Dumb question, but I have learned that the DDH-184 Kaga, is actually.... larger in dimensions then the original Kaga.... Longer and Wider.
If you were to say, try and load the same aircraft as the WWII Kaga onto her, would she be able to launch them? Or was there another factor to launching the aircraft of the era that I am missing.
I don’t see any reason why not.
Recovering them might be an issue but launching should be easy.
Edited by archonspeaks on Mar 1st 2019 at 5:59:38 AM
They should have sent a poet.
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Immy whatever it is you're planning, don't do it.
Oh really when?
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Besides the possible issues with catapults or such not being compatible (I'm not an expert on that, unfortunately), the main issue to launch was to be steaming with the wind at a certain speed.
If its faster and bigger, which it probably is, there is no reason you couldn't launch Zero and Kate aircraft off of it. The real question will be, forever, why would you do that!? ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
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IJN carriers didn’t really use catapults, and modern Japanese carriers don’t use them either.
Compatible arresting gear would be the issue.
Edited by archonspeaks on Mar 1st 2019 at 9:11:42 AM
They should have sent a poet.
Immy if you're planning on attacking Pearl Harbor or Midway...don't. The Marines at Kane'ohe will be mighty cheesed off at the thought of having to drive over the mountains to rescue a bunch of squids in Honolulu.
Also NAS Midway hasn't been regularly used in decades. It's basically an emergency landing strip now.
Also a bunch of Zeroes and Kates wouldn't stand a chance against an Army/Air Force C-RAM or Navy Phalanx set to manual, let alone Standard missiles, Stingers and CAP.
So spare us the irate Marines, the massacre of your pilots and idea that somehow you can re-enact 1942 only this time around it ends in Japanese favor.
^ They do, just like how when you're flying suddenly there's a mountain right out of nowhere!
SPACE
You know, those motorists are lucky that the only part of the ship that came into contact with the bridge *broke off* on impact...
Other considerations for a carrier design besides a big enough flight deck and fast enough engines is the below-decks space for hangars, fuel tanks, and magazines. I'm not sure if LH Ds have a lot of space to safely stow munitions.
In warships and in armored vehicles alike, poorly stowed shells can ruin your entire day if the other guy lands a shot in the wrong spot.
Or at least munitions beyond those carried by a typical rotary gunship.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
The USS Wasp has been found.
(Fox News link.)
(Curiously, the BBC has nothing on this.)
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Past couple of years have been a renaissance of finding new WW 2 shipwrecks.
What did we find in like, the past 5 years alone?
-Musashi
-Ward
-Lexington
-Hornet
-Wasp
-Yamashiro
-Fuso
-Hiei
-Indianapolis
And undoubtedly I've forgotten a bunch, there are just the ones I thought of atop my head.
Edited by AzurePaladin on Mar 21st 2019 at 4:42:36 AM
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -Fighteer
Most of them were found by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who was using it as a kind of rich mans hobby.... I kind of worry about how things will go now that he is gone. :c
Had a moment of curiosity and I found something nifty.
Remember that Norwegian frigate that sank last November? They finally pulled it out of the water and back into a naval base.
Probably a complete loss after 4+ months of being in chilly seawater.
SPACE
I wonder if that .50 cal can be salvaged.
Easily. The actual .50 cal machine gun anyways, don't know about the hydraulic powered mount.
Send it to the armorer (paging Tuffel), have it given a good solvent bath and scrub to get the corrosion off, replace a few parts if necessary, lube it up well and it's good to go again.
The mount might be right proper fucked.
Edited by MajorTom on Mar 26th 2019 at 9:24:19 AM
I am pretty sure Tuffy would hate you for it though.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
...Yeah, even the .50 would be fucked. Long term immersion in salt water even cold salt water fucks weapons inside and out. Even fresh water immersion would turn the guts into a corroded mess. The barrel is likely fucked three ways from Sunday and any part that scraped against another would corrode very very quickly.
Who watches the watchmen?
We have a situation going on in the Pacific.
Long story short, Russians tried to ram us.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
So here is something for you folks to pick over. Someone at work asked me if I knew what the Longest ship that is still commissioned in the US Navy was? Apparently, the answer is neither the USS Ford or the USS Constitution. The only thing we could come to was it was a technical classification and not a more traditional classification.
Who watches the watchmen?
Ask your coworker to elaborate more please. Define "longest". Longest serving? Longest length? Longest ranged weapons? Longest range of cruise?
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Longest in terms of physical length.
Who watches the watchmen?
Unless we count USS Desert Ship as a ship, I only think the Nimitz or Ford class carriers are candidates for that.
Then again, the US pulled a similar trick on the Japanese with the Doolittle Raid. The Japanese ended up putting a lot of effort into securing airfields in China because they thought the attack might have been launched from there rather than something really stupid like launching the twin-engined bombers from carriers. FDR did nothing to minimize this confusion even as the US proceeded to never use the tactic again for the duration of the war.
Sometimes it's as much about not telling the enemy something as it is about telling them something false.