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[PhantomCruiser]

Mmmm, sounds like there are a few lightweights in here.
I was drinking heavily with a multi-national bunch of sailors once in Aarhus Denmark (German, Danish, Swedish, even some Russians). Man did we pack away some booze.

I felt pretty good that I could hold my own, but it was amazing to see some professionals in action.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Mmmm, sounds like there are a few lightweights in here.
I was drinking heavily with a multi-national bunch of sailors once in Aarhus Denmark (German, Danish, Swedish, even some Russians). Man did we pack away some booze.

I felt pretty good that I could hold my own, but it was amazing to see some professionals in action.

How much more? We need a sense of scale here :lol:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

You are not yet drunk, if you can lie flat on the floor without having to cling to it.

It's not the spinning that is the problem, it's the gyroscopic precession.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

How much more? We need a sense of scale here :lol:

:rofl:

 

[Andy44]

Frigates? I think you mean Little Cp Ships...

The US Navy still has at least one frigate in service, the greatest frigate ever.

They take care of her but she doesn't get out much these days. Install a couple of Tomahawk launchers and replace the cannon with 20mm and .50cals and she'd hold her own against Somali pirates, at least.

 

[Notebook]

Not in service, but still floating!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Trincomalee

Went round it a few years ago, surprisingly roomy downstairs, not very big windows though.

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

Not yet in service, but already floating:

The newest German frigate, the F222 Baden-Württemberg. 7200 tons of technical glitches. :rofl:

 

[Notebook]

Big for a frigate, my uncle was on HMS Cattistock, a Hunt class Destroyer, and that was smaller!

EDIT: Lot bigger! Just checked the displacement, under 1800 tons, thought it was bigger. Suppose it was an Escort Destroyer, and a war-build, so cheap and cheerful.
http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DE-Cattistock.htm


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[mojoey]

Of course, us Americans have you beat. We designed an entire carrier class around technology that didn't even exist at the time, and for the most part, still doesn't.

 

[Urwumpe]

Big for a frigate, my uncle was on HMS Cattistock, a Hunt class Destroyer, and that was smaller!

N.

Yeah, really a different scale today. Funnily the crew of the Hunt-I-class, like the HMS Cattisstock, is larger than the crew of the F125 frigate. the Cattisstock had a crew of 147, the F125 will have just 120 crewmen (and 70 special forces or other guests)

But this one has just 8 Harpoon launchers, two 21-cell RAM launchers, one 127 mm cannon, a lot of remote controlled and manned machine guns. The Baden-Württemberg class is rather a floating headquarters for special forces or for humanitarian aid missions, designed for having crew rotation while the ship is away from its homeport and for very long maintenance periods. That is what made the ship pretty heavy, since most important stuff exists twice in two different locations of the ship.

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BTW The stellerator-type fusion reactor Wendelstein 7-X goes live for the first time today, holding a helium plasma heated to 100 million K for multiple minutes ... consuming 10 MW electricity during that time.

The first hydrogen plasma will follow next year.

 

[Notebook]

Completely different class of ship, you would expect that after 70+ years I suppose. Sounds like a very versatile vessel.
They should really drop the corvette/frigate/destroyer naming system, they bear no resemblance to the original meaning.
TH RN has this as current destroyer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_45_destroyer

and replacing the type 23 frigates with this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Combat_Ship

Bit of a modest name...but more accurate(expensive)?

N.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Independence_(LCS-2)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Freedom_(LCS-1)

Then there's the "might buy it" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Cutter

At least one of them looks like it wasn't inspired by some SciFi artwork.

I pity the helo driver who has to park on one of those in rough seas. I pity the flight deck crew even more.

 

[Urwumpe]

Yesterday, the German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern collided with a container ship on the Kiel canal.

https://www.vesselfinder.com/news/4...th-Container-ship-Nordic-Bremen-in-Kiel-Canal

Sadly no pictures of the loser of the battle.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

The US Navy still has at least one frigate in service, the greatest frigate ever.

They take care of her but she doesn't get out much these days. Install a couple of Tomahawk launchers and replace the cannon with 20mm and .50cals and she'd hold her own against Somali pirates, at least.

That was her mission in 1804. She went to "the shores of Tripoli" to drop the hammer on the Barbary pirates.

She did.

http://www.thesunchronicle.com/news...cle_92622d21-f72d-50d0-bcad-6d10cf24689e.html

 

[Matias Saibene]

A promising era begins... *slips and falls down the stairs to the basement*

:tiphat:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Of course, us Americans have you beat. We designed an entire carrier class around technology that didn't even exist at the time, and for the most part, still doesn't.

Yep. Concurrent development programs now come in Super Carrier size. :dry:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Yesterday, the German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern collided with a container ship on the Kiel canal.

https://www.vesselfinder.com/news/4...th-Container-ship-Nordic-Bremen-in-Kiel-Canal

Sadly no pictures of the loser of the battle.

That will buff out:

I haven't seen any photos of damage to the Nordic Bremen, but if you have ever seen a used cargo container, you will understand that identifying new damage would be difficult.

 

[Notebook]

Anyone think Starlight Drive-In has a touch of Nighthawks?

N.

 

[Andy44]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Independence_(LCS-2)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Freedom_(LCS-1)

Then there's the "might buy it" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Cutter

At least one of them looks like it wasn't inspired by some SciFi artwork.

I pity the helo driver who has to park on one of those in rough seas. I pity the flight deck crew even more.

Those LCS things are just plain hideous. They look like something that got rejected for a James Bond movie's villain's yacht.

And the silly "freedom" naming, gag me with a spoon. They should name one of them "'Murka" and paint a giant bald eagle on the bow with a picture of Chuck Norris on the side, and get Mountain Dew to sponsor it.

The Coast Guard cutter, at least looks like a realistic ship. Kudos to the Puddle Pirates for keeping it real.

 

[Izack]

Paradox makes some fantastic games. A bit of a tip for HOI3: I tend to disregard the naming conventions for units, except for brigades and divisions. Corps, Armies, Army Groups, etc are all named according to where they're fighting. E.G. If I'm playing as the US, there won't be an 8th Air Force or 5th Fleet, there will be a 8th Euro Air Force and a 5th Pacific Fleet. It's not exactly 'historically accurate' but it helps to keep things organized.

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind. There isn't any point using legit-sounding names for armies in Europa Universalis either. I've just been using numbered 'Offensive' and 'Defensive' names, with the exception of the 'PANIC ARMY' merc unit that sprung up in the last war with the Holy Roman Empire.