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It's the Weapon of Choice

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I wonder how aircraft carriers deal with satellite tracking

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    I wonder how aircraft carriers deal with satellite tracking
    Lots of blue paint.

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    UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    I wonder how aircraft carriers deal with satellite tracking

    Not entirely sure, but my best guess would be that they don't

    I mean, a US aircraft carrier may be a thousand feet long, but the deck is still less than a hundredth of a square mile in area

    The Pacific Ocean by itself is 64 million square miles

    You'd have to be pretty damn lucky to have a satellite in the right place at the right time just to see it, much less track it

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I've flown over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans several times and only once have I been able to see a ship at sea from the window. Oceans are big.

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    nealcmnealcm Alvarian AlvarianRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    i came in here to see if anyone posted the weapon of choice christopher walken video and it was the second post

    damn

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    It makes me wonder how viable it would even be to try and sink a Nimitz-class carrier. I have no idea what kind of ordnance would be needed to destroy one of those things.

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Usagi wrote: »
    Not entirely sure, but my best guess would be that they don't

    I mean, a US aircraft carrier may be a thousand feet long, but the deck is still less than a hundredth of a square mile in area

    The Pacific Ocean by itself is 64 million square miles

    You'd have to be pretty damn lucky to have a satellite in the right place at the right time just to see it, much less track it
    Plus the blue paint really helps.

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    UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    It totally does Cal

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    can't a satellite take super large, high resolution images and spot a tiny fraction of a pixel that's out of place though?

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I wonder what being on this is like

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    Pretty soon it's just gonna be

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Wren wrote: »
    can't a satellite take super large, high resolution images and spot a tiny fraction of a pixel that's out of place though?

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    ArrathArrath Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Rolo wrote: »
    Wren wrote: »
    can't a satellite take super large, high resolution images and spot a tiny fraction of a pixel that's out of place though?

    zoom in

    enhance


    zoom in

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    Whoops, thats the pacific garbage island.

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Rolo wrote: »
    It makes me wonder how viable it would even be to try and sink a Nimitz-class carrier. I have no idea what kind of ordnance would be needed to destroy one of those things.

    For starters, you'd want to go thermal for satellite tracking. As far as sinking it, the hull design pretty much negates the ol' speedboat bomb method. Most of the ballast is provided by the portion of the ship that is underwater. Want to sink a Nimitz, you'd need to make multiple underwater strikes. If you can breach the hull enough times on on side of the ship, on the underwater portion, the ship might even just tip over.

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    just fill the carrier full of toxic gas. no sailors, no ship.

    I should be a military strategist

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Hey, who wants to finish my paper for me?

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Weaver wrote: »

    that would be awesome. I bet you'd get a refund

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Callius wrote: »
    Hey, who wants to finish my paper for me?

    is it about butts?

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Rolo wrote: »
    It makes me wonder how viable it would even be to try and sink a Nimitz-class carrier. I have no idea what kind of ordnance would be needed to destroy one of those things.

    another nimitz class

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Thinking about how to hit a carrier.

    No real easy or certain way to it, but if you could knock out the catapults then you've pretty much de-clawed the ship.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Weaver wrote: »
    Thinking about how to hit a carrier.

    No real easy or certain way to it, but if you could knock out the catapults then you've pretty much de-clawed the ship.

    then the destroyer escort gets mad

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    pip have you seen the Gerald R. Ford class of new carriers being built?
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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Thinking about how to hit a carrier.

    No real easy or certain way to it, but if you could knock out the catapults then you've pretty much de-clawed the ship.

    then the destroyer escort gets mad

    I thinking just a lone carrier with no escort for this scenario.


    Our navy fucking rocks.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Callius wrote: »
    Hey, who wants to finish my paper for me?

    And then they fucked

    The End

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    We should start naming our weapons after peace activists.
    The Gandhi Class Destroyer.

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Diagram!
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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    dunno if I would trust a line of ships named after Gerald Ford

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    is it about butts?
    Athenian Citizen-Soldiery is kind of like butts.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Callius wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    is it about butts?
    Athenian Citizen-Soldiery is kind of like butts.

    I thought you were majoring in dark ages european history

    also, lots of athenian things are about butts

    dudes loved butts

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Weaver wrote: »
    pip have you seen the Gerald R. Ford class of new carriers being built?
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    specifically built for subjugating shitty brown nations and firing golf balls at them 8-)

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Weaver wrote: »
    Diagram!
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    So are the rest of the planes kept inside the carrier? Do they lower them underneath the deck when not in use?

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    dunno if I would trust a line of ships named after Gerald Ford

    Well let me ask you something?

    Do you like beer?

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Rolo wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Diagram!
    CVN-78_aircraft_carrier_conceptual_cutaway_view.jpg

    So are the rest of the planes kept inside the carrier? Do they lower them underneath the deck when not in use?

    the wings fold up so they can store them easier

    and yes, there is a hangar that is reinforced below deck

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    dunno if I would trust a line of ships named after Gerald Ford

    Well let me ask you something?

    Do you like beer?

    That episode is pretty much the extent of my Gerald Ford knowledge. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks of it when they see his name.

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Do you like nachos?

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    TheStig wrote: »
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    dunno if I would trust a line of ships named after Gerald Ford

    Well let me ask you something?

    Do you like beer?

    That episode is pretty much the extent of my Gerald Ford knowledge. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks of it when they see his name.

    I agree

    let us go drink beer

    and eat nachos

    and watch the game

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    I thought you were majoring in dark ages european history

    also, lots of athenian things are about butts

    dudes loved butts
    Dark ages?

    Seriously? SERILILUSLKJIOHJ

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Callius wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    I thought you were majoring in dark ages european history

    also, lots of athenian things are about butts

    dudes loved butts
    Dark ages?

    Seriously? SERILILUSLKJIOHJ

    fine, the period of history between 476 and the late mid 1400s

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    fine, the period of history between 476 and the late mid 1400s
    Broad Scope: Stretch that out to about 300 - 1550

    Small Scope: 911 - 1453

    Smallest Scope: 1066

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    specifically built for subjugating shitty brown nations and firing golf balls at them 8-)
    And pardoning Nixons.

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