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Ah! yes, the lighter weight and caliber guns such as the Bofers 40mm and Flak-88 series were indeed successful dual-purpose guns. I was thinking more along the lines of the bigger stuff like an M198 howitzer field gun or M109 howitzer self propelled gun for the prior comment about dual-purpose artil...

You can use a large caliber artillery piece such as a Howitzer or field-gun for direct-fire and there have been times that that has happened. There was even that one time in WWII when Allied ships (cruisers and destroyers) used their heavy guns in tank-pinking when the German's were over-running a h...

Outside isn't half-dead, there is still allot of world-building going on in the forums where Arioch is pretty active. Threads like the " Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread " and ones like it help lend some weight to this view. As long as Arioch is active in the forums or world-building i...

I'll take the buggy Type 214 over this ancient Romeo class any day of the week. That old N-Korea boat looks like a rust bucket ready to sink on its own. Yes yes, I know its an absurd comparison but any excuse to poke some fun :D http://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-un-mans-a-soviet-submarine-that...

@ Senanthes You may get your wish on those Kirov's word in the Navy is that the Russians are bringing them out of retirement and refurbishing them with deployment around 2020 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/1144-units.htm - ' In December 2011 it was reported that the Russian Defe...

I would command the a "Sejong the Great class destroyer" of the Republic of Korea Navy in the contested waters of the South China Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejong_the_Great_class_destroyer Love this ship, its big but with comparatively small crew needs, stealthy, moderately shallow draft, lon...

This is the thread to discuss the merits (positive and negative) of real navy ships (not hypothetical) both past, present, and future. Inspired by the RIMPAC 2014 navy exercises that are going on at the time of this post and the prior thread 'Zumwalt: Stealth and Armor in Modern Naval Combat' which ...

Harrier pilots are awesome.

Puts the jet on the deck without the nose gear using a landing gear maintenance repair stool to hold up the front.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... 9tvdjDAr1U

Hi Discord Sorry if you got that impression and a double apology if I contributed to it. But the discussion has whittled down from many people in the beginning to just a few people with three of them the most active so its less of a debate and more of... well.. something else. If you guys want to di...

I'm not going to debate armor vs stealth, Senanthes and others have covered that very well. Just covering the radio and CWIS system. I'm also exiting the thread; if you guys want to discuss the merits of an existing ship or cool new technology then I'll join back in. Peace out! :P #1 and 3 - Wont wo...

discord Antenna's of any type don't work like that; you can't have the entire ship be the antenna, especially for higher frequencies used for satellite and radio communications. Same for Radar. The metal of the ships hull would act as a conductor which would then short immediately to the water and w...

Senanthes - nailed it exactly That's why modern anti-ship missiles usually carry semi-penetrating "blast fragmentation" warheads and not shaped-charge or basic HEAT charges. The goal is to punch through the ships limited armor so the warhead detonated inside the ship where the pressure-blast from th...

For a small densely packed heavily armed warship intended for coastal and river type threat areas, this example is about how much stuff you can cram into a hull that small. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_class_corvette These have a 76mm gun, VLS short-range missiles, ASW, and anti-ship all in ...

Good thought, but you can't swap-out sensors quite so easily; each one is unique even if mass manufactured and will require a period of calibration to account for the tiny differences between sensor packs. That is assuming you want the highest precision results (which you do if your trying to shoot-...

Discord The current generation of anti-ship missiles are armor piercing, the Indian BrahMos missile packs a 200-300 kg conventional semi-armour-piercing and nuclear warhead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrahMos Smaller Western (NATO) anti-ship missiles don't pack quite as much punch or penetration c...

I think I see where the disconnect is; the purpose of stealth on warships is not to make them 100% invisible; its to make them look like something else on radar and thermal vision. Radar alone can't tell you what your looking at; it can only tell you speed, direction, and rough size of the object yo...

Stealth tank you say? The Polish army is working on one http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/is-polands-stealthy-pl-01-the-tank-of-the-future-1554395391 Personally I don't like the idea ;tanks are very dirty and abused in cross country and small-arms/heavy-weapons hits. I dont think that Polish stealth ...

Yes exactly; anti-ship missiles are usually fired in salvos and from multiple vectors. No one shoots them in just one or two as they expect that a percentage will be shot down. Read the chapter "Dance of the Vampires" in the novel Red-Storm Rising by the late Tom Clancy for an idea of how a modern s...

Just a thought; but if I can successfully hit you're nuclear-proof ship with one nuke (even a smaller one) then I can probably hit it with a second and third. Given that I expect that you to have strong anti-air-war systems I'll be firing those nukes in salvos of probably 20 or more which can be del...

That said - As long as there are active users in the forums, especially Arioch who creates the comic, I can say for certain that the comic is not dead and will entertain no thoughts to the contrary.

(Edited) Ok, removed; was fun while it lasted, but your right; its time to put that joke to rest.