Comments on: Happy Fourth of July!

By: om

om — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 23:28:38 +0000

Danged, danged memory Skyhawk, it didn’t sound right when I typed it … 🙂

By: om

om — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:31:05 +0000

Falkland’s war detail correction, (danged memory!). They were served ordnance mostly mostly by the Douglas A4 Skyfigter, a small single engine jet fighter bomber, not by the Douglas A1 Skyraider, a single engine propeller fighter bomber (a larger plane BTW). Details matter, tome off.

By: om

om — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 03:10:06 +0000

Iron bombs delivered by A4 Skyraiders sank most of the ships. IIRC.

Regarding aluminum in warships, that’s called engineering and tradeoffs. War is a harsh thing. Stick to coding and bloviating.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:54:12 +0000

@om: Just as well the Exocet didn’t come online until 1975. Also, you being a details kind of guy would know that what did for the Sheffield was its fashionably new burns like a bitch under right conditions aluminium superstructure — how that got by all the brains and brass one can only wonder. It’s a miracle they didn’t make it out of magnesium to save even more weight.

Now you can have the last word on this.

By: om

om — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:45:23 +0000

Can Do! see the HMS Sheffield for a story of when someone in an airplane really wants you sunk. There were other ships that fared poorly in that war. Details matter, babblebox.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:35:12 +0000

@om:

I seem to have this effect upon you:

HMS Barham (ouch!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTZ-R4QM1E

Can’t imagine why.

By: om

om — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:28:29 +0000

Can Do! poke holes in their bottom and the sea does the rest. Details matter bozo, crew training, damage control, how crew handles splodey stuff. How your ship is built. Details, or just blow smoke, as is your propensity.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:56:46 +0000

Got just the show for you, @Om:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXi4HVLWUzQ

PS: Intelligence gathering ships lacking heavy armament don’t have magazines full of stuff goes boom when you hit them once in the right spot.

By: om

om — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:41:50 +0000

Can Do! is blowing smoke again: how long it took to sink the HMS Hood vs Bismark, or HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Rodney vs IJN Yamato or how long it took to sink the USS Johnson? In all those cases details matter. But Can Do! worrries the USS Liberty like a cur because it suits his hate.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:30:48 +0000

“No doubt a case of: those idiot Israelis couldn’t even sink an American spy ship even after three bombing/strafing runs?

Perhaps. Perhaps not.”

Intent will be debated until the heat death of the universe. Would that people would be on my case for so long — I’m a bit jealous, doncher know? 🙂

Sinking ships must be a lot harder than made out in movies:

RIMPAC Boys Will Be Boys Ship Sinking (for Research Purposes!) Exercises:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imwLc2T3oks