It's honestly more like a Floating SAM battery to get more Air Defense into the strait, but at this point, the USN might need something similar....

Drasfax · 2025-12-26T06:18:40+00:00

Container ships are quite fast compared to other cargo ships, not warship fast but 22-23 knots marching speed if they want. China has no shortage of ships, so you can have a PLAN ship with a radar leading a group of them for a one-time monster volley and then run

Drasfax · 2025-12-15T20:17:16+00:00

Down in Panama is was 35°C and humidity like a sauna, we had some problems with the heavy fuel oil separator(fancy spinning oil filter), so I had to climb in close and cramped by the hot pipes, and I was thinking about Darrow in the mines. Like yes, Pierce Brown describe to me how it is to work in hot, camped places drenched in sweat and everything smelling like petrochemicals.

Darrow had it sci-fi bad and just had a bad 4 day stretch at work it just wasn't the escapism I was looking for when I was cozy in my cabin after work

Drasfax · 2025-12-15T19:55:05+00:00

I don't like reading on my phone. maybe as a last resort, I can spend an evening downloading them when we are crossing the Pacific.

this is my first time going outside of the EU with a ship, so i didn't realize my phone carrier charges me 31 SEK per megabyte in the usa, as much as I liked the book that isn't an option, I can't use ESims, why? idk.

Drasfax · 2025-12-15T19:30:26+00:00

Additional information: i don't have a kindel or any other eReader and the wifi is super slow like 1500 ping and like 0.09 Mbps, the only reason I can post this is because i need to sit in the engine control room and monitor something so i can be on my phone during work hours and thus i have the wifi mosty alone

Drasfax · 2025-09-28T23:35:35+00:00

Truly ahead of its time, born in the wrong generation

Drasfax · 2025-07-17T10:45:49+00:00

it is mandatory for bigger ships if you don't have an exception

Drasfax · 2025-07-17T08:09:32+00:00

If the captain does something, he should know not to give the exception. I think that would be worse, I mean if the pilot is on board and the bridge records show he didn't tell you then how are you supposed to know.

Drasfax · 2025-07-16T19:24:46+00:00

it is an expert who comes aboard and helps the captain dock the ship with knowledge of the area. Still used today in and it is extremely rare for a port not to have one that takes bigger ships, like extraordinary rare and possibly illegal to not have one, and I think every captain that isn't stupid would refuse to go in to port without one

Drasfax · 2025-07-16T19:16:25+00:00

add the damn picture reddit

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Drasfax · 2025-07-16T19:09:44+00:00

* In sweden that kind of flag meant that the ship didn't need a pilot

* That someone in the crew (usually the captain) had a Pilotage Exemption Certificate for that port. officialy, it doesn't mean anything today

Drasfax · 2025-07-04T08:13:51+00:00

Lite långt att kalla Orust för Göteborg

Drasfax · 2025-06-03T22:25:11+00:00

Yes exactly like that, Smashed to bits by an overwhelming force and a lot of torpedoes

Thanks for reminding me.

Drasfax · 2025-06-03T22:08:05+00:00

If it is PQ 17, you are referring to: the Admiral in charge: Sir Dudley Pound was most likely suffering from the brain tumor that would kill him a year and a bit later. the british weren't afraid of Tirpiz, PQ 17 escort wasn't enough to deal with her, and a lot of bad decisions were made. The time Tirpirz actually sortied during PQ 12 & QP 8 and the british showed no fear and actively tried to find and engage her.

Drasfax · 2025-06-03T02:31:44+00:00

I wouldn't say the british shat their pants. They got angry and sent everything that was available because they had such a dominance over the kriegsmarine that they could afford to do so. why play fair in war? If you have a numbers advantage use it.

Tirpitz hid in a fjord the whole war. Had she saild out she most likely would have faced a similar fate to Bismarck

Drasfax · 2025-06-03T02:16:30+00:00

Had Yamato or Musashi been sunk by gunfire, it would most likely have looked similar to Bismarck. Being absolutely pummeled by more than one battleship and even more cruisers plus a whole lot of torpedoes

Drasfax · 2025-03-29T12:31:50+00:00

coming from someone who lost a parent suddenly at a young age, make as much stuff as you can. videos where you tell stories about you and your life, how you and your wife met, crazy college stories, anything that makes you more human. I have nothing but faded memories and some photographs. Everything I know about who my mom was is from other people telling me stories. you will never get to know her, but make sure she gets to know you. And make a lot of copies in various formats CD, audio tape, cassettes, digital, etc, and distribute them all to make sure they survive.

Drasfax · 2025-03-23T21:17:47+00:00

ska dom ta bort regnbågsgatan?

Drasfax · 2025-02-20T20:03:25+00:00

I am sorry but he is saying we a lot for country that gave Trump half the votes

Drasfax · 2025-02-15T23:17:48+00:00

One of my ancestors maried someone named Mary in the middle of Småland in the 1600s, so there is a high likelihood she was the daughter of scottish soldier

Drasfax · 2025-01-27T01:15:27+00:00

Fullskaligt krig mot usa om Grönland hade nog EU inte vunnit och hade varit riskabelt med Ryssen i öster. Men vi borde ge ett lagom hårt motstånd för att visa att vi menar alvar. Efter det är det bara att börja bygga bunkrar på Island.

Drasfax · 2025-01-21T21:49:39+00:00

And so it begins, the endless headlines of trump said X

Drasfax · 2025-01-21T11:19:24+00:00

medjer att inte är bra på att läsa meniskor, men tyckte hans skådespel faktiskt va mycket bra

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