Name This...(882)

[brady]

???

[Charon]

Japanese Crusier Aoba.

Charon

[RTSigma]

A three hour tour

[bigsky]

a ship

[storch]

Originally posted by Charon
Japanese Crusier Aoba.

Charon

Yup I agree Aoba.  Dang Charon!!!!

[Howitzer]

Ok Charon, I give up, how did you get the name?  I figured it is Japanese because of the flag on the back, I thought it was a cruiser because of the guns and overall size, but how do you distinguish between the different japanese cruisers?

[Charon]

LOL. Usually it's a long, drawn out process. I can generally tell the nationality of the vessel, and the era in which it was built.

It's pretty easy to get the class. Most ships, planes and land weapons have a certain national style about them even if you can't see a flag or markings. But, after that, many are very similar (for example 8 or 9 gun cruiser classes, destroyer classes, etc.) and you have to look for subtle detail differences. The difference between one cruier and another might be mainly in some small bridge details, or you might be seeing a ship posted from when it was built in 1923 but come across photos of the modified ship in 1940s form and have to know that by the number of AAA or the styple of the masts, radar, etc. It helps having read WW2 coffeetable "weapons" books for avout 35 of my 39 years.

Then I find a listing of ships in the class and search by name and maybe come across a the same picture in the process. But in this case, I entered "Japanese cruiser" on Google, clicked on the first link and saw the same image

Charon

[storch]

Originally posted by Charon
LOL. Usually it's a long, drawn out process. I can generally tell the nationality of the vessel, and the era in which it was built.

It's pretty easy to get the class. Most ships, planes and land weapons have a certain national style about them even if you can't see a flag or markings. But, after that, many are very similar (for example 8 or 9 gun cruiser classes, destroyer classes, etc.) and you have to look for subtle detail differences. The difference between one cruier and another might be mainly in some small bridge details, or you might be seeing a ship posted from when it was built in 1923 but come across photos of the modified ship in 1940s form and have to know that by the number of AAA or the styple of the masts, radar, etc. It helps having read WW2 coffeetable "weapons" books for avout 35 of my 39 years.

Then I find a listing of ships in the class and search by name and maybe come across a the same picture in the process. But in this case, I entered "Japanese cruiser" on Google, clicked on the first link and saw the same image

Charon

Dude that is very clever.  I look through reference books LOL

[Charon]

Brady's pretty good at picking the weapons. When he only shows a small part of one or shows an odd angle it gets very hard.

With ships it's hard not to show too much detail, but that Italian sub a few weeks ago was a real stumper. I figured it was either Med. or Pacific because of the sailors wearing shorts and no shirts. Thought it might be American (early  fleet boat classes) or Dutch in Pacific water and spent a lot of time searching with no luck. Even brought out some books I've had since 1975 to check.

It looked roughly Italian but the angle didn't match any images I could find in books or on the web, and you couldn't see those square tower windows in any of the ones I saw. After the name was posted the image looked a lot more familiar in the book

Charon

[bustr]

Extra credit, whats the seaplane???????

[StraDog]

Originally posted by brady
???

Big John's pic of his Swift Boat?

[brady]

Aoba, it is:)


TY Charon, I do wory over the pics to make shure they are decent studies, or interesting ones.