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Reply #960 on: December 19, 2019, 07:13:56 AM
^LMAO

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Reply #961 on: December 19, 2019, 08:57:43 AM
USS Pittsburgh lost it's bow during a typhoon on 4 June, 1945.
Not a man was lost.
After a seven-hour battle, the storm subsided, and Pittsburgh proceeded at 6 knots (11 km/h) to Guam, arriving on 10 June. Her bow, nicknamed "McKeesport" (a suburb of Pittsburgh), was later salvaged by the tugboat Munsee and brought into Guam. The 104-foot section of bow broke off owing to poor plate welds at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, in April 1943.

With a false bow, Pittsburgh left Guam on 24 June bound for Puget Sound Navy Yard, arriving 16 July. Still under repair at war's end, she was placed in commission in reserve on 12 March 1946 and decommissioned on 7 March 1947. The typhoon damage also earned her the nickname "Longest Ship in the World" as thousands of miles separated the bow and stern.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #962 on: December 19, 2019, 11:41:27 AM
Pittsburgh always was a tough town.  :bringit:

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Reply #963 on: December 19, 2019, 12:42:49 PM
President Xi reminds me of a constipated Jackie Chan.

The Internet has a LOT of fun with that guy. There's tons of memes comparing him to Winnie the Pooh, which pissed off the slimes in Beijing so much that they banned a Winnie the Pooh movie there.  :ROFL:


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Reply #964 on: December 19, 2019, 01:11:24 PM
Really? Now that is funny  :biggrin:

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Reply #965 on: December 19, 2019, 01:20:21 PM
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HMS Audacious in the water for the first time



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Reply #966 on: December 19, 2019, 03:34:37 PM
I bet it can't fly F-35's off it either.  ::)

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Reply #967 on: December 19, 2019, 04:06:48 PM
Neither can anything else..............

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Reply #968 on: December 19, 2019, 07:01:10 PM
Neither can anything else..............

I hear that the Japanese are building a new I-400. They're calling it a helicopter submarine but the ski jump-shaped bow looks somehow familiar...

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Reply #969 on: December 19, 2019, 07:33:26 PM
Water Skiing perhaps?  :hehe:

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Reply #970 on: December 20, 2019, 11:33:06 AM

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Reply #971 on: December 20, 2019, 11:35:22 AM

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Reply #972 on: December 20, 2019, 12:02:03 PM
Oh dear. Someones seamanship will be under scrutiny.

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Reply #973 on: December 20, 2019, 02:48:53 PM

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #974 on: December 22, 2019, 11:43:51 AM
This is pretty wild. Egypt still has a couple Romeo-class subs in service and they are capable of launching Harpoons.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31459/egypts-soviet-era-chinese-made-american-upgraded-subs-can-still-fire-harpoon-missiles

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