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Historically speaking superguns have been a bad idea, because they are big, expensive, slow to move, and impossible to hide. So how about we do that, but on a boat! I know the Gustav gun and maybe some of the stuff that Saddam was cooking up could fit on a frigate-sized craft so how about it? How effective would it be?
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>shoot supergun
>capsize
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>>34325310
>the ss hussein spots a somali pirate boat on the horizon
>gun loads
>CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK
>dozens of crew members killed and injured
>gun fires
>entire ship torn apart
>explosion heard around the world
>wreck unrecognisable
>achmed and his buddies wiped out by 30 foot wave
would be pretty successful i'd say
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shit idea, try this instead
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... so, a battleship?
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>>34325314
fpbp
You need an excessive amount of weight on your boat to keep the recoil of your guns from fucking it up. The Russians dabbled with large recoilless guns to get around that but they were so bad they executed the guy who designed them for treason.
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>>34325310
>yfw the Gustav was made to poke holes in the Maginot Line
>yfw we can do that now without a bigass cannon
Truly MOP bombs are the ordnance of patricians
You and your oversized testicle compensator can go break a ship in half somewhere else.
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>>34325811
I forgot your face, sorry about that man.
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>>34325310
>I know the Gustav gun and maybe some of the stuff that Saddam was cooking up could fit on a frigate-sized craft so how about it? How effective would it be?
*Cough*
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>>34326011
Imagine if they somehow built that fucking thing. All that effort for a ship that would have been killed by a Grand Slam bomb on its very first mission.
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>>34327103
I wonder how much it would cost if you were to build it today...
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>>34327103
Why didn't they use Grand Slams on naval targets more often?
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>>34327143
Well, a quick google search reveals that steel costs roughly $300 per tonne, and the H45 was supposed to be 560,000 tonnes at normal displacement. So at minimum, you're looking at $168,000,000 for just the basic raw materials. Actual cost would be much, much higher than that because of the skill labor involved in shaping those materials into a battleship.
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>>34327174
They did use them on Tirpitz. That's what finally killed her after years of unsuccessful bombing raids.
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>>34327227
So you're saying there's a chance?
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>>34325744
Or a monitor.
Maybe we should bring back the M class submarines?
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>>34326011
This reminds me of pic related
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>>34325811
>>34325834
Ultra High Performance Concrete and modern anti-air weapons make the MOP nigh useless against any near equivalent enemy.
So if the US faced a modern Maginot "line" it would hastily recommission the nearest WW1/2 siege artillery or suffer massive aircraft losses trying to deliver ineffective bunker busters.
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