"Drydock" is a cover story. She's being commissioned for the Space Force as Space Dreadnought Texas.
"Drydock" is a cover story. She's being commissioned for the Space Force as Space Dreadnought Texas.
"Drydock" is a cover story. She's being commissioned for the Space Force as Space Dreadnought Texas.
>>>PrepHole
>>>PrepHole
you bastard
i now hunger for a tasty midnight snack
Good.
Space Destroyer Escort Samuel B. Roberts
Speaking of dry docks...
Thicc dumper.
How's our favorite boat autist doing?
Love the look of those turrets.
Well, he was a guest on a couple episodes of Unauthorized History of the pacific war, which was fun. The man puts out an unreasonable amount of content.
how the fuck could something that big float? #boatsaren'treal
>how the fuck could something that big float?
Semen. Lots and lots of semen
I believe
Oh please, if we were ever gonna pull a Space Battleship Yamato, we would do it with one of the Iowa-Class.
>>not using the Enterprise.
It is inevitable that the US military will field a spaceship called Enterprise at some point in the next century or two, I hope to live to see it.
And it will contain the original piece of CV-6's hull that was transferred into CVN-65. I really wish I could find the quote about it.
New Jersey is headed to dry dock soon, unless I’m behind the times and it’s already in one.
Still soon. Maybe her and Texas will team up against the alien aggressors.
What do you even fire at aliens from a 16" rifle? Nuclear shells? 3 inch thick, two meter long DU sabots?
It fills my heart with joy to see the Texas getting the love and care she deserves
they know about the interdimensional submarines
China - building as many (shit) Warships as they can make, as fast as they can
USA - taking up a major strategic facility to pretty up a museum display piece so they can keep thanking the Greatest Generation for their service freeing the Hollocost 80 years ago
>How to tell when your Empire is ending...
There is little point in trying to expand our navy when we don't have enough manpower for additional ships.
>be China
>Literally destroy your entire history intentionally
yeah, only humans want to remember the past.
Yeah fuck maintaining historical and cultural icons, we should melt her down and make a bunch of cheap missile boats with the scrap steel. I jest but you're right, with the USN backlog as it is its irresponsible to dedicate a shipyard to refurbish a museum ship (despite how much I love her) when there are far more important ships in service that need the tlc or just retirement
it's not, but I wish it was
kys you PrepHolefag schozomoron.
Go visit while you can. Extremely cool to look up at a ship.
God I love ship bellies, even more when I know they're getting love and care
>only surviving battleship that served in both world wars
she's being refit for WW3. Space will have to wait for something else.
Cut it into blocks
Send the blocks into space
Welt it all together again
Sounds great let me call Elon to see what he thinks about it
well he's zooted 24/7 on ket so he'd probably be all for it
Elon could make it happen.
I liked the Looking Glass Series, not so much the Paladin of Shadows series
>She's being commissioned for the Space Force
Shipyard outside machinist here..... yep
>We need another $100 million dollars for the FINAL repairs goy!
>It's URGENT to SAVE HISTORY!
Holy shit sink this fucker and make a nice reef already. Tired of getting spammed every couple years for handouts. It's been refitted more than ships actually at sea at this point.
SARABA CHIKYUU YOOOOOO
Isn't she literally in eyesight of Boca Chica, like you could watch a Starship launch from her mast close?
no
Aside from the difficulty of getting her up into space, how would you even get a pre-WWI battleship properly sealed for use in the void?
Any ship designed prior to the era of NBC protection just doesn't have any provisions for being rendered airtight.
They bought out every tube of caulk from every hardware store.
The crackhead handyman my landlord hires says caulk will do the trick real good
It's not as crazy as it sounds. The difference between the inside and outside of a space ship is only about 14 PSI, while the average pressure of tap water in your pipes is 40 to 60 PSI. If caulk can stop water from leaking around a plumbing fitting, which it can, then caulk could easily seal the gaps between plates on a space ship's hull.
As long as a space ship doesn't have to endure the heat of atmospheric reentry, it's really not very demanding from an engineering perspective to keep it sealed up.
The only concern would be how does it handle the cold, solar radiation, or abrasion from space dust? I could see keeping tubes of caulk, especially some kind of rapid setting formula like they use in trucks carrying nukes for emergency breach repairs, but for a primary seal against space?
> The New Jersey is going into dry dock too.....
Hmmmm.....