Han (The Preble) shot first.
Everyone knows these lasers can’t hit anything on this flat earth. It needs to aim so far down the water will refract it unless you’re within like 20 feet.
Damn, I thought only Yamato class could carry wave motion guns
Considering that they’re gonna give infantry shotguns to shoot down drones , I like where this universe is going
Who would win?
New Navy with line of sight laser weapon (3 mile range to horizon), or this smokey boy throwing 2,000 lbs of steel over the horizon.
I don’t know. Can the laser shoot artillery shells out of the air?
Nope. It can only melt them.
That does not make any sense at all. If you can melt through an artillery shell’s wall, you trigger the explosives inside it. The shells end up exploding miles away from your ship’s hull. Maybe you’ll end up with some inert metal fragments falling down on your ship’s deck, but it’s not going to do any damage except maybe minor injuries to unarmored personnel standing on the deck.
It can’t melt through such a large mass of steel in the short time it has before it hits. The lasers are meant for missiles which have very thin metal walls. Also, the AP rounds aren’t explosive. They’re a solid mass of steel.
Huh. Learn something new every day.
Not if they are cannon balls. Checkmate lasers.
I mean…I don’t think any naval ship manufactured after 1870 has much to fear from cannon balls.
That picture is the closest representation of what hellfire must be without entering nuclear territory. For sheer display of power, that is that, in my opinion.
They are sending so much hate that the entire ship was pushed sideways, look at the wake off the bow.
That’s only minimaly due to sideways movement. Much more important is that the shockwaves are pushing water down creating a terracing effect.
Quick, someone remind me which ship it was that was starting to sink so they just shoveled water to one side do they could extend the range of their weapons and effectively become an extra artillery team during WWII (was that the siege of Normandy?)
Man the US was so much cooler when it stood for something
You mean when it was great?
I wouldn’t call it great, but at least they put up a facade. And the actual action, as cool as it was, shouldn’t have ever needed to happen and was therefore pretty not great.
Don’t pin your bullshit on me :)
Man the US was so much cooler when it stood
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The fight against the wrong type of racism?
I mean we can be cynical about what it was, but it’s plain to see that people actually cared and worked together when we had the facade of caring about freedom. As we become more divided and cynical, as we push each other away and become more aware of the injustices around us without taking the steps to affect them, we clearly become less effective all the way down to the individual level
“Burn to oblivion. I have places to be.”
Probably the ship, if it was sentient.
Sending *freedom.
FTFY
Fun fact: The US ha a Hellfire missile that doesn’t even explode. It’s meant to hit one person and kill them while limiting casualties in the proximity.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/agm-114r9x.htm
Ah yes, the knife gun.
Knife MISSILE, CIVVIE
So it’s essentially a rocket propelled
rockknife block?It is like a rocket propelled slap chop to one person that shouldn’t exist meaningfully to the horror of the person sitting next to them.
The hop-and-chop
If you don’t need accuracy, the Age of Sail beats this easily. This boy has 12 cannons, the Santísima Trinidad had 140.
A broadside must have been spectacular.
All of the Trinidad’s iron cannon balls would bounce off the 12" steel armor of the Iowa battleship.
All of Trinidad’s throw weight is less than a single 16".
Trinidad Total throw. 1510lbs.
Missouri single barrel single shot weight. HE 1900lbs AP 2700lbs.
Total throw weight. HE 17,100lbs AP 24,300lbs and that’s ignoring all secondaries and AA and later added missiles. Missouri could throw the total weight all of Trinidads cannons themselves in a single broadside. Oh and that’s throwing it 24mi…
The laser is for drones or missiles. Missiles are used for ships, which outrange battleships by a large margin, hence why they’ve been phased out of service. One jet can sink a ship hundreds of miles from its carrier.
It has been suggested before that we might one day see a return of the battleships. The one technology that might allow it is truly effective rail gun technology. I remember seeing a story years ago speculating that such a ship parked of the coast of North Korea might be able to lodge shells anywhere onto the Korean Peninsula from well offshore.
Missiles are always likely to have their advantages, including range and maneuverability. But the potential advantage of railguns is a very cheap cost per shot. And instead of a ship’s hold full of explosive-stuffed missiles, your ship has a reactor, a bank of capacitors, and a whole bunch of shells that are little more than big slugs of inert metal.
This article for example suggests a potential railgun range of 200 km.
Us truly mastering railguns is one of the few scenarios that we might actually see a return of the old battleships. Except instead of artillery shells, they’ll be lobbing railgun slugs. And instead of being protected by foot-thick steel armor, they’ll be protected by a porcupine lattice of laser defense systems.
How would a battleship defend itself against railguns?
Or would this be a “whoever shoots first wins” scenario?I’m not sure. Assumedly, the same way it would protect itself against ballistic missiles.
Doing an aikido roll at the last moment?
*If funded by the USA.
The US took out a third of Iran’s navy during Operation Praying Mantis and we tried not to while giving them ample opportunity to not get fucking wrecked with minimal effort.
We won’t fund healthcare, but our unhealthcare is second to nobody because we spend 9x more than the 2nd place loser, Russia. We account for 40% of total world military spending. If you think we can’t kill you, it is only because we don’t want to prove how wrong you are. If you want to die, we can put a warhead on your forehead without a rounding error of our defense budget.
Unhealthcare… wow.
What’s a DuckDuckGo Flight IIA Aegis Combat System Integration?
He will not divide us flag be like
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Do you believe that the military is telepathically controlled by the head of the DOD and Hegseth, new to the position, was unable to manage his new psychic powers effectively enough to avoid the collision?
If you knew anything about the military, you would know how it is a constant shit show of chaos that has a thin veneer of order.
The military has dropped nukes on US soil by accident and just straight up lost them. One of them fell on a New Jersey farmer’s field and it buried itself into the ground so deep that they gave up looking for it. The government ended up buying the land and fencing it off. That wasn’t the only nuclear oopsie we had had.
Friendly fire incidents, look at the War in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If you Google non-combat military accidents, you will find pages of incidents.
If you think the military is an efficient and well oiled machine, you need to stop watching the recruitment commercials or stop believing the lies the recruiter will tell you.
Too credible, reported
Now tell us about all the shitty things the UK did.
What are you insinuating? It was perfectly justifiable to put our own soldiers right next to every single nuclear test we did, including flying aircraft and sailing ships through mushroom clouds, then withholding the soldiers’ medical records so they couldn’t prove radiation exposure and still to this day aren’t eligible for compensation.
See most of UK history.
I didn’t know anything about Hegseth, so I looked up his Wikipedia page to get an idea. While I did find extremely troubling concerns regarding his beliefs for a person in his position, I didn’t find anything that had to do with incompetence. He seems to be effective at whatever he does. He made Major, was awarded a Bronze Star, volunteered for deployment…all admirable achievements if they are valid (could have been invalidly attained). He might have a drinking problem, but I didn’t see any claims where he has jacked something up because of it. It said that he’ been drunk or hung over at Fox News, which is not strange for the military population since many like their drink. I’ve known heavy drinkers that get things done better than sober people, though their personal lives are a disaster. All that is to ask the honest question, why would Hegseth’s reputation, especially in the first month of a transition, imply some sort of mismanagement oh his part that lead to a terrible, highly unusual, and avoidable operational mishap?
Please mind rules 5 & 6
I just want nuclear pumped laser missiles, god, is it too much to ask?
Space-based nuclear-pumped X-ray laser, and that is our final offer
When the ship suddenly goes ka … me … HA … ME
I don’t know my ships, but please tell me that’s a destroyer to complete the scene perfectly.
You’re in luck.
That is, in fact, an Arleigh Burke class destroyer.
