battle ships

[Yossarian]

All you guys do realise that the USS Arizona exploded at Pearl Harbor, right?

ahh...yeah...that's why I posted that

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Yossarian

[John Hynds]

Posted in another thread about a new task group. A bombardment group with no capabilities to launch aircraft or lvt. Just flatten coastal and near coastal bases/towns.[img]

[John Hynds]

Iowa class would be kinda overkill. No planes or pt boats should be able to get close to an Iowa class BB because of it's armament. The North Carolina class were built in the Late 30's and would be quite adequate.

[FrodeMk3]

Well, they have 'em in other sims, like IL-2 and Targetware; Only as targets, though. Not something you can use yourself. (Although I saw in Target:Tobruk that there is a work in progress, on being able to use the Vittorio Venetto.)

[DaddyAck]

Iowa class would be kinda overkill. No planes or pt boats should be able to get close to an Iowa class BB because of it's armament. The North Carolina class were built in the Late 30's and would be quite adequate.

Um the armament of BB.55 was almost the same as the Iowa, minor differences.

Hull Number:  BB 55
Keel Laid: October 27, 1937
Launched:  June 13, 1940
Commissioned: April 9, 1941
Decommissioned:  June 27, 1947
Length: 728 feet 5/8 inches long
Extreme Beam: 108 feet 3 7/8 inches wide
Mean Draught:  31 feet 7 inches normal, 35 feet 6 inches maximum
Displacement: 36,600 tons standard, 44,800 tons full load
Complement:  2,339 (144 officers and 2,195 enlisted)
Speed:   28 knots
Armament:  9 16-inch/45 caliber guns
20 5-inch/38 caliber guns
60 40mm/56 caliber guns
48 20mm/70 caliber guns

[BaldEagl]

I think it would be nice to see.

[DaddyAck]

Sure would, a nice KM surface fleet with KMS Bismarck BB KMS Prinz Eugen CA and a host of Z.99 DDs (if you want to get hypothetical throw in a functional KMS Graf Zeplin CV complete with Bf.109Ts)....
Ok I know Im just kidding with the KMS Graf Zeplin, as it was floated but never finnished out and the Bf.109t cancelled shortly there after.  But the surface fleet the the KM admralty dreampt of but would never have would be a sweet sweet thing. 

[Hitman20]

I think we should take the task force we have now, and just replace the CA with a BB.

[DaftDog]

Yeah! I think so, but maybe only up to Pennsylvania class, cuz Iowa class ( Missouri)
would be REAL tough to fight.

Check on Wiki for the Info in battleship classes above, for all concerned.

But still, I say we do it!

[DiabloTX]

No wa dood.  Teh texas would PWN joooo!1!!!!!!


pffft, noobz.

[chrish483]

I try very hard NOT to be a newbie or a dw33b, but:

USS IOWA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(with her 1945 armament, of course)

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Yossarian

hay are you from IOWA?  i live 35 mils SE of DesMoines.  hell ya  the USS IOWA

[chrish483]

You see, this is why we can't have civilized discussions on these forums anymore... 

I'll agree with that, most havent looked but we do have a battleship in the CV's or most of them that is,  tho it only has 8inch guns but still a battleship.

[DaddyAck]

No wa dood.  Teh texas would PWN joooo!1!!!!!!


pffft, noobz.

USS Texas BB.35 was a veteran of both WWI and WWII.  However to say that it would own is a little much.  She is after all a reagular dreadnought laid down in 1911 and completed in 1914, not forgetting her many modernizations she is still an aged desighn compared to the later super dreadnoughts of 60,000 - 70,000 tons.

[Lukanian-7]

zOMG thn u neeed to see my post on teh yahmatoe!1!11!!!11

To paraphrase Jenna Jemison on her favorite co-star, "Eighteen inches of goodness, baby!"

zOMFGZ!!!1!1ElevtieUNO~! Pr0n?!?!? 

[DiabloTX]

No way mang, the texas was teh uber!  I mean it had to be it was named TEH TEXAS!1!1!!!eleventyoneunoeinetc...!11!1!