Naval Warfaretards/Churchillians, to me!

[Darth Wagtaros]

Whats the grey stuff?

[MadBurgerMaker]

Gray stuff?  You mean on the carrier flight decks?   That's just nonskid on steel.  With, you know, rust and paint around/on it.

[Ed Anger]

The Constellation, Ranger, Kitty Hawk and Independence are Mothballed there too.

http://deanoinamerica.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/mothballed-super-carriers/

[Neil]

It's always sad seeing a warship being broken up.

[Tonitrus]

It's always sad seeing a warship being broken up.

They're not being broken up, they are waiting to be rebuilt to save Earth from the Gamelons. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

It's always sad seeing a warship being broken up.

They're not being broken up, they are waiting to be rebuilt to save Earth from the Gamelons. 

Not Japanese enough.

[grumbler]

USS Bainbridge

grumbler has the conn.

True story:  look at the superstructure behind the Long Beach's bridge in Jake's picture.  That flat area?  That was originally the top of 4 ICBM launchers that went all the way to the bottom of the hll.  The ship wasn't expected to survive the launch of the ICBMs, but would take out 4 cities in passing.  It was later (maybe before completion) converted to a Regulus nuclear land attack cruise missile launcher plus reloads.  Finally, it just became the boat deck.

Weird, weird ship.  What with the planar radar arrays on the superstructure (the same as the Big E had) that never really worked because they were still tube technology (and I forget how many hundreds of thousands of tubes were involved, but the operational availability rate was truly crap), to having no guns whatsoever (later having a couple of 76mm bolted on on the newly designated "boat deck"), Long Beach qualifies as one of those white elephants before she even completed. But I will give her this:  whan she came over the horizon, no one didn't know who she was.  The only comparable ship was the USS Chicago:

[Siege]

What flat area?

[grumbler]

What flat area?

Your forehead.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

What flat area?

[Ideologue]

The 4th search result from "That's why she was built." is an alt-sex story about a "Far Future Fembot" 

The Battleship That Was a Girl?  I think Tim's writing that novel.

Neil's already preordered.

[grumbler]

The Battleship That Was a Girl?  I think Tim's writing that novel.

Neil's already preordered.

  There are many issues on which you can call "bullshit" on Neil, but his love of dreadnoughts isn't one of them.   

Especially coming from a person, like you, who idolizes the most incompetent and wasteful military unit ever, the "strategic bomber."

And, yes, it was more wasteful than the paratroop force!

[CountDeMoney]

Especially coming from a person, like you, who idolizes the most incompetent and wasteful military unit ever, the "strategic bomber."

Hey!!! 

[Neil]

The 4th search result from "That's why she was built." is an alt-sex story about a "Far Future Fembot" 

The Battleship That Was a Girl?  I think Tim's writing that novel.

Neil's already preordered.

I came?

[grumbler]

Hey!!! 

Surely you know enough to understand that the strategic bomber only came of age when it was already obsolete.  Absent the nuclear bomb, it was impotent.  With the nuclear bomb, it was a Dr Stragelovian anachronism.