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ShamefurDispray

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  1. So it looks like Democrats are channeling their inner Jefferson Davis by floating an initiative to have California secede from the Union.

     

    http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-coming-to-a-clipboard-near-you-1485483444-htmlstory.html

     

    Good. 

     

    GOOD.

     

    Although the logical outcome of any California secession would be a West Virginia effect of having rural California counties secede from San Francisco and Los Angeles.

    Do Californians unironically think they can support themselves independently when a rather large portion of their economy relies on receiving goods from China and shipping it out to the rest of the US?

    If I was from Seattle, I would hope that they secede from the union asap.

  2. Regarding the US adopting triple turrets much later than some other nations:

     

    The US' first ships that could have really benefitted from triples are the Delaware class, and it appears that for them (and the Floridas when the 14" wasn't ready in time) that weight at the aft end of the ship was very limited, to the point they accepted only one turret able to fire straight backwards to avoid even the extra weight that making the number 4 turret superfiring would have added. Unfortunately I don't know what was up with the Wyomings. The New Yorks ended up like that just because they were designed before the triple was really finished, the Delawares are the real mystery and I don't know why.

    The US went with triples because they'd seen just how clumsy the five and six turret layouts that resulted otherwise were. They were still concerned about excessive weight aft it seems, the first draft of what became the Nevada was based on the New York with the number 4 turret eliminated and number 3 raised before all turrets were turned into triples rather than eliminating number 3. It's also worth a quick note that all this is with 14" guns rather than the 12s on previous triples, which makes the weight on the ends a much bigger problem. Only after Delaware's magazine cooling was reported a failure did they push the turrets all the way out on the ends. The triple was actually adopted after the New York class as a weight and length saving measure. The USN was actually very tightly limited in ship cost by its political setup, with a lot of repeat ship classes out of a desire to not raise costs. That translated into a direct limit on armor and machinery weight.

    The US had previously considered triples (and they'd had de facto quads with the Virginias) all the way back in 1905 (I don't want to know what "semisuperposed" means incidentally) for the South Carolina. The biggest problem for them seems to have been getting the turret working the way they ran things, since each gun was elevated by a single pointer per and they weren't sure where the middle gun's pointer would go. The solution was a single pointer per turret with the guns elevating as a unit, but that left concerns about a single blow knocking out the entire turret and the alignment of the guns in the unit. They also used a very strong front plate to make up for three holes, and tried to get a turret prototyped (it took until two classes with it had been contracted though). Incidentally this is where the US got a lot of their information on gun interference. They hedged their bets by considering twin 15 inch turrets.

    Later on BuOrd wanted to avoid working on twin and triple turrets at once when going to 16 inch turrets, preferring a New York style layout (BuEng wanted to keep the machinery the same and go with four turrets). General Board went with five doubles based on fleet experience with doubles and inexperience with triples, as well as theorycrafting that another double would be pretty cheap weight-wise and turboelectric machinery would allow a layout that wouldn't heat the middle turret's magazine. Josephus Daniels said fuck this noise we're building a repeat of last class, pick the caliber you want and that became the Colorado.

    I'll point out that the Dante Aligheri and Gangut classes both had two midsection turrets, while the US seemed to have sought to minimize the amount of turrets there. The Tegetthoff class was the familiar ABXY layout, but I don't know if they had any issues with the layout. Frankly I don't take inclusion on that class to be an automatic sign that something doesn't have significant problems, and I'm sure you'd agree there.

     

    I've read that German battleships, Bismarck and Scharnhorst classes were planned to have double 15" guns because their ammunition hoists were inefficient in terms of space (especially width), therefore triples would further increase the width of these oversized ships and there will be either a speed loss or a further upsizing of the already oversized ships.

    For some reason, the Japanese never had any triple turrets in battleships until the Yamato, but there were plans for triple 14" and 16.1" mounts. My hypothesis is that due to their doctrine, they preferred to have higher speeds for their operations theatre and having triple turrets would have meant that they would need to install more heavy, powerful and expensive turbines or further increase the size of their ships.

    When it came to the Yamato however, they were more focused on building the most powerful battleship for the eventual decisive battle more than anything else. 

  3. I love this "we need just 37 electoral votes to change this election!"

    You mean, you need twelve percent of electors slated to vote Trump to go rogue?

    You mean, you need the entire state of Texas to suddenly decide not to vote for Trump?

     

    "Just 37 electoral votes" makes you sound like a fucking delusional retard.

    And those 37 electors will just send the vote back to congress which will then vote Trump in lmao

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