Khand-e Posted June 26, 2017 Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 They used them to fire signals and salutes for various reasons. Supposedly also as a mine clearing gun but, never read of a documented case of them being used for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguetechie Posted June 26, 2017 Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 5 hours ago, Khand-e said: They used them to fire signals and salute for various reasons. Supposedly also as a mine clearing gun but, never read of a documented case of them being used for that. The idea of mine clearing with guns has been back in vogue and being talked about lately by NSWC and etc. Specifically they've been talking about supercavitating ammunition designs able to be used in 5.56 all the way up to the Bushmaster autocannon families. At the time I kinda just assumed it was people covering for the little crappy ship being useless as a minesweeper by acting like autocannons and helicopter mounted MG'S could kinda clear mines... It still blows my mind that they wanted a fast minesweeper they could use for other stuff and did all the studies etc with SES ships like the Skjold, INCLUDING a joint project with umoe which determined that an SES minesweeper gained a double digit percentage resistance to mine damage etc over other hull types. And then they bought two horrible designs that even they admitted would be shit minesweepers when they acknowledged that shock testing the LCS ships would do far too much damage! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Torpedo room in the Zr. Ms. Zeeleeuw submarine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bronezhilet Posted June 30, 2017 Report Share Posted June 30, 2017 Zr. Ms. Zeeleeuw and Zr. Ms. Pelikaan More of the Zeeleeuw: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Belesarius Posted July 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 USS Tennessee, 1943, post refit trials. Bronezhilet and Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 39 minutes ago, Belesarius said: USS Tennessee, 1943, post refit trials. My grandfather was on that ship on December 7th 1941. Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted July 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 1 hour ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said: My grandfather was on that ship on December 7th 1941. That's either really neat, or really unfortunate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 Tennessee took very little damage and lost very few men, and he made it through just fine, in fact, after the Tennessee he spent a lot of time on DEs, the rest of the war in fact. Weirdly he died of a heart attack a on December 7th, in 72 about 2 years before I was born. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 USS Flagstaff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted July 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2017 Battleship New Jersey firing a nine-gun salvo during bombardment operations against communist targets in Korea, adjacent to the 38th parallel, 10 November 1951. From I Love Warships FB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted July 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2017 Escort Carrier USS Thetis Bay taking PBY Catalinas, F6F Hellcats, and one J2F Duck from Hawaii to Alameda for repairs, 8 July 1944. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Vikramaditya aircraft carrier at the joint Indian-Japanese-American exercise "Malabar-2017" Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Belesarius Posted July 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2017 Oh, Hi Tokyo!. *HUGS AND KISSES* USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted July 12, 2017 Report Share Posted July 12, 2017 Piet de Jong Guardion Submarine Trainer: Real sub (dunno which one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ramlaen Posted July 14, 2017 Report Share Posted July 14, 2017 Cleopatra 2017, note the Avenger's on the deck of the tailing ship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted July 14, 2017 Report Share Posted July 14, 2017 4 hours ago, Ramlaen said: Cleopatra 2017, note the Avenger's on the deck of the tailing ship. More pictures: Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted July 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2017 USS Los Angeles firing a Regulus missile, Ticonderoga in the background, 7 Aug, 57. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted July 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2017 HMS Renown in splinter camo, USS Texas in the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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