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>47,000 tons of armor
>gets hit by one shell
>explodes

Daily reminder that battlecruisers are the worst meme in naval history

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>>31163629
Ain't i a stinker ?

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>>31163799
>stinker
>not sinker

>>31163811
Well shit i missed that one.

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>800 tons of wood
>turns while it's windy
>capsizes and sinks

Daily reminder that carracks are the worst meme in naval history.

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>>31163629

>1000000 tons of no armor
>pretty much rules the world

Daily reminder that carriers are the best meme in naval history.

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>160 km of quadanium steel
>gets hit by one torpedo
>explodes

Daily reminder that battle stations are the worst meme in galactic record

>>31163699
"There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today"

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>one Borg cube
>40 Federation starships
>Enterprise has to wait and repair itself after her Captain gets assimilated

Federation starships are the worst meme i the Alpha Quadrant

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>5km long, 1km wide slave-driven vessel of 'FUCK YOU' Notre Dame style
>In the warp too long due to constant current shift
>Power to the Geller field fails and everyone is ripped apart by semi-etheral daemons

The Emperor protects.

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>>31163629

reminder that Germany had ONE carrier and they scrapped it.

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>Sunk by two Italian torpedo boats.

>>31167326
You don't need a carrier when you got Allah watching your back

>>31163902
>Ridiculously expensive.
>Only useful if you're an island nation or you're fighting an island nation.

>>31167745
It's only an island if you look at it from the water.

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>>31163869
You could have told us about wind!

>>31165250
Seem to be something wrong with our bloody commanding officer today

>amirite

Destroyers are love
Destroyers are life

>>31167745
>fighting an island nation
>forgetting about coastal nations
>Iraq was landlocked but still used carrier strikes against it

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>>31168212
>Iraq was landlocked

>>31163629
to be fair it was struck by over 70 torpedoes that had zero effect before it was struck by one torpedo in the rudder.
>>31163799
>>31163811
>stinker
>not sinker
neither as the swordfish did not sink the Bismark, it only Disabled it. Bismark was sunk by the "King Gorge V" and the "Rodney" only after 700, yes thats right 700 main battery shells were pumped into the Bismark at quite close range.

say what you will about the Bismark being employed improperly without any support Vs the entire Scapa flow fleet but you can say that the Bismark and other ships of her class weren't durable as fuck. like the Tirpitz that took 2 direct hits and 2 near misses from 14,000lbs Tallboy bombs to sink

>>31168212
>Iraq was landlocked.

Also, see:
>>31167745
>Only useful if YOU'RE AN ISLAND NATION...
Now, unless I'm mistaken, the US is situated in North America, a considerable distance over water from the rest of the world.

>>31163869
>>31168179

Both had ultimately the same problem. The ships were too top heavy. Mary rose had too many guns to its weight meaning that the gun ports would take in water when making a too hard of a turn but that is nothing compared to the failure of what was Wasa that had so much (unnecssary) weight on top due to decorations that were demanded by the Kings massive ego that a mere sea breeze was able to capsize the whole ship.

>>31163629
Propellers (or paddle wings) are possibly the most vulnerable part of any mechanized ship past or present. Without propulsion you're a sitting duck.

>>31163699
Lucky shot hitting the ships magazine. This has happened many times in history of naval warfare and the result has always been pretty much the same: Instant kill.

>>31168253
>only after 700, yes thats right 700 main battery shells were pumped into the Bismark at quite close range.
Why stop at 700? Why not 70,000? As long as we are making numbers up, the sky is the limit.

>>31168253
>say what you will about the Bismark being employed improperly without any support
Bismarck was on a commerce raiding mission and it was absolutely proper to deploy alone.


>Vs the entire Scapa flow fleet
Bismarck met two small task forces.

>>31168253
Was it the rudder? I had the recollection that the propellers were damaged meaning the ship couldn't move.

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>>31168250
>>31168510
Functionally landlocked except for the tiny piece to the south.

>>31168592
You can park a carrier in there.

>>31168592
There is no such thing as "Functionally landlocked", burger. Read a book.

>>31168592
>iraq was landlocked
>except for the al faw peninsula where it isn't landlocked

Still landlocked guys SHUT UP FUCK YOU.

>>31168580
yeah rudder it could move but not towards france.

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>>31167745
>Only useful if you're an island nation or you're fighting an island nation.
Nigga what?

>>31169315
Say you're America and and you want to project your power against your enemies.
Being on an isolated continent, fighting people very far away, an aircraft carrier is necessary.

Say you're Russia/India/Europe/Saudi Arabia and you want to project your power against your enemies, you don't need an aircraft carrier, you're not isolated and your enemies are nearby.

>>31168253
>to be fair it was struck by over 70 torpedoes that had zero effect before it was struck by one torpedo in the rudder.

no it wasnt, it got hit once, a lucky shot in driving wind and rain that happened to hit and jam badly designed steering gear.

>neither as the swordfish did not sink the Bismark, it only Disabled it. Bismark was sunk by the "King Gorge V" and the "Rodney" only after 700, yes thats right 700 main battery shells were pumped into the Bismark at quite close range.

not all of which hit, the KGV stayed at range for most of the short engagement using plunging fire, thus her accuracy wasnt great and rodney while closer was still trying to hit a moving target in heavy seas, and only closed to close range (3000 yards) after disabling all of bismarcks guns.

the principle problem of sinking any battleship with gunfire is getting hits below the waterline, bismarck had settled so that her belt armor was also below the water line.

she was finished off with torpedoes

>>31167381
Bantz