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I'll take the USS Pensacola (CA-42) if it's available.
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Did Grey skip the 22nd?
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Mar 23, 2016 14:56
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My lucky ship. Pensacola.
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Apr 11, 2016 18:13
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I'm ready for a good surface engagement. I want to see some sunk ships! Give my lucky ship some company Grey.
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Apr 15, 2016 20:21
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What are the chances the Revenge actually sunk? Could the bombing have done enough to keep them from stopping the flooding?
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I went back and added it up. The Revenge has taken 39 bomb hits and 2 torpedoes. Today is the first time we have seen heavy damage though.
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If anyone is interested the current tally on the Revenge is 69 bomb hits and 2 torpedoes.
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May 7, 2016 17:25
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Ikasuhito posted:Dammit, At this point I believe Grey has put more bombs into the Revenge than all the battleships hit at both Pearl attacks. I didn't count but he has put almost as many into the Resolution. Between the two I'd bet he's up to 100+ bombs.
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May 7, 2016 23:19
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Is there a list of the lucky ships? My poor Pensacola is already on the bottom so I want to claim one of Grey's CV's if any on that list aren't taken. Maybe the Unryu?
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May 22, 2016 17:12
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I would like to claim the CVL Ryūjō. The real one only made it to August 42, hopefully Grey can do better.
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May 23, 2016 15:01
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LostCosmonaut posted:A 250 kilo bomb isn't going to do poo poo to Resolution at this point. The Revenge was up to 70 or so. I didn't count the hits on Resolution but it was probably 50 or 60. Like Jobbo said though at least some of those were 60kg bombs.
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Jun 5, 2016 22:09
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I think you missed the update for the 5th.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:27
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Mobile (pronouced mo-bee-all) is a fairly large city in Alabama. I assume that's what the ship is named after. It is on Mobile bay, which connects to the gulf of mexico, and is currently the production site for the controversial Independence class littoral combat ships.
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May 28, 2017 18:52
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David Corbett posted:Speaking of those, it absolutely blows my mind that shipbuilders are still running face first into problems with galvanic corrosion. Within ten years of the launch of the first iron-hulled warship (HMS Warrior), designs were already being pioneered to avoid the issue. HMS Inconstant used a clever system of wood furring to keep the copper and iron separate - in 1868. 150 years later, we apparently have forgotten these lessons. This isn't really the place for it, but those ships are a clusterfuck in a bunch of ways. The manufacturer is currently being sued because they had workers use giant circular saws to cut metal even the though the saw manufacturer says specifically not to do that. It has led to a bunch of people losing fingers/hands/arms, but is faster than doing it the right way.
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Dreamsicle posted:I'm now interested in what would happen if we put modern performance car engines in WWII fighters. I'm actually studying piston engines right now so I can shed a little light on this. A common way of evaluating piston engines is the brake mean effective pressure (BMEP), which is the power per engine revolution divided by its displacement. Typical values for this are 6 - 18 (atm/bar), with 6 being more reliable engines and 18 being turbo race engines. Using the values in Wikipedia for the double wasp (and assuming the radial engines are 4-stroke) the BMEP is about 7 bar. The same calculation for the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport the BMEP is about 10 bar. So if a modern double wasp was made to the same performance per displacement as a Bugatti it would make about 2200 kW or 3000 hp. Looking at a max performance it could make 3700 kW or 5000 hp. (This motor would need to be rebuilt every 50-100 hours or so probably)
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I would love to see the press in this timeline. The Wasp was barely in service 6 months and Yorktown just over a year. In the real timeline the US didn't lose a single Essex class carrier and Grey just bagged two in one day.
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