The USS US
Us sus?
Wow I just realized us makes up us. Crazy how words be sometimes
That’s because of the way it is.
Always has been 👦 🔫 👩🚀
USS Healthcare for All
so THATS where the budget went
“FIRE ALL PORT SIDE GUNS!”
does barrel roll
Spins so fast it generates the energy needed to power the entire ship.
The spin creates a tsunami to deliver even more damage.
Try spinning, that’s a good trick
Worked great in pirates of the Caribbean
No. NOPREQUELS. NO.
that’s why it has a dozen anchors on each side of the hull. proper preparation prevents piss poor projectiling.
And stops your pewpew from making you go plunk.
That’s why navies stopped using broadsides and went to turrets about 150 years ago. Well, it’s one of the reasons anyway. Turrets also worked a lot better once you shifted to steam power and didn’t have to worry so much about rigging. Additionally, you could mount a much bigger gun on a turret than you could using broadsides on the sides of a wooden sailing ship.
Turrets also prevent what happened to the Vasa, which was the most powerful sailing ship of its time. Its time being 10th August 1626, from 3:40 pm to four o’clock. The king of Sweden ordered it to be made longer, halfway through building it. This scope creep turned out to have negative implications vis-a-vis keeping the gun ports above the waterline.
Just mind the small thermal exhaust port for the reactor
that’s an anus
If someone shoves a proton torpedo up my anus i’d probably blow up as well to be fair
Let the record show this
That’s America’s anus.
I thought that was Ryan Seacrest?
Healthcare? 🙅
This? 👀
They probably have a med bay
I’m not sure about the quality of the welding near the waterline.
I mean we don’t have an issue with super-super super super super firing turrets with no apron turrets or near main secondaries?
So looking at a map.of New Yorks bays and ignoring depth and bridges I’m going to assume this is about 2 miles long or 10,560ft. I have no evidence and just eyeballed it.
Meaning if you can overcome the skin friction it has a hull speed of about 160mph…without planing.
Modern carriers have a hull speed in the neighborhood of 45mph (though officially the top speed is like 35mph) and normally cruise at 25-30mph so the slow pokes can keep up.
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I, too, prefer my measurements in knots uwu
The average person has no reference for what a knot is. I know and you know, but the layman doesn’t. Plus I figured anyone that wants knots can figure it pretty quick.
Even with that I still don’t get it. Is that a theoretical max speed?
So, as I understand it, a boat (ship) operating in displacement mode is going to be the most efficient, up until that speed. Past that most of the additional power you put in is going into just shoving water out of the way that really doesn’t want to, rather than fighting friction. Also it’s where the entirety of your ship is trying to climb its own bow wave, so you’re trying to push the whole boat up hill.
If you want to go faster than hull speed you need to have a different hull design like a semi-displacement or planing hull. These are a lot less fuel efficient than displacement hulls as well as some other dosadvantages with weight and bad weather, but if you want to go fast they are your only option.
TL;DR: it’s sort-of a max speed. It’s probably better to describe it as, the speed at which you need to go back to the drawing board for that vehicle.
But what if we just add more engines? And, lest you think it a simplistic idea: what if they were even bigger engines?
And what if we painted it red? Red make go fasta
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It can go faster, but you wouldn’t want to be on it.
Or near it.
Im pretty sure relevatistic laws eventually come into play.
So it’s the fastest you can go before calm seas become a roller coaster.
This ship is the entire Fleet-in-Being doctrine.
It’s the new nuclear deterrent. Someone starts acting up and you just rotate the boat slightly in its port to face their direction. The parental angry raised eyebrow of national defense.
Fun trivia for those that didn’t notice. The guns ARE facing the city.
As pioneered by the HMS Don’t Make Me Come Over There.
Most of my tax dollars are going towards greebling.
The mass shortage of model kits is the real tragedy.
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The Emperor protects, battle brothers.
It’s the fortress-ship from Iain Bank’s “Use of Weapons”.
How’s the command chair?
A little pokey around the ribs.
Damn you’re good.
Too soon… 🦴😢
Does this count as spoilers: 🦴🪑😭
The scabberrind? I listed to it, so I have no idea how to spell it.
It’s the “Staberinde”, according to this Stackoverflow discussion. (It’s been a while, I had to look up the name.)
Was thinking exactly this.
Not enough guns, and where are the runways?
I believe the forward turret fires F35s as ammo
The age of the battleship has returned!
YES MORE DAKKA
The USS AFS (all fifty states)
The USS Go Fuck Yourself.
And its sister ships, the Fuck Yeah and the Find Out.
It’s the dream that we all share! It’s the hope for tomorrow!
Tended with ammunition and dry cargo by the USNS Win Stupid Prizes.
