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  • #16
    Actually, the circa 80s BBs could embark as many as 32 TLAMs or TASMs.

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    • #17
      Typical loadout was 24 conventional and 8 nuclear.
      F/A-18E/F Super Hornet: The Honda Accord of fighters.

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      • #18
        8 specials means an Iowa captian had at his disposal more destructive power than all the firepower ever released in the history of war. ;)

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        • #19
          That, one imagines, is why USN is a dry fleet. Thank God.
          Where's the bloody gin? An army marches on its liver, not its ruddy stomach.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by The Chap
            That, one imagines, is why USN is a dry fleet. Thank God.
            Chap, are you suggesting that a drunken USN crew would carelessly flip half a dozen "special" Tomahawks at anything that moves?

            Wait a minute....yeah, you're right, it's a good thing we've got a dry fleet
            “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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            • #21
              Stern shots

              Speaking of the battleships, I bet there is so much at sea war footage and pictures taken of the battleships that most of us will never see because we will be long gone by the time the governments release it to the public. Shame to us battleship nuts can you even imagine some of the footage they have locked up somewhere. I look at many different sites to see pics of Pennsylvania and Arizona to name a few but alas most of the pics are duplicates from other sites. I have a running collection of something i call "stern shots" which is a collection of all the usn bbs stern photos to see the change in the stern sections throughout the age of battleships and the pennsylvania class is one of the most diffacult bbs to get good clear stern shots of any suggestions guys? These photos would have to be pre pearl harbor as most of the bbs had theyre names removed at the stern and went to just numbers on the hull in order to confuse intelligence reports about usn bb movements. Most of the ones posted on the web i've seen but who knows maybe you guys know of others that i havent. Any suggestions?
              Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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              • #22
                I'm only jealous, as at the rate the UK is going, we won't have a fleet dry or otherwise.
                Where's the bloody gin? An army marches on its liver, not its ruddy stomach.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by The Chap
                  I'm only jealous, as at the rate the UK is going, we won't have a fleet dry or otherwise.
                  At the rate the UK is going there won't be a military, especially if Gordon Brown comes to power.
                  F/A-18E/F Super Hornet: The Honda Accord of fighters.

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                  • #24
                    I know that one of the South Dakotas, ie the Big Mamie "Massachusetts" is in great shape. All of the power and steam plants are operational. Next to the Iowas they are the most modern BB's, having been commissioned in 1941.
                    "Now we shall have ourselves a pell mell battle!" ......The Immortal Memory, Admiral Nelson

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by M21Sniper
                      One fully modernized Iowa BBG would have more killing power than every battleship ever built.

                      Combined.
                      What do you believe would be involved in the "modernization" of an Iowa BBG (if it were ever to be conceived); custom upgraded shells for the 16' guns, Chobbam armor addon plates, tomahawk missle batteries?

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                      • #26
                        http://worldaffairsboard.com/showthread.php?t=6117

                        Follow the yellow brick link. ;)

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                        • #27
                          All that military knowledge and he still retains the ability to quote from the Wizard of Oz ! Truly a remarkable individual.
                          "Now we shall have ourselves a pell mell battle!" ......The Immortal Memory, Admiral Nelson

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                          • #28
                            LOL, what can i say bro. ;)

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                            • #29
                              Personally,
                              I just think they are just the baddest things afloat. Have you ever encountered a U.S Navy Iowa Class Battleship under way? We were fortunate to catch "Wiskey" by chance leaving Norfolk in the eighties under her own power although escorted out by tugs. To see them from the stern angle is just plain out impressive. Last week I was fortunate enough to catch a Liberty ship (one of the last two in existance) in Port at Philly. I toured the USS John W. Brown or "Brownie" as shes called and I will post pics of her next week under a new thread. I had to get pics of her because of the two ships left one is on the east coast and one one the west coast something I never knew. Thanks all see ya's next week.
                              Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Dreadnought
                                To see them from the stern angle is just plain out impressive.
                                You mean like this?
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                                “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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