NLF were largely reduce back to guerilla warfare and can't mount any more major offensive that can even remotely threaten Saigon

[junior trench]

the messaging that the VC were on their last legs wasn't wrong, and with how thoroughly they'd been gutted by the losses of making the offensive the messaging was more right than ever

the issue being that trying to explain that sort of thing to most politicians and the population at large utterly fails

[autumn sorrel]

And the effect on American morale isn't even on Hanoi calculation, if anything, they more focus on the fact that the Offensive was launch yrs too late, when Saigon political situation has largely stabilized and there are too much American force present in Vietnam

[junior trench]

it was a final bluff and the US political sphere blinked

which to the North Vietnamese was a sign they could keep throwing support into a no longer bottomless well

[autumn sorrel]

I would argue that Hanoi will continue the support anyway, the politburo has been dominated by Hawks by then. Even if US don't come to the negotiating table, they would be content with supporting a low level insurgency in the South.

[shy grail]

If they were sure the VC were on their last legs but still with a large offensive potential, they should have anticipated a powerful attack. However, that could also easily been a powerful offensive that they had prepared for without needing to go full-out and gut their military strength. Trying to say that the VC was weak and on its last legs is fundamentally wrong if they still have the option of the offensive

In any case, this is more criticism of the politicians than the military

[lime scarab]

Hay question what was the heaviest fleet in ww2? Like Germany, America, England, and Japan etc.

[shy grail]

Back and forth between USN and RN until 1943, then USN

[lime scarab]

Really I thought it would be Germany and Japan because they got out of the Washington treaty and started build over the limit tonnage

[shy grail]

Nah, Germany's fleet was under Versailles, and Japan industry is small compared to even Britain, nevermine USA

[lime scarab]

So America and Britain said yeah no, and started to build very heavy ships

[shy grail]

The gap was just too big to begin with

[lime scarab]

Then do you mind me askig what where the heaviest ships in the royal navy and American navy?

[maiden citrus]

most likely Hood and Lexington, respectively

if we're going by war start

[lime scarab]

Hood was that heavy?

[maiden citrus]

43,000 tons normal displacement

[grave ravine]

Germany wouldn't even be in the top 5, the Kreigsmarine was just not that large or capable compared to the major naval powers

[maiden citrus]

the USN and RN entered ww2 with close to 20 BBs, 8CVs, 150ish DDs, etc

Germany had 4 BBs, 0 CVs and 21 DDs

to put it into perspective

[autumn sorrel]

Japan build treaty limit breaking cruiser but not big fleet unit, even when they start to build new hull, the total tonnage still favor RN and USN

[grave ravine]

Japan simply lacked the industrial capability to outbuild the US or UK

[frozen kestrel]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-doge-dog-appear-doge-apear-apear-gif-21623218

[autumn sorrel]

Frankly, Washington treaty also help Japan from being in a very expensive arm race but they don’t see it that way

[frozen kestrel]

Hey, fellas. Sorry to inconvenience you yet again, but does anyone know where I can find a decent cross section of the Type 91 aerial torpedo?

[grave ravine]

It helped everyone avoid an expensive arms race

[autumn sorrel]

Seeing the Industrial capacity of Japan, it is an arm race that they will lose fast

[grave ravine]

Britain was also not in a great spot with WW1 debts and all, while it's somewhat questionable how long political will would have held out in the US

[maiden citrus]

Japan had somewhat competitive larger units, esp in their carrier arm which was probably superior to the RN, but lacked in other ways

at ww2 start they had 12 BBs (around 2/3rd what the US was fielding), 10 CVs (competitive), 68 DDs (around 1/3rd what the US was fielding)

[grave ravine]

Though if the US govt stayed it's course the US would likely have "won" the arms race

[autumn sorrel]

Laugh in US Industry

[shy grail]

Nah, congress was about to pull the funding

[maiden citrus]

mrw spending 1/3rd of your GDP on military and wanting to go way further

[shy grail]

High chance even the extant South Dakotas and Lexingtons never get completed

[autumn sorrel]

You would be surprised how fast Congress give funding when Japan become the new adversary

[shy grail]

Japan is getting capped by earthquake lmao

[grave ravine]

Source?

[maiden citrus]

all of them were already in building, with a few far along

[autumn sorrel]

Only in Japan where the gov short change their own civilians to prioritize the military

[grave ravine]

While the Lexington's were somewhat controversial, the ones under construction would definitely have been finished and there was a strong consensus behind the Sodaks

[maiden citrus]

yeah my post is more for the sodaks

all were in building, and not 1% done bs either, but 'we're going to give the finished guns to the army, refit other ship engines using the ones built for these ships and keep the already produced armor plates as spares' done

[autumn sorrel]

I think that one is pretty easy find online, question is, you want high res or simple sketch

[frozen kestrel]

Just like, a basic one I guess. I'm not gonna model the interior of it, but figuring out how round the front of it is has become a royal pain in my ass

[shy grail]

SW Roskill, 1968, Naval Policy between the Wars, Vol. 1, Walker and Company, New York

Cut to 2 BBs and 1 Lexington

[frozen kestrel]

High res might be the safer oftion though, since there's those little rudder things on its sides, and those might be pain

[autumn sorrel]

Hmm

You mean the 2 small fin thingy?

There are multiple warhead image for type 91

So many Kai

[shy grail]

Also supported by multiple books fyi, like:
Hagan, 1991, This People's Navy: the Making of American Sea Power, The Free Press, New York, NY,
MJ Pusey, 1963, Charles Evans Hughes, Columbia University Press, New York, NY.

TR Roosevelt Junior commented that had the US "had waited another year, Congress would have abandoned our building program"

[lime scarab]

I mean I can why the Lexingtons were over tonnage because they were supposed to be battle cruisers until the conversion of aircraft carriers add more tonnage to them I think

[shy grail]

Even when converted the Lexingtons outright cheated the WNT lmao

Cap was 33000 ton, actually Lexington built to 36000 ton by creative interpretation

Using same interpretation Nelsons could have been 38000 ton, for example

[lime scarab]

Why were the Lexingtons 36000 tonnage before being converted

[shy grail]

Lexington post conversion 36000 ton, pre conversion even heavier (about 40 k ton standard, 43 k ton normal IIRC)

Due to the battlecruiser variant having guns and barbette as weight

[wintry moat]

16 inch guns are massive and Heavy

[lime scarab]

So basically thanks to them not adding the guns and the conversion let it to be 36000 tonnage instead of 40000

[shy grail]

Yeah basically

[shy grail]

Eh, congress already cut funding in 1918 according to my sources

[lime scarab]

@shy grail by the way the reason why the untied states use the Lexingtons to convert to aircraft carriers because they’re hual were incomplete when the Washington treaty was signed so congress was like “ yeah this would work” correct?

[shy grail]

Negotiated in WNT yeah

[lime scarab]

If I remember correctly the treaty said the navy’s that signed the Washington treaty they are allowed to convert two huals into aircraft carriers while they have to scrap the warships that are over the tonnage of the treaty

@shy grail is a that true or am I wrong?

[shy grail]

Basically, yes

Don't need to ask me specifically for this though

Pretty common knowledge tbh

[visual rover]

Tromp in type frigates

Tromp in all type of the ships (Light Cruiser and Frigates)

[manic latch]

https://vxtwitter.com/Tank_Archives/status/1777554177075429837?t=Dx5UOu7Dn5_xcdUvWRaeTw&s=19

[steel rapids]

That looks like the T44

[autumn sorrel]

Bc T-54 is basically a larger T-44

Slightly larger

Oh, right. Ghidorah, did you notice the new T-55m3 upgrade for the PAVN?

[steel rapids]

Ah yes

More armor

[runic ermine]

It wasn't. I used it as an example of winning a battle but losing moral

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC2gP2kLsKc

[autumn sorrel]

To cut cost as much as possible, they even reject installing smoke launcher

[steel rapids]

But good protection tho

[autumn sorrel]

Any good late cold war and modern ATGM will make mince meat out of the armor

[steel rapids]

Real because its old and you just more armor into it and increase protection a bit but not much so yeah

[autumn sorrel]

The best thing they can boast about it is the new Indra FCS, laser rangefinder and ballistic computer does make it way more accurate

But the ERA block still iffy for me

The hull blocks are fine, but they claim the turret also use ERA, but those look more like add on armor like those on T-55AM to me.

[steel rapids]

True

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1777723682820878614

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

It's National Winston Churchill Day to commemorate when the British Prime Minister became an honorary U.S. citizen. USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) flies the Royal Navy White Ensign on special occasions and always has a Royal Navy officer as a member of the ship's company.

Twitter · Apr 9, 2024, 3:42 PM

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1777763529120243930

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

Today is National Unicorn Day. HMS Unicorn became the only aircraft carrier to conduct a shore bombardment when she used her four twin mount QF 4-inch Mk XVI dual purpose guns to shell North Korean coastwatchers at Chopekki Point in 1951.
#NationalUnicornDay

Twitter · Apr 9, 2024, 6:20 PM

[frozen kestrel]

Quick Question: Anyone know what font (can't think of any other word to call it) they used for hull numbers back in the Second World War?

[eternal veldt]

Custom designed, no font name.

there are two variants; pre-WW2 and post-WW2, the US navy used this type with black shadows. Come World War II, ships are marked with tiny, smaller letters you see on the right.

That said, there are exceptions - Laffey being a good (and only) example I can think of not following this rule.

[frozen kestrel]

So I'm guessing this one falls into the second type?

[eternal veldt]

Most ships of that era do, yes

[frozen kestrel]

Alright. So now, I've got to find those with transparent backgrounds, because I just plan on lifting the decals from the thing and slapping them on the texture

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1777812419143663834

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD in 1941, USS North Carolina (BB-55) became the first new American battleship to be commissioned in 18 years. The North Carolina went on to take part in several battles including Philippine Sea, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. "Showboat" is now a museum in Wilmington, NC.

Twitter · Apr 9, 2024, 9:34 PM

[runic ermine]

Today is Vimy Ridge day

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHuigtCP3IU

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH4LcxFY3tY

[summer pendant]

Best girl.

[fierce sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99SiRxCkGp0

[frozen kestrel]

I was unable to find them with transparent backrounds

[runic ermine]

I need one of these

[spring briar]

Why

[runic ermine]

Why not

[spring briar]

I asked why

Answer why

[runic ermine]

Ok fine, it's just one of my favorite flags

[spring briar]

It’s a cool looking flag

But where would you even put it

[runic ermine]

In my room

[fierce sparrow]

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

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1778179062445273481

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

Happy National Siblings Day! This 1954 family portrait is from a rare occasion when all four sister Iowa-class battleships were together. From front to back is USS Iowa, USS Wisconsin, USS Missouri and USS New Jersey. All the ships are now museums.
#NationalSiblingsDay

Twitter · Apr 10, 2024, 9:51 PM

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1778199338965192761

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

In 1986, a gunner's mate took his oath of reenlistment while inside the barrel of a 16-inch gun on USS New Jersey (BB-62) as a unique way to show his pride in the battleship. The New Jersey's weapons officer got inside another barrel to administer the oath.
#WarshipWednesday

Twitter · Apr 10, 2024, 11:12 PM

[lament coral]

Cool ship ongod. Well all Iowa class tbf

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1778077533126214030

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD in 1963, 129 men were lost when the USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank during deep dive tests in the Atlantic Ocean. After being told about the disaster, the young son of skipper CDR John Harvey made this crayon drawing of the sub lying on the ocean floor.

Twitter · Apr 10, 2024, 3:08 PM

[digital mantle]

I need to identify the two vessels in this picture, primarily the smaller boat in the front.

Is it a IJN PT boat, Coast Guard Patrol ship, or some other kind of vessel? What class and model?

[warm minnow]

Looks Like Yamatoklass In the background

[digital mantle]

I thought so… thank you～♫!
A friend on a different server wanted info on the smaller boat as well.

[fierce sparrow]

https://fxtwitter.com/ronkainen7k15/status/1778327833812898136

[warm minnow]

US Mk 5 Special Mission Boat
According to x (twitter)

[steel rapids]

Ah yes the country that couldn't do much in ww1

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1778426360882495983

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD in 1945, a kamikaze struck USS Missouri (BB-63) during the Battle of Okinawa, leaving his plane's machine gun impaled in the flash suppressor of a Bofors 40mm. The attack caused minor damage but the Missouri shrugged it off and did not even alter her course.

Twitter · Apr 11, 2024, 2:14 PM

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1778449852189356087

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

Today is National Submarine Day. During WWII, 263 U.S. Navy submarines deployed on war patrols. This image of 52 submarines in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Mare Island in 1946 represents the same number of subs that went on eternal patrol after being lost in the war.

Twitter · Apr 11, 2024, 3:47 PM

[autumn sorrel]

Only the leadership, not its soldier

[steel rapids]

They try to control the Eastern front but ended up pulling half the German forces to help their ass out

[autumn sorrel]

Conrad was a dumbass

Same for his Italian counterpart

[steel rapids]

Hey lets trust the Allies and betrayed our friends

Fucking at the end of the war the allies don't keep their promise

[remote monolith]

friends is a strong word

Italy had already claimed many of AH's Adriatic territories so relation between the two is already not great, Germany spent a lot of efforts trying to keep the shaky treaty together

[autumn sorrel]

You can call the Astro Hun army a bit incompetent but their navy are absolutely example of professionalism

[remote monolith]

plus the alliances was defensive in nature anyway so Italy wasn't obligated to go to the Central Powers since they were the aggressors

[autumn sorrel]

Politician from all side of WW1 are dumbass

[steel rapids]

Real

The tactics trench warfare is not also great

[autumn sorrel]

Wilhelm, Nicholas and George at least tried their best to hold thing back for family sake but their cabinets and Ministers just crave for war

[autumn sorrel]

Trench Warfare is great

[steel rapids]

Sitting your ass in trench sinking in mud and talking to rats

Sounds great ha

[autumn sorrel]

And lets not forget the true villain of ww1, the Serbs

[autumn sorrel]

Beat getting blow apart by arty and machine gun.

[steel rapids]

Lets forget about them and beat the shit out of each other great politics

[steel rapids]

Crush by tanks smelling mustard

[autumn sorrel]

Honestly, just let the Balkans to do their shit and talk with anyone that survive in the end

[steel rapids]

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mxXvhuzl7g

[runic ermine]

Debatable

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW6ZssQR9g4

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1778553096215355663

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

Happy National Pet Day! Pets are generally not allowed on U.S. Navy ships, but exceptions are made when an aircraft carrier changes homeports. The carrier may then be used as a giant ferry to transport the crew's cars, dependents, and pets.
#NationalPetDay

Twitter · Apr 11, 2024, 10:37 PM

[lime scarab]

Could you also say that’s ww1 also happened because of naval arms race to build better warships form the opponents of Britain and Germany that tried to out flank each other?

[zealous vine]

Can someone help me find whether the British built an autoloading 16" gun capable of 15s reload?

[frozen kestrel]

Quick question: Since I'm modelling a (god I hope) accurate New Jersey, what year of the war would her configuration be (Between 1943-1945)?

[vale marten]

aint no way

[zealous vine]

Just copy-paste a side and top-down view of the ship

[junior trench]

... Which is why 1918 involved mobile warfare from both sides not seen since before the trench lines took form amirite. /S

[zealous vine]

Doesn't matter so much, the most significant differences between versions near the periods of ww2 / early post-war is the bridge

1943 vs 1944 vs 1952

And probably the sensory array

[zealous vine]

Courtesy of shipbucket

[frozen kestrel]

You know, sometimes I wonder just why the hell I do this to myself

[steel rapids]

That also

[zealous vine]

It takes time

This took me a month

In roblox

I expected more

[vale marten]

if you can find hull lines it makes stuff a lot simpler too ye
*this is yamato

each curve is a cutout of the ship at a specific point and you just connect the curves to get the hull shape

[grave ravine]

The arms race was certainly a major contributor to tensions between Britain and Germany, but it's also far from the only cause of war

[steel rapids]

That's why tank was invented

[remote monolith]

there's multiple factors contributing to WWI, not least the instability of Austria-Hungary as a government and the network of alliances that inadvertendly nudge things to a war going in order to validate them

[remote monolith]

tanks are only one part of it. You have aerial reconnaissance, creeping barrage and infantry coordinations as well

multiple tank only assaults already failed between 1917 and 1918, what breaks the German lines was close coordination between army branches helped by deteriorating German conditions on the field

[zealous vine]

?

[shy grail]

They didn't build it IIRC

Just some of the designs for 1945 Lion

[visual rover]

The Royal Netherlands Navy they have planned for new frigate future “Air-Defence and Command Frigate Batch II (design of De Zeven Provinciën class ADCF Batch II) https://marineschepen.nl/nieuws/Eerste-beeld-nieuwe-fregatten-100424.html

[ivory ridge]

76mm sovraponte spotted

[humble jewel]

Richelieu in New York

[manic latch]

US hardcarrying French

[maiden citrus]

it is friend

[runic ermine]

Who would you guys say is the best and worst commanders/generals of each army in certain Wars?

[manic latch]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Fredendall

[runic ermine]

And who's your pick for best?

[manic latch]

[somber knoll]

Bro ate too much of Rommel's cooking

[manic latch]

https://tenor.com/view/marshall-zhukov-death-of-stalin-marshall-zhukov-field-gif-25074374

[runic ermine]

And couldn't take the spaghetti

[somber knoll]

I wouldn't call it worse, but Bull Halsey decided to play cat and mouse with Ozawa was perhaps one of my biggest cope throughout the Pacific naval campaign

[runic ermine]

Tbh in ww2 alone there's A LOT of worst and best

In terms of generals

[visual rover]

Yeah this ship is will service in future if they did first laid down ship

[runic ermine]

My pick for best (Italy)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Messe

[steel rapids]

Italian generals focus going to the gym than going to the battlefield

[runic ermine]

And my pick for worse (Italy)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastiano_Visconti_Prasca

[runic ermine]

They had better ones than France TBH

However they also had a lot of the same problems

[steel rapids]

French tactical retreat

[visual rover]

Today 13 April 2002 (now: 2024) launched day/brithday of the frigate “HNLMS De Ruyter F804”

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrXmu6UdaT4

[zealous vine]

Wait so it was officially thought of

[shy grail]

Yes, they had the tech to do so

[vocal vine]

Oh look, Stella is legit now

https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/s/D8E4BTn6cg

[subtle prawn]

https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Media/News/Article-View/Article/3740334/us-navy-commemorates-keel-laying-ceremony-for-constellation-class-guided-missil/

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1778930876635660554

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD 1945, FDR died. One month later, USS Coral Sea was renamed in his honor. In 1950, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first carrier to take nuclear weapons to sea. The weapons would have been delivered by P2V Neptune bombers launched with "Jet-assisted take-off" (JATO).

Twitter · Apr 12, 2024, 11:39 PM

[humble jewel]

Bro has the British Empire mindset

[lime scarab]

Constellation keel has officially been laid down here is a YouTube video of the ceremony https://youtu.be/2uTUm-shCck?si=XHFOAxEYTSKiOnv1

It’s about 52:52 minutes not a long watch

[desert agate]

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

without a doubt the best commander of the war on either side

and thats not just nationalist wank

he was the first person to implement modern combined arms warfare in battle

he was effectively the inventor of combined arms warfare

[somber knoll]

Thought he was the namesake of the Monash the Uni

[desert agate]

yes they named Monash University in Melbourne after the man who was without any exaggeration the most famous Australian to have ever lived up to that point

it's hard to quantify just how popular he was but something like half of Melbournes population went to his funeral

[shy grail]

Yeah, he was famous for doing other engineering things as well which cemented his popularly

[somber knoll]

figured so

A college classmate got his Master's there.

[willow jungle]

If you let the Yugoslavians cook their own modification of the T-34.

Teski Tenk Vozilo A (Heavy Tank Type A).

[solid mango]

SmooT-34 85

[fierce sparrow]

https://fxtwitter.com/ronkainen7k15/status/1779173041924456623

[manic latch]

Soviet OSA-M 9K33 system

[digital mantle]

What are ROC Chi An’s historical accurate armament load outs? I can’t figure out what cannons and guns are…
Any of y’all know?

[naive crag]

They changed the guns a couple times during planning/construction.

They originally planned for Škoda 10cm single turrets, but CNT said they could increase it to 12cm/15cm twin turrets.

I think her rigging shows 15cm twins with 7cm/6.6cm secondaries

[runic ermine]

I understood this reference

[digital mantle]

Thank you so much!

[digital mantle]

Mind cluing us in?

[runic ermine]

Artic Convoys

[sullen canyon]

Wait, why is stuff that you could find in #al-lore over here in #history now?

[remote monolith]

the containment board is getting breached again

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1779323775143608438

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

During WWII, two officers were trying to pull rank to cut in line for ice cream when someone barked at them to wait their turn. As the officers looked to see who had dared to rebuke them, they spotted ADM Bull Halsey waiting in line with the rest of the sailors. #SeaStorySaturday

Twitter · Apr 14, 2024, 1:40 AM

[ivory ridge]

so true

[steel rapids]

What is this operation bargation

[shy grail]

Is this post PQ 17 counter attack at Stalingrad or Operation Bagration

[remote monolith]

relief supplies kinda indicate its the arctic convoys and not anything else

unless you think it refers to the Iranian land convoy

[steel rapids]

Im thinking it could bagration

Because bargation is like a revenge operation to beat the crap out of the German

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1779265467292455335

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

"Uh, Houston, we've had a problem." #OTD in 1970, Jim Lovell reported that Apollo 13 was experiencing a loss of operating voltage after a "pretty large bang." Overcoming their precarious situation, the crew safely splashed down on April 17 and were recovered by USS Iwo Jima.

Twitter · Apr 13, 2024, 9:48 PM

[remote monolith]

https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeontology/new-sauropod-dinosaur-specimens-australia/

@desert agate

wake up my boy a giant leap in Australian Mesozoic knowledge has appeared

https://peerj.com/articles/17180/

[remote monolith]

https://fxtwitter.com/TomHoltzPaleo/status/1778961133350903926

https://fxtwitter.com/TomHoltzPaleo/status/1778963681717686707

somehow Troodon returned

[fierce sparrow]

https://twitter.com/RyszardJonski/status/1778866758968807699

Junsupreme (@RyszardJonski) on X

It's the first time I see this photo.
It's apparently a training mock-up built in Poland in the 70s , on the T-34 tank hull , intended to familiarize Polish tankers with the image of the British FV4201 Chieftain tank.
Source: Chieftain Tank Appreciation Society/John Harris

Twitter · Apr 12, 2024, 7:24 PM

[remote monolith]

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2332997

also a new relatively small Titanosaur

name is very ambitious though, Titanomachya

[maiden citrus]

aw fricken yis

[manic latch]

Same

[spring briar]

Yay troodon is back

[maiden citrus]

somehow, troodon returned

[autumn sorrel]

Big dino

=big chicken

[remote monolith]

actually small chicken=small dinosaurs

this is because chickens are part of Aves, which diverged from Dinosauria somewhere in late Jurassic-early cretaceous

[ivory ridge]

[autumn sorrel]

Any Aves as big as T-Rex?

[remote monolith]

nope

there's a definite limit to how big members of Aves can be

[autumn sorrel]

[remote monolith]

the largest ones are generally the ratites for terrestrial birds and the terror birds of the Cenozoic, for flying birds you have Argentavis

[maiden citrus]

based terror birds, the legacy of theropods runs through me

[runic ermine]

Yes

[runic ermine]

This happened today in 1561

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1779593190913273880

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD in 1962, John F. Kennedy hosted foreign dignitaries aboard USS Enterprise to watch the Navy demonstrate the latest surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles against a drone. After the missiles failed to score a single hit, a dignitary asked if his country could buy the drone.

Twitter · Apr 14, 2024, 7:30 PM

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhwcfmMR9KI

[frozen kestrel]

I know it was 1960, but god damn the model of Bismarck they used for this movie was so fucking cursed

It just gets worse from different angles

[spring briar]

Looks like Scharnhorst

[solid mango]

[frozen kestrel]

It really does look like a Scharnhorst kit with the middle guns plated over, and I hate that I can't unsee that now

[steel rapids]

Wtf

[lime scarab]

How much did it cost to build the bismark class and her sister ship?

[wintry moat]

A lot

Hood in 1920 cost like six million pounds

[lime scarab]

So double that then

Because it would be Germany’s first captain ship after a long time

[wintry moat]

idk exact amount

[wintry moat]

Scharnhorst was iirc

[lime scarab]

Because that was probably what they could have afford at that time probably

[lime scarab]

It seems that tripitz was more expensive then her sister bismark

[shy grail]

KGV was about 43 k yearly wages, Bismarck/Tirpitz about 90k for reference, because direct conversion from monetary exchange rate is flawed

KGV however is smaller

[shy grail]

Both are about similar to an Iowa in wage hours

[alpine onyx]

Tirpitz' construction costs should only be marginally higher, if at all

[mental tapir]

https://fxtwitter.com/Kaito_KaiNi/status/1779580577336725737

Chonker

Sadly no Typhoon, Tempest, Hellcat or Corsair included

[naive crag]

You can always do it yourself with a little math
(Corsair, btw. Hellcat and Tempest are the same length as the Corsair)

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1779632526736175165

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD 1945, U-1206 was sunk by its toilet. Some accounts claim an engineer turned the wrong valve to flush, but the CO insisted it was a leaky head that caused the sub to become flooded with seawater and chlorine gas. Forced to surface, the sub was attacked and had to be scuttled.

Twitter · Apr 14, 2024, 10:07 PM

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1779695224509378661

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD 1943, U.S. Naval Intelligence decrypted a message that revealed the travel schedule for ADM Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. Four days later, P-38s flew 600 miles and shot down the plane carrying the man who had planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Twitter · Apr 15, 2024, 2:16 AM

[fierce sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL-dLeWvbss

[steel rapids]

Semi-auto: yeah good

Full auto: wtf is this shit

And it feels like the sight is about to punch your face

[ivory ridge]

https://fxtwitter.com/the_engi_nerd/status/1779876712391606549?t=BAqbNPb78wfS_XX1I7AVbw&s=19

[remote monolith]

the T95

yes

[steel rapids]

Turtle:)

[eternal veldt]

I mean, when you look at where the T28 is, it made sense how it was "lost"

Just be glad it wasn't scrapped unceremoniously, like the T26E4

[steel rapids]

Nice camouflage

[remote monolith]

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

no this is not a dinosaur

this is a therapsid

Taxonomic system is funny

it doesn't make sense

it runs on arbitrary rules

and it depends on the whims of individual researchers

[fierce sparrow]

27 years, as if how the hell did they not manage to see this T28 in a small bush...

[steel rapids]

Everyone is so fucking blind

[remote monolith]

this

this is how that ting should look like

that has no relations with this

they're different lineages

and yet because of one researcher not giving up on a name

we now have dinosaur and Dinosaurus

the bloody thing isn't even a lizard

its part of the mammal lineage

its like naming an amphibian mastodonsaurus-oh wait

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

of course someone bloody did that

[eternal veldt]

Or just simply that it wasn't worth looking for

[remote monolith]

and this is why the taxonomic naming system is a mess now

as long as you know latin and Greek you can pluck out any word and make it a genus name

and nobody can change these names

because the older name always takes precedence over younger ones

[maiden citrus]

birds are reptiles

it just works

[remote monolith]

and crocodiles descends from false crocodiles as it turns out

thank you Pseudosuchia very cool

[frozen kestrel]

https://fxtwitter.com/i/status/1779884143142203443

[solid mango]

5" / 38 dakka dakka gyattt

[frozen kestrel]

I honestly enjoy watching archival footage like this

[ornate wind]

Would a sonar ping liquify the human bits of a human torpedo?

[manic latch]

Doesn't Sonar shake you instead melting you

[manic latch]

https://vxtwitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1780021966340010245?t=pGl4He4l1F1RmC4zCKDXMw&s=19

[grave ravine]

not necessarily liquify, but sonar certainly can seriously injure or even kill divers

[ornate wind]

I imagine wwii era sonar wasn’t as powerful so maybe not as dangerous?

Probably still pretty bad though

This human torpedo business certainly seems pretty dodgy

Probably no way to use in open water for sure

[supple sandal]

The best thing came from operation Paperclip is now NASA still use metric

[supple sandal]

I don't get it

[maiden citrus]

it changes the name to rinkley ass

[runic ermine]

Boys being boys

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1780224137740365990

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD in 1945, USS Laffey came under attack by 2 dozen kamikaze. The ship shot down several aircraft but was struck by at least 6 planes and 4 bombs. Remarkably, the Laffey survived. In 2018, it was reported that Mel Gibson would direct a film about the Laffey titled DESTROYER.

Twitter · Apr 16, 2024, 1:18 PM

[steel rapids]

Damn

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1780388814457864499

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD in 1944, USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was commissioned, five months after the Japanese had claimed to have sunk the battleship in "one of the biggest sea battles." The Japanese then reported that the new Wisconsin was a substitute to cover up the loss of the "real" Wisconsin.

Twitter · Apr 17, 2024, 12:12 AM

[glass trail]

backup wisconsin

[paper birch]

Shouldn't that terrify them more?

They sank a BB, then you immediately replace it

[mental tapir]

They'll just sink them again, no worries. Their torpedo bombers and their pilots are the best in the world and definitely have not been attrited to nothing over previous battles.

[obtuse palm]

Given the countless time the US renamed ships for those that sunk, pretty plausible

[magic hill]

wtf they literally only ever sank american bbs in pearl harbour

[fierce sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyIcPl7sQUg

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BQHN480NEA

[steel rapids]

Tf is that stock

[hollow aurora]

looks like a half skeletonized ump stock

[steel rapids]

So broken

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DljH2f2mOx8

[steel rapids]

Because of confusion

[manic latch]

Information diff ye

[steel rapids]

Fr

I think its the recon intel that make the commander confuse

[obtuse palm]

And also the fact that:

Recon plane directly passed overhead Yorktown
Neither the recon plane nor Yorktown spotted each other

[runic ermine]

The Americans broke their naval codes

[steel rapids]

Bruh moment

[steel rapids]

Well it only help them know where the Japanese are going to attack

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1780746907997909455

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

One million tons of shipping are represented in this photo of U.S. Navy Task Force 58 at anchor at Majuro Atoll in 1944. Visible (among other ships) are three Independence-class light carriers, four Essex-class carriers, USS Enterprise, a South Dakota-class battleship, and two…

Twitter · Apr 17, 2024, 11:55 PM

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2zGF9FfIOo

[steel rapids]

The raid that Hornet participate

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN1ila70XX0

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w5BxDeSW24

https://fxtwitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1780965619631899013

[visual rover]

Today 19 April 2003 (now: 2024) launched day/brithday of the frigate “HNLMS Evertsen F805”

[remote monolith]

https://www.sci.news/paleontology/ichthyotitan-severnensis-12869.html

Ohchohoho

9hoho

They did it

They described the gargantuan Ichthyosaur

Now Ichthyotitan is officially the largest marine reptile discovered thus far

And its not even the actual largest because we have fragmentary remains of an Icthyosaur sizing up at 30 meters

Its simply not described yet

The specimen consists of fragments of a right surangular. Histological features suggest that the specimen was still growing, so was either a subadult or a young adult.

Jfc

[maiden citrus]

giant
triassic
icthy

those words can be used in a sentence like that? how exciting

triassic is not well known for true giants, so that's really cool

and 80feet certainly qualifies

[remote monolith]

Pretty much every single one of the gigantic Ichthyosaurs are from the Triassic, its funny, they seem to have never made it out of the time period. Also unlike blue whales these arent filter feeders, so theyre active hunters

Imagine what they eat to sustain these sizes

[maiden citrus]

that's a mystery I hope we genuinely figure out, why everything else started getting way bigger and these went nah we're good

and true, there had to be something easy to eat and extremely populated in the seas at the time for something like that

cephalopods diverged right before the triassic if I remember correctly

[remote monolith]

I believe so, yeah

we have evidence that ichtyosaurs do eat cephalopods

so early evolution of cephalopods before the Triassic might have helped them grow huge

illustration

this thing is MASSIVE

[maiden citrus]

chungus

[remote monolith]

like, people goes on about Mosasaurs, Megalodon, Pliosaurs but they overlook these fucking oversized reptiles that are also raptorial predators

[autumn sorrel]

They eating Livy

Or they could eat giant squid

[unkempt sedge]

https://youtu.be/jnMLYYQiMmo?si=5hiwU3-Ia2Xp9qzR

[fierce sparrow]

https://youtu.be/1DKeKAMCPVs?si=OJIC8KcWRg4lmqr7

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOb8BGXGP5I

[steel rapids]

Too expensive and they didn't have any strategic victory

And the citizen of the US protest

Putting pressure on the government to get the fuck out of Vietnam

And they suck at destroying trees

And we won

[manic latch]

Apocalypse Now is really best movie for it ngl

Colonel Kurtz's writings are gold as well

[steel rapids]

Yeah

Especially the helicopter attack part

[manic latch]

"Our bombs may in time destroy the geography, but they will never win the war"

[runic ermine]

This flag has an interesting story behind it

[frozen kestrel]

Why is Texas so... blue?

[junior trench]

https://www.shipcamouflage.com/measure_21.htm

[frozen kestrel]

Thanks

[steel rapids]

Looks like date back to the Russian empire

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1781476617354666248

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

In 1942, the P-class destroyer HMS Porcupine was torpedoed amidship by U-602. Porcupine was towed to a port where the damaged destroyer was cut in half to make two new ships—HMS Pork and HMS Pine.
#FunFactFriday

Twitter · Apr 20, 2024, 12:14 AM

[runic ermine]

It's the alleged flag of the Russian occupied Mykolaiv Oblast

And it has an interesting story behind it

[autumn sorrel]

I mean, yeah. US troop only do 1 tour and then leaves, there is no commitment to the cause other than to do their job and try to get out in one pieces. Contrast that to a PAVN soldier or NLF guerilla who has been there and fighting for yrs, indoctrinated and firmly believe in a final victory no matter the cost.

Frankly, US gov turn US overwhelm military might into a quagmire fest of an attritional war where they count body but no account to the morale. They count the wrong statistic and then act surprise when instead of more support, the war become even more unpopular back home and among the troop.

[steel rapids]

Hm

[steel rapids]

They were terrified by it

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1781504404329300022

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

When USS Missouri bombarded Saddam Hussein's forces in Kuwait in 1991, high-explosive 16-inch shells were chalked with messages of revenge for USS Tripoli and USS Princeton. The two ships had been damaged by Iraqi mines the previous week.
#FirepowerFriday

Twitter · Apr 20, 2024, 2:05 AM

[maiden citrus]

very based

[manic latch]

Ye https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNG_syndrome

FNGs were an important part of the group dynamic of U.S. units in Vietnam and their treatment had at its core an overall sense of "us" (those with experience of the war) and "them" (those who were back in the United States). As one soldier said, FNGs were "still shitting stateside chow". It was in combat units that the FNG was truly ignored and hated by his colleagues. An FNG in a combat unit was "treated as a non-person, a pariah to be shunned and scorned, almost vilified, until he passed that magic, unseen line to respectability"

[autumn sorrel]

I mean, yeah. Even PAVN also faced the same thing during and after the war. Hell, even the notorious hazing incidents in modern day PAVN are from older conscript bullying newer conscript.

Military environment build up a group mentality. It certainly build up a strong bond between those in a unit but to those who doesn’t fit in, it will be hell.

It used to be that you have to prove yourself in combat situations and be blooded to gain the acceptance. Now it is just based on seniority and who the bigger bully. Either you follow the group or you get ostracized and believe me, you don’t want to be a loner, or god forbid, a trouble maker. Because PAVN apply collective punishment, if one soldier in a squad make a mistake, the entire squad have to share the punishment. It is fine if you are in a tight group and everyone ready to take the fall or cover for you only that you have to be more careful in the future but if you a pariah, it quickly build up resentment in other and it can lead to nasty stuff.

[lime belfry]

the PAVN didnt face that problem in such a massive scale like after the war

because there was no "oldbie" in a PAVN TNG (Training) regiment during the war

the way recruit training backthen was that the moment an training regiment/battalion had finished its last field exercise, it marched South immediately

and another wave of recruit came in to form another new regiment/battalion

so really if you had just been drafted for the war you 99% would stay with people that got drafted at the same time as you

and not people that were drafted like a year before

of course there were a few exceptions to this

for example, the 59th training regiment of Hanoi command had an "incident" in 1971

that forced a few "oldbie" that was drafted in 1971 to stay

and the "newbie" that was drafted in 1972 met these guys

but this is just an exception that didnt make a rule

literally the only oldbies you ever would meet in any PAVN training units during wartime would be wounded veterans who returned to the North to recover and became training officers

and those guys were pretty well selected

there was no oldbie squadleader either like in modern day

back then squad leader and assistant squad leader enlisted the same time as their squad members

typically people who were somewhat educated were selected to be squadleaders

my source: Read veteran memoir

highly recommend "Quang Tri 1972" by Nguyen Quang Vinh and "Memory of a soldier" by Vu Chien

super realistic, didnt hold back all the shitty thing about the war

[remote monolith]

https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Cau_2024_BSPI_ONLINE.pdf

interesting paper from Andrea Cau

TLDR, Compsognathidae might not be an actual Dinosaur grouping

Andrea Cau proposed they might be simply juvenile samples of Megalosauridae

and Scipionyx might be a juvenile Spinosaurid

so these 2 animals might not be valid genuses and thus would have been assigned to different animals

thus, Compsognathidae is a paraphyletic grouping and should be retired from usage

Cau also offered several other different theropod groupings:

Herrerasauria as a basal monophyletic Theropod clade

Chilesaurus as a bizarre Tetanuran, as originally proposed

Noasauridae is a praphyletic grade, leading to Abelisauridae, which is significant, because it may help give a clearer image on enigmatic animals like Elaphrosaurus and Bahariasaurus.

Megaraptora recovered again as Tyrannosauroids

Therizinosauria and Ornithomimosauria are sister taxa

Scansoriopterygidae are Anchiornithids

Epidexipetryx possibly (unlikely) a synonym of Scansoriopteryx/Epidendrosaurus

The Yixian "Compsognathids" stay as basal Coelurosaurs

if his conclusions are supported then this might be one of the biggest clade shake up for theropods in recent times since several groups would be removed and recovered to others

also regarding ichthyosaurs, found this video and around minute 38 they mentioned what's known as Hector's ichthyosaur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtMFNxYN6qI

basically it was a humongous repitle found in the 19th century whose bones are now lost due to unknown circumstances, but we do have some data about them and the estimates leads to an animal about 40 meters long and 300 tons in weight

which would make it the largest animal ever

this thing is so obscure barely any Paleontology media pays attention to it

[maiden citrus]

whoa yeah, sad as Compsognathus is fun to say, but accuracy is accuracy

[maiden citrus]

[remote monolith]

the Hector's Ichthyosaur is just weird, its like the Amphicoelias of the sea. We don't have a lot of materials and what info we do have has that typical vagueness of 19th century Paleontology because they didn't have our advanced tools and generalized measurement system so the estimates is highly likely to be pure baloney

[maiden citrus]

'we have one bone from this sauropod species from south america, but we swear it was 180 feet and weighed 220 tons' syndrone

[remote monolith]

exactly

so Ichthyotitan is still the largest known confidently from known materials

[tropic prism]

Ship of the day (1/3): HTMS Thonburi...(Got banished here since I guess people in general don't like history..)

[autumn sorrel]

I heard from my uncles. One was mobilized in 1974 and participated in HCM Operation. He was demobilized right after the war end but was mobilized again in 78. Only during Cambodia that he mentioned the need to test out new guy but that was tame. Another one drafted after 79, for the border front. He was to reinforce a Commando unit, that where the FNG thing happen but once he got blooded, he don’t mention anything else.

[lime belfry]

yeah like I said sometimes after the Vietnam war PAVN recruitment method changed

it was never good to let newbie live with oldbie

[supple sandal]

So can we say that the Canadian help the world wrote the geneva convention?

[runic ermine]

Yes

[runic ermine]

I forgot to respond. My pick for best
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Currie

[fierce sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCLqwhz5YKE

[runic ermine]

Isn't that a Belgian tank destoryer

[steel rapids]

Damn your Grandpa participate alot, my grandpa only participate in '68 and then he got injured and never gone to war ever again

[subtle prawn]

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

[subtle prawn]

https://fxtwitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1781853423580725300
https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1781873357627032063

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

After putting a torpedo into a Japanese ship, the Avenger was hit by flak and was on fire. The crew was preparing to bail out but decided to wait a few minutes because they noticed they were directly over a Japanese battleship. The gunner then scared off the attacking Zeke and…

Twitter · Apr 21, 2024, 2:31 AM

[frozen kestrel]

Quick question: What's a good place to find some accurate information on exactly what happened during the Battle of the Denmark Strait?

Like visual graphs of ship directions, timing of salvos, etc.

[autumn sorrel]

Uncles, my grandpa was 1st Indochina War vet

[steel rapids]

Ah

[shy grail]

Unfortunately there a large disagreement in the exact firing times between the German and British ships, although the Hood association has a good list of resources http://www.hmshood.org.uk/history/denmarkstrait/resource.htm

[obtuse palm]

More to come. If you have a realistic theory, send it to us. If it follows the basic known facts, we will gladly post it here.

I wonder how much junk got sent their way before they bolded the text

[desert agate]

too many wehrbs wanking Bismarck being the worlds greatest warship

[shy grail]

This should be pinned tbh

[obtuse palm]

Believe it originated (among other things) because of the assumption that WH armour was as good as STS (it was not), making the turtleback resist far better than before the recalculation (post recalculation as shown on Nathan Okun's page now)

[alpine onyx]

It 99% originated from the coincidential cooperation between German and British wartime propaganda, both touting Bismarck beyond what she was. The British so they could more easily justify the loss of their flagship, the Germans so they could try and save face. Add that post-war the Western forces allowed German higher rankings to keep spreading their side (more like lie) of the story, and you have a nutritious ground for the Bismarck myth to keep growing

[willow jungle]

USS Gyatt (DD-712), a Gearing-class Destroyer.

The ship was named for Edward Earl Gyatt, a United States Marine Corps private and Marine Raider who was killed during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

[fierce sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7CXpC2oXk

[manic latch]

Proof?

She survived Nazi bombings in ww2

She will do it again

[manic latch]

As said

This ship was bombed in ww2 by Nazi forces

We are talking about a ship that's old as Uss Texas

TEXAS

She won't be abandoned

What kind of reality you live in

We are in 2024 not 2022

Like this whole thing comes from twitter

What do you mean by expendable?

I think you are confusing the meaning of desperation

Can you explain why they cannot repair her?

[naive rampart]

@manic latch The video came from a Russian. And Russian can’t repair them because they don’t have the spare parts and the knowledge to make new ones, as they were either built in a nation that is either no longer under Russian control (like Ukraine or Poland) or they are a century old and all the plans and knowledge was destroyed in the several wars since

[manic latch]

Chief you do realize she doesn't use alien tech right

This ain't warhammer 40k

[runic ermine]

Against france right

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1782108749458505923

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD in 1952, the U.S. Navy suffered its single greatest loss of life during the Korean War when an explosion in a turret on USS Saint Paul (CA-73) killed 30 crew, The ship was firing at targets in North Korea when a projectile was rammed into an already loaded gun.

Twitter · Apr 21, 2024, 6:06 PM

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1782135669537587466

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

Like a mother hen with her chicks, the submarine tender USS Holland (AS-3) is shown here in the 1930s with 12 subs.
#SubSunday

Twitter · Apr 21, 2024, 7:53 PM

[frozen kestrel]

https://twitter.com/HiddenHistoryYT/status/1782056593124929986

Hidden History (@HiddenHistoryYT) on X

Battleship USS Missouri July 1944.

Twitter · Apr 21, 2024, 2:39 PM

[steel rapids]

Well yes its against France

[autumn sorrel]

Yes

[autumn sorrel]

Kommuna?

[runic ermine]

The only damaged ship that is out of action for the war is the submarine Rostov-on-Don

Because it's pretty badly damaged but not unrepairable

[fierce sparrow]

https://fxtwitter.com/JonHawkes275/status/1782374137270284326

[manic latch]

War thunder: Impossible

[steel rapids]

Fuck you tree

[lethal edge]

same with my grandad

1st indochina and vietnam war vet

pass away 2 years ago due to old age

he used to give me 5 cent indochina coin date back 1939 but i lost it

born same province of Ho Chi Minh

[subtle prawn]

https://fxtwitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1782500107197325802

[spring briar]

Training good

[runic ermine]

What's the most lethal offensives in history

[manic latch]

Maybe this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusilov_offensive

Estimate reaching Million casualties on both sides

[runic ermine]

I was thinking that too

I also thought of the Somme, German Spring Offensive, Hundred Days offensive, Operation Barberosa, Operation Bagration, 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive

[junior trench]

???

What kind of fucking "arson, murder, and jaywalking" list is that?

[runic ermine]

It's incomplete

[junior trench]

it's fucking idiotic is what it is

[runic ermine]

Also arson, murder, jaywalking pretty much sums up an offensive

[tough quail]

I think it has something to do with the previous offensives having multiple times the casualties alone than the entire war the last one is attached to

[ivory ridge]

Ukranian offensive making the list but the russians vuhledaring™️ several times per month is all well and good

[runic ermine]

I SAID IT WAS INCOMPLETE

Please read people

[ivory ridge]

It's still wrong

and stupid

[runic ermine]

I was listing stuff off cuz I was rushing out the door

[ivory ridge]

you cant talk about the "most lethal offensives" and put something that at worst gets to middling tens of thousands with ones that made several hundred thousands

[runic ermine]

I haven't made the list yet. I was just jolting down ones I was thinking of

It's incomplete

[ivory ridge]

you didnt make the list, but you made a list in that message lol

[junior trench]

I can think some something else incomplete

[runic ermine]

A list of ideas. Not THE list

[ivory ridge]

again

[runic ermine]

You're going to say my face aren't you

[ivory ridge]

the message is there

im talking about that message

nothing else

i dont care about a supposed other list

but that message's list is still dumb

[runic ermine]

Ok sorry for the confusion. My "list of most lethal offensives" isn't complete. That list was just ones I had thought about cuz I remembered them off the top of my head

[junior trench]

I'm really hoping this is a Poe

[runic ermine]

A poe?

Like from zelda

[junior trench]

stop pinging me dingus

[runic ermine]

Sorry

[tough quail]

bagration: the in depth annihilation (alongside the romp through Normandie at the same time) of the Wehrmachts capability to effectively wage war

the counter offensive last year: like ten thousand guys blow up to the tune of Slavic yakety sax

[runic ermine]

Wait you guys could help make the list

it would be funny and educational

[junior trench]

the public opening of clubs has been an unmitigated disaster

[runic ermine]

Ok?

Seems kinda odd to bring up

[junior trench]

exhibit J

[tough quail]

really though ww1 and 2 are going to absolutely dominate the list just through sheer ridiculous scale of fighting

and then like

Uhh

Insane Chinese civil wars

[junior trench]

China

[runic ermine]

But those were Long

[tough quail]

three hundred thousand civilians eaten

[runic ermine]

The ming to Qing transition was 80 years

80 years of civil war

[junior trench]

being doesn't even remember the parameters of the alleged list

tens of thousands must die in some random battle on the yellow river

[runic ermine]

Good idea. Parameters need to be set

[tough quail]

does the great leap forward count as a cultural offensive

[runic ermine]

No

[junior trench]

ping me again and I just block you

[runic ermine]

Man try to industrialized country, 60-80 million perish

[runic ermine]

1. An armed force is attacking another force with strategic goals in mind
2. Is referred to as an offensive, counteroffensive, or operation
3. High casualties (KIA, WIA, DOW, MIA etc.)

Anything I forgot?

[manic latch]

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Siege_of_Terra

Likely the most lethal offensive

[tough quail]

shit boy I die

[manic latch]

Ant-20 Fren

[tough quail]

I love you ye olden arsenal bird

[steel rapids]

My god wtf im going to lose my mind

[frozen kestrel]

Do these fuckers on the top just fall off and break the vertical stabilizer? Like, what the hell?

[manic latch]

Why would they

[frozen kestrel]

Talking about the two in the middle

[manic latch]

Doesn't matter

Bomber ain't faster than fighter

[frozen kestrel]

Just got a 75mm shell casing

[steel rapids]

Who ever designed this needs to touch some grass

[lime scarab]

Hey I’m wondering but why did general graf spew decode to raid in trade lines even though he probably knows he could never make it back to Germany In ww1?

[wintry moat]

are you talking of why he went to the Falkland islands?

[lime scarab]

Yes

[wintry moat]

if I remember right, it was to raid the coal stores and damage infrastructure the British had on the island

[junior trench]

He couldn't stay in the Pacific if that's what your asking

The IJN was hostile, and had some very vicious battlecruisers

[lime scarab]

I’m asking why did he take the risk event though he know there’s a chance where he will never get home

[junior trench]

He never gets home if he stays

The German ports available in the Pacific are gone

The IJN is patrolling around and all 4 Kongos are running about

[lime scarab]

So basically his lay mission was a sucide mission then

[wintry moat]

Plus, weren't his ships in a ragged state

[wintry moat]

More of “I can't be here so I'm gonna cause trouble over there”

[junior trench]

Maybe there could have been a better outcome for him if he'd run for German East Africa immediately, keeping in mind the ships are doomed regardless

But East Africa and the Indian Ocean is also swarming with British ships

While heading for the Atlantic there's not much to worry about until you round the cape

Or get close to Chile as things happened

[lime scarab]

O ok, by the way what was his ship called again

[wintry moat]

Gniesenau, Scharnhorst, the WW1 versions, and Emden, as well as a few others

which inevitably end up fighting Invincible and Inflexible

the two Scharns I mean

Which was basically a one sided stomp

not to say Spee was incompetent

but he just got hard countered by Invinc and her sister ship

when your enemy is bigger, faster, hits harder and is less susceptible to your own guns

there's not a lot you can do

[lime scarab]

@wintry moat did you here they found ww1 Scharnhost shipwreck by the way

[wintry moat]

I did not

that's awesome

what's the condition of them?

[lime scarab]

I think they only found Scharnhost

[wintry moat]

how much of her is left?

[lime scarab]

Here @wintry moat https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lEHv1Liajo0

[wintry moat]

Yooo

that's so cool

[lime scarab]

She doesn’t look what she used too and very corroded but it’s still her

Lost you here?

[wintry moat]

Yup

I'm here

Playing a game with a friend

[lime scarab]

O ok nice

[autumn sorrel]

That got me wonder, do they kill 300k people right away then preserve their meat using salting and smoking or they use ballot to decide who got eaten each day?

[undone siren]

https://www.ddinstagram.com/p/C6CfiAeSkPr/ woah check this out

[manic latch]

@autumn sorrel Kommuna is fine

Survivor of 2 world wars of course will survive an anti ship missile

[autumn sorrel]

[runic ermine]

Yeah

[signal wave]

I find it funny that the 1914 Ark Royal lasted longer then the 1938 Ark Royal

[runic ermine]

And that the one that lasted less is more famous

[signal wave]

The 1914 one did some interesting stuff too

[signal wave]

Probably the most interesting was the fact she was there, tho under a different name, when Royal Oak sank

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjjXRRd3wzM

[night patrol]

Good news.

[steel rapids]

Angle the tiger dammit

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1782741311507800286

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD in 1949, the Truman administration canceled construction of the the first supercarrier, USS United States. Ironically, the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) was laid down in 1993 as the USS United States but was changed as part of the compromise to name CVN-76 for Ronald Reagan.

Twitter · Apr 23, 2024, 12:00 PM

[glacial perch]

I think it would be interesting to have azure lane extend into the Cold War. Or possibly have an AL style game set in the Cold War

[steel rapids]

And modern times

[glacial perch]

Not shure about modern but Cold War shipfus would be interesting

[steel rapids]

Sure

They all have nuclear missile

[glacial perch]

Not necessarily plus I imagine nukes would be hella expensive

[steel rapids]

Lol

[narrow rover]

Everybody basically has big fat metal dildos in the cold war and uhh...

[steel rapids]

Ayo

[obtuse palm]

Isn't that what a torpedo is anyways?

[narrow rover]

Y E S S

Also I'm the guy people thought you were lmfao

[obtuse palm]

Oh yeah saw that

Btw did you just get banned again?

[narrow rover]

🙂 asked what happened 2 months ago when I got initially kicked out
No plans to go back

Anyway if someone accuses you of being my alt again just copy paste this convo lol

[steel rapids]

[supple sandal]

Totally not an alt that just talking with another alt

[shrewd pecan]

Issue with Cold War combat is that it just devolves into flinging missiles at other ships even during the 50s with Talos and the navies first guided missile cruisers

At a certain point you get advanced enough in which two opponents who can’t even see each other outside of radar detection are flinging missiles at 70-90 KMs at each other

Number gets up to around 300 KMs once you get around the late 70s-80s

Basically just devolves into the type of combat who psychopaths who play rule the waves 3 or CMO enjoy

[strong sable]

Only the 2 giants can afford this kind of combat style....

[shrewd pecan]

Now like anime personification game probably doesn’t matter since you can take as many creative liberties as you want

But any accurate interpretation of missile combat just devolves into who either hits first or whoever has the deepest missile magazines winning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston-class_cruiser

your most powerful surface combatant will be a modified Baltimore and whatever carriers she's escorting

that or a modified Cleveland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston-class_cruiser

ngl the late Baltimore conversions did go kinda crazy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany-class_cruiser

shame that RTW3 doesn't let me make battle cruisers or heavy cruisers without main guns

[obtuse palm]

May I ask you how much do you know about SG?

[fierce sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwiMiVXN0Dw

[steel rapids]

Oh look the BF1 juggernaut weapon

[steel rapids]

Why couldn't i think about real life than this game

[runic ermine]

Sentry

[steel rapids]

I call him juggernaut cause he's heavy he have armor so yeah

[runic ermine]

One of the funniest events in history
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War

[visual rover]

HNLMS De Ruyter F-804 [2004]
(De Zeven Provinciën class Air-Defence and Command Frigate)
She sail to near Plymouth

[steel rapids]

Better than the pig war and the dog war

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVw-frCHou8

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baJBXE63M1w

[dull pier]

new vid W

[signal wave]

Bowler jumpscare

[subtle prawn]

https://fxtwitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1783208844820426881

[runic ermine]

https://youtu.be/Fh-Zt4l8UpU?si=-ou6Qfu-IG9V5gIF

[steel rapids]

Over a hundred casualties for 2 km

[runic ermine]

I do like how he mentioned the Newfoundland regiment taking 91% casualties

[steel rapids]

Hm interesting

[visual rover]

Royal Netherlands Navy De Zeven Provinciën class Air-Defence and Command Frigate: “HNLMS Tromp F-803” in the Red Sea

[runic ermine]

Today is the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Where over 1.5 million Armenians were massacred by the Ottoman Empire

[fierce sparrow]

https://fxtwitter.com/ChungTzuW/status/1782938097144971612

[hearty dune]

Great history channel

[subtle prawn]

https://fxtwitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1783298523821224043

[lime scarab]

Quick question but how badly damage was amgia from the Kanto earthquake that caused the Japanese government to go to kaga to be converted into an aircraft carrier?

[obtuse palm]

The hull was bent significantly, I believe a photo was posted of it that showed the damage but I can't access it now

[narrow rover]

I remember something about her being dislodged from the blocks that held her up in the slipway

Looking at this the hull looks... twisted?

[desert agate]

Today we remember those Australians and New Zealanders who fought, those who live with the scars, physical and mental and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in conflicts across the world from the Boer war until the present day

Today is the 109th Anzac Day since the original ANZACS landed on the beaches of Gallipoli in a campaign that saw 10'000 of them never leave

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Lest We Forget

[maiden citrus]

[steel rapids]

[glass trail]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w5LSkzu3MUU

what the dog is this

[narrow rover]

The governors knew they had to build infrastructure in Korea because... well... there aren't a whole lot of resources there except human capital
But the Japanese Army didn't like it, so what they did wasn't really enough.

[manic latch]

@tough quail

American: Coca-Cola, Bombing Berlin

Soviets: Fren

[tough quail]

beautiful

this is the good shit

[subtle prawn]

https://fxtwitter.com/webflite/status/1778106865546612993

[tawny lava]

Today is Italian liberation day, where we celebrate our liberation from fascist dictatorship and nazi occupation🇮🇹

[manic latch]

vintage fascist Italian World War Two poster - Fratricidio! / Fratricide - featuring an Italian soldier wearing a torn and bloodied uniform and holding his rifle gun forward as he moves forward on his knees in front of two characters in uniform depicting the American and British military laughing and pointing at him in the background, the slogan in bold red painted style letters below. Artwork by Gino Boccasile (1901-1951) who produced propaganda posters for the fascist leader Mussolini and the Italian Social Republic during WWII

USA:

[chilly osprey]

Yup, definitely seems like something appropriate to post immediately after someone posts in honor Italian Liberation Day /s

[eternal veldt]

@desert agate one for you

[tawny lava]

Lmao

[desert agate]

thats a cool one, definitely like it

[runic ermine]

Nothing

Literally nothing

[runic ermine]

Tbh the RSI did better in Combat than people give them credit for

[runic ermine]

Happy Anzac day

[fierce sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poc0SNkXVvs

[grave ravine]

At what, being a Nazi puppet regime?

[steel rapids]

That's so simple lol

Just say Stalin, stripes and cokes lol

[runic ermine]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Garfagnana

[tawny lava]

Didn't do them any good in the end

Thankfully

[steel rapids]

Luckily the weather went against the Germans and it ended in stalemate but it also stop the allies from continue advancing

From there open up the plane for Normandy

[grave ravine]

I uh think rather than the minor counteroffensive it was you know the massive fortified line they attacked from that stopped the allies from advancing

[steel rapids]

Oh i didn't know that

[grave ravine]

I would be inclined to agree that Italians generally performed better than they are given credit for in the war, but that wasn't unique to the RSI, nor does this action really illustrate much of anything

[runic ermine]

I know. I just wanted to point out that battle specifically and how it was quite impressive

[runic ermine]

It did them good until the Spring Offensive in 1945

[tawny lava]

It's interesting that today of all days is when we have to give credit to the RSI but i guess that's just me

[runic ermine]

Yeah maybe it is bad timing but I think my great grandfather would understand

[tawny lava]

Where did he serve?

[runic ermine]

Italian army ww2

I think also the civil war though he never really liked talking about either

He apparently told my grandfather who also served in the Italian army in the 60s to "go find a book" whenever he asked about the war

[tawny lava]

Fair enough

Must have been hell for him

I had a relative who was also in the italian army, he was MIA in russia

Likely killed

[runic ermine]

I think he may have had PTSD

[tawny lava]

It's entirely possible

Well, the way i see it, it's all the more reason to celebrate the fact it's all over

Onore ai caduti

[runic ermine]

Agreed

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbiEW7FHmQQ

[desert agate]

In what world is Anzac Day a happy occasion?

There is nothing happy or joyous about remembering those who fought and died in war

[runic ermine]

Yeah my bad I'm sorry

[desert agate]

We do not celebrate war we treat it with sorrowful respect

[runic ermine]

You're right

I'm sorry

[runic ermine]

Imagine if we all got together and played this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Campaign_for_North_Africa

[steel rapids]

Man i wish they make kards but in real life

A real card game

[unkempt sedge]

https://youtu.be/PXwbmkS9kYA?si=iT9K41wQh6ATmZ1Y

[manic latch]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_London_(1915)

[chilly flower]

Why are you posting this a day after Italian Liberation Day

[runic ermine]

The fucking brits lied

[manic latch]

Because it was concluded today

[runic ermine]

True the treaty was signed today

[fierce sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxHN4AINawc

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G8eZwAoQfM

[steel rapids]

Three Germans walked into a bar

[remote monolith]

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-gigantic-jurassic-raptor-footprints-unearthed.html

more giants for this year

2023-2024 has been super wild

[manic latch]

Yeah I got Soyuz

[tacit sage]

At Charleston seeing Yorktown and Laffey today

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1783884567260139928

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

#OTD in 1952, USS Wasp (CVA-18) collided with destroyer minesweeper USS Hobson (DMS-26) while conducting night flying operations. Wasp lost a 75-foot chunk of bow, but Hobson was split in two and went down with 176 men. It was the greatest loss of life on a Navy ship since WWII.

Twitter · Apr 26, 2024, 3:43 PM

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1783942127577080032

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) on X

In what became known as the "Battle of Jutland 1964", USS Essex managed to thwart a Soviet spy trawler by becoming a giant skunk. Waiting until upwind, Essex blew the tubes from its boilers and covered the trawler with smelly waste. The trawler turned and fled.
#FunFactFriday

Twitter · Apr 26, 2024, 7:32 PM

[maiden citrus]

welcome

[supple sandal]

Wikipedia editor waiting intensely just to edit 48 years to 49

[autumn sorrel]

Next year it will be 50 and it will be hilarious

But they prob don’t need to fix it themselves, could run a simple script to update all the date base on current calendar

[supple sandal]

Nah they definitely do it manually so they can feel like they did something

[tacit sage]

My phone died midway through yesterday, so I only got pictures of half the stuff on the Yorktown, and didn't get any inside the Laffey. However, while I didn't get pictures inside the Laffey, I did get a picture of it from above on the Yorktown.

[tacit sage]

Welcome? Oh, do you live in SC or work on the Yorktown?

[maiden citrus]

live in SC, nearby, been a lot

[tacit sage]

Nice, I visit SC every once in a while to see family, I just decided to go to see Patriot's Point this time since I didn't get to go the last few times. It's my first time going to Patriot's Point though.

This was all the different planes they had on the lower level. At least the ones I got pictures of before my phone died

[wintry haven]

I'm curious

Is 18 inch cannon has the same size with 46cm cannon?

[desert agate]

Jump on google and type 18in to cm real quick and there’s your answer

[wintry haven]

So we can say that 46cm Yamato gun isn't 457 then?

Cause I've encountered many people say that yamato gun is actually 18 inch like rest of others nation.

[manic latch]

It's called 18.1 for a reason

[manic latch]

Because it's easier to type

And changes nothing

Dumbass Wows overmatch mechanic made people look in closer eye

[eternal veldt]

The official designation of Yamato's main artillery is the 40cm (intentionally mislabelled) Type 94

Actual bore diameter is 46cm, Japan uses metric, not imperial calculations for caliber

[glacial perch]

Two interesting feats of uss midway’s career come from her service in the Vietnam war. The first and last air to air kills of that war were scored by f-4 phantoms from midway. And impressively during that same war she landed all of her aircraft whilst in a typhoon