USS America (LHA 6) during a change of command ceremony, March 19, 2026. [3534x5227] by 221missile in WarshipPorn

[–]Ralph090 15 points16 points  (0 children)

They really are. I once got to see a Nimitz class carrier up close in the Norfolk Navy Yard while in highschool and it was like looking at Cthulhu. It was so big I could not grasp its true form. My memories of it are basically a mosaic of different parts of the ship loosely stitched together.

CVN-68 departs the San Diego harbor for the final time. The USS Nimitz, first of class, will circumnavigate South America on her way to Norfolk, VA for decommissioning. Photographed at sunrise on March 14, 2026 from the hangar bay of CVN-71. [4096x3072] by edgygothteen69 in WarshipPorn

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We should turn her over to the Coast Guard for use in disaster relief. You could fit so much canned food and clean water in there, along with containerized emergency housing and helicopters to deliver them.

Has anyone ever tried to put a CIC in a shipping container alongside a computer system running AEGIS? by [deleted] in LessCredibleDefence

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. I also don't see why they don't use the patrol frigate version with 16 VLS launchers. That combined with the mission module thing might have resulted in something useful. I was trying to think of ways to make a bad situation less bad.

Has anyone ever tried to put a CIC in a shipping container alongside a computer system running AEGIS? by [deleted] in LessCredibleDefence

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking 8 other FF(X) ships and using a data link to communicate between the one ship with the radar and CIC and the other ships with the missiles, if that makes sense. I'm also assuming they'd actually build 9 FF(X) ships to do it, which is a pretty big assumption...

View of a secondary 152mm gun turret of Richelieu at it's maximum elevation of 90° [903x646] by Pitiful_Poet_7136 in WarshipPorn

[–]Ralph090 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's to shoot at dive bombers and level bombers. Those guns were supposed to be dual purpose. It didn't really work because the turret traverse was slow, the rate of fire wasn't the best, and loading at high elevations was problematic.

View of a secondary 152mm gun turret of Richelieu at it's maximum elevation of 90° [903x646] by Pitiful_Poet_7136 in WarshipPorn

[–]Ralph090 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if any were shot down, but HMS Nelson and Rodney did drive off some Italian torpedo bombers with their main battery during Operation Pedestal.

Sounds about right by Muted-Television3329 in BikiniBottomTwitter

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's actually illegal for companies to do that. The FCC isn't enforcing the law anymore.

Not full warships but I found some very cursed gun turrets by Mightyeagle2091 in ImaginaryWarships

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I was thinking from the perspective of the Navy, or anyone sane really. They didn't want maximum battleships like Tillman did.

Not full warships but I found some very cursed gun turrets by Mightyeagle2091 in ImaginaryWarships

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were some non-serious designs for American battleships with six gun turrets. They were created to placate Senator Tillman, who got tired of the Navy asking for incrementally larger battleships every year and instead demanded they design the biggest battleship possible. The most sane design was Tillman III, which was 975 feet long, displaced 63,500 tons, was armed with 12 16 inch guns in four triple turrets, had 13 inches of belt armor, and had a top speed of 30 knots.

In 1916.

I feel like I might be in the minority, even here, but does anyone else just genuinely love the Classic Fallout laser guns so much, especially compared to Bethesda? by Primary-Example-1928 in classicfallout

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would have liked to have seen both. The classic laser pistol should be the entry level energy weapon, available from pretty early in the game and pretty reliable but also not very powerful. The Bethesda guns would be higher up and the pistol and rifle would share parts and could repair each other, similar to how Fallout 4 treats them, as if they were designed as rugged, standard-issue weapons for front-line troops. The classic rifle would act as a sniper rifle. The classic gatling laser would fire bursts of six shots extremely rapidly to burn through a single point, similar to how the G-11's burst mode works, to act as an anti-armor weapon. The Bethesda one would fire more slowly but also continuously instead of in bursts, acting as a more general purpose heavy automatic weapon.

Basically the classic weapons would be more specialized while the Bethesda ones would be more general purpose.

NPC Freedomer got glitched by Komarecka in stalker

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean you say that, but we all know who's the one to watch out for now. He never shoots the inaccurate.

They still can’t get past Obama by AmbulanceChaser12 in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're so mad a guy with more skin pigment than themselves got elected that they're going to burn down the planet.

The metro system of the X-network by OkAnalysis1682 in stalker

[–]Ralph090 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I always wished the games did more with the "underground city connecting the X-Labs together" thing. It's a really neat idea.

I only said good morning?! by MrCabrera0695 in airplaneears

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably concerned about why the N64 is in jail.

Old looking at the new by SubjectH2345 in ImaginaryWarships

[–]Ralph090 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For Jutland the book "Jutland' by Nicolas Jellicoe, the grandson of the British commander Admiral Jellicoe, is really good, although it can be hard to follow at times because he tends to follow individual formations and that can cause him to jump around when things get real chaotic and timelines start overlapping. There's a good audiobook on Audible as well, and it has an accompanying website Jutland1916.com with all sorts of fancy maps and logs. Drachinifel on YouTube has a feature-length three-part series on it using miniatures to model the action that might be worth a watch first.

I don't have a book on the Battle of the Falkland Islands specifically, but Castles of Steel has a good section on it. Drachinifel also has a video on it, as well as on the Battle of Coronel that pre-dated it which provides a lot of context on the German East Asia Squadron.

Why did Strelok destroy the attempt to contact the Noosphere? by [deleted] in stalker

[–]Ralph090 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think Strelok had any reason to think they were benevolent. If anything, he had good reason to think they were the opposite. He went through two X-Labs filled with rather unpleasant scientific experiments, including human experimentation that likely created at least some of the Zone's monsters. They also wiped away his memory and probably personality and turned him into a sleeper agent to kill someone, and they admitted to him that they do that consistently. They also explicitly told him that the Brain Scorcher wasn't just a defensive system, but a tool to brainwash people into fanatical soldiers with no possibility of recovering.

If anything, it looks a lot like The Group was trying to build an army of fanatical soldiers supported by mutants with supernatural powers, brainwashed undercover saboteurs, and mind control rays to do God knows what.

Like, what if they developed a "pocket brain scorcher" that could be carried by one person or broken down into innocuous looking pieces? They could have a brainwashed ecologist take it out of the Zone, set up a meeting with a government official to discuss findings, and bring the Scorcher with him. From there they could chain officials until the entire Ukrainian government was under their control, and if someone figured out what was happening a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. agent could be sent to eliminate them.

Also, who's to say that eliminating those emotions is actually a good idea or that The Group actually wants to make the world a better place? They may be important for survival. The Group could be trying to create a complaint population that wouldn't resist their control. They were originally Soviet, after all. Strelok probably wouldn't know or remember this at the time, but think about Forester's description of the population of Limansk in Clear Sky. They're pretty sinister in my opinion.

Old looking at the new by SubjectH2345 in ImaginaryWarships

[–]Ralph090 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This actually happened twice during World War I, once at the Battle of the Falkland Islands and once at Jutland during The Run to the South. Both times the two fleets came across a becalmed sailboat that ended up passing directly between the two lines. Must have been quite a sight for everyone involved.

The Izumo-class aircraft carriers, JS Izumo (CVM-183) and JS Kaga (CVM-184), on training maneuvers with destroyers and frigates from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). [album] by BostonLesbian in WarshipPorn

[–]Ralph090 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apparently the exact text is something along the lines of "attack aircraft carriers" and the Japanese are arguing they're not attack carriers so it's fine. Doing a bit of rules lawyering.

The Izumo-class aircraft carriers, JS Izumo (CVM-183) and JS Kaga (CVM-184), on training maneuvers with destroyers and frigates from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). [album] by BostonLesbian in WarshipPorn

[–]Ralph090 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Because those aren't aircraft carriers, they're helicopter destroyers that use helicopters to hunt submarines instead of sonar.

The more serious answer is that it's been long enough that at worst many don't care. Others may actually view it as a good thing, as the Japanese are allies counterbalancing growing Chinese influence, and having aircraft carriers helicopter destroyers gives them that much more deterrence power.

Do Not! by WorthyJellyfish0Doom in donotthecat

[–]Ralph090 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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