I think this struck a pretty good balance between "Beating the world's 'best' navy 5-0" and "Surviving for well over 200 years"
Whats your favorite and why?
What is your favorite ship of all time?
Evan Powell
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Liam Russell
The one you posted.
The connie is a fucking beast in all regards.
Brayden Jones
user whats your favorite thing about the Constition. Mine is the nickname "Old Iron sides"
also I like how she can block canonballs.
Jayden Powell
The only active ship on the Navy's roster that has actually engaged an enemy vessel in combat.
Jose King
I just happened to be at the Conley Freight terminal in South Boston last Friday and saw them turning Old Ironsides around. They were firing cannons at Fort Independence on a Castle Island to salute her. Fucking awesome.
Kevin Garcia
wait did I make a thread that literally nobody disagrees with?
Bentley Clark
Battleship Texas god bless the USA and im gay maybe that helps go die
Dominic King
Pic related.
Mid 19th century European ironclads were so much more metal than America's designs at the time.
Jacob Robinson
The H.L Hunley. But only because it killed over 3 times more rebels than union sailors.
James Thomas
Ew. You have GOT to be kidding.
Nicholas Jenkins
>Beating the world's 'best' navy 5-0
By running away from actual ships of the line.
>Surviving for well over 200 years
Byproduct of the above.
Don't get me wrong, not being sunk is a real achievement.
Jose Baker
She was incredibly armed for her class and of course the armor.
Also her combat record is incredible.
Justin Fisher
Yeah, that was the point. She was fast enough to escape anything that could sink her and also fast enough to run down everything else.
Jace Perry
she's not just fast she's from the past?
Jaxson Clark
CSS Alabama
Xavier Edwards
>kills its own crew three times
Holy shit, read a book about it once. I believe the second time they raised is after an unintentional sinking they found the helmsman’s corpse with his head in an air pocket in the forward conning tower, and several crankmen clustered beneath him. Horrific stuff.
Nathan James
from the past because she's fast
Sebastian Campbell
I get hard for anything with 2 SeaRAMs
Tyler Martinez
Because it allowed the sinking of the Bismarck via its horde of motorized kites, and I love that British Naval Aviation has always been about doing the job with the absolute bare minimum technical requirements and competencies.
Ryder Green
See it in your heart, know it to be true.
Gabriel Hernandez
>British Naval Aviation has always been about doing the job with the absolute bare minimum technical requirements and competencies
I feel that's the Australian Defence Force in a nutshell. We can do almost everything a much larger country and Defence Force can do, but in small amounts.
Nathan Wood
Yeah, the point is that's more like privateering than naval warfare. It's a bit like claiming to have won a sumo match because you can run faster. It works until the sumo decides to just burn down your house.
Easton Sullivan
That is the whole deal with frigates in the age of sail. Frigates were fast, well armed and absurdly good postings for sailors and officers simply because they get into action so much.
Want prize money and loot? Get posted to a frigate.
See the world? Get posted to a frigate.
Need to slice and dice enemies of your country and the occasional pirate? Get posted to a frigate.
Meet exotic women and fuck them? Get posted to a frigate.
The Connie is an extreme example because she was at the very top edge of what a frigate was at the time. That is why she outfought her contemporaries and outran the heavier opposition.
Jace Ramirez
I've always thought the coast guard cutters were sexy
Jordan Brooks
similie kinda fell apart near the end there
Zachary Morris
Not really.
Daniel Murphy
If the Roos decide to upgrade to Aegis Baseline 10 with SPY-6, does the Hobart design have enough room for all the new gizmos? Burke's are maxed out with the new gear.
Ryan Anderson
>HERES TO YOU, THE HUNLEY, AND ALL OF YER BRAVE CREW
Kevin Adams
Based
Virginia class subs. Father was on the one that was featured in red October. He was a nuke, so he ran the reactors.
Subs were always cool. Even billy yank likes subs, despite not making them well enough to be a sub
>inb4 turtle
That is a glorified diving bell
Nathaniel Ward
No idea really about upgrade room, I kinda doubt it if it's a bigger size, but who knows what will happen at it's mid-life upgrade.
>The combination of the AN/SPY-1D(V) radar, Aegis system, and Standard 2 missile will allow each destroyer to fire on enemy aircraft or missiles over 150 kilometres (93 mi) away
>In addition to the main radar, the Hobarts will be fitted with a Northrop Grumman AN/SPQ-9B X-band pulse Doppler horizon search radar, a Raytheon Mark 99 fire-control system with two continuous wave illuminating radars for missile direction
Brandon Murphy
Crew #3 might have crossed the line from brave to stupid.
>Hey the death tube has drowned it's crew twice but I'm feeling lucky
Jose Nelson
Always thought these were neat, but overpriced for what their use is.
Christian Martinez
They actually died from the explosion, some scientists figured it out bout a year ago in August. Essentially, they blew up the power keg bomb thing a bit too close.
Pressing F for the last real Americans
Zachary Brooks
then its time for the next three Roo DDGs to be Flight III Burkes.
Joseph Moore
that the English had to instruct all their ships to stop trying to fight it one on one cause they kept getting btfo
Aiden Long
To be fair IIRC it went to hide in port when a frigate specifically instructed to fuck it 1v1 showed up.
David James
Oliver Ramirez
I think that was ruled out due to cost, extra manpower requirements and a few other factors like needing to be built here. I'm not sure it was actually even offered by the US.
Well, multirole ships have drawbacks, this ship is a fully air defence warship, designed to protect other ships and areas.
In the coming war, I'd say we need more than 3 to face the hordes of Chinese aircraft
Kayden Lopez
It might be cheating since she's not a warship, but there was a time when she was armed and when she also took out a U-boat.
Ryder Scott
The Hobart class was originally a competition between the F105 and the Burke. Burke was the preferred as it offered more bang but since the design offered was just on paper, it was dropped for the F105.
Hudson Scott
>beating the world's best navy
but thats not a french ship user
Jordan Gutierrez
USCGC Eagle, but I'm a coastie so I'm a bit biased. She was initially a war trophy from WWII, but was renamed and currently serves as a training platform for Coast Guard Acadamy cadets in New London. Every summer, they get her underway with cadets and OCS candidates and practice traditional line-and-sail seamanship. You can see her here with the Constitution for scale.
Ryan Miller
gonna be patriotic and say the cutty sark
Gavin Young
I am still confused whether those are cannon ports or just vision slits omitting the porthole to reduce the amount of cleaning up to be done in an engagement.
Chase Reyes
As the end of the battleship era eventually showed, Ships of the Line were an evolutionary dead-end.
Adrian Wilson
Any ship is a warship if you arm it!
Oliver Carter
that lasted only until the RN started deploying Razees to the theatre
Charles Harris
>she was at the very top edge of what a frigate was at the time
It was never a "frigate", stop falling for 200 year old propaganda. It was larger and more heavily-armed than virtually any ship of the line at the time FFS.
Samuel Reyes
The HMS Violence is the backbone of our fleet.
Evan Edwards
HMS Succulent
Alexander Baker
The HMS Assaulter is the fastest in its class
Parker Sullivan
Triremes. Literally just a giant man-propelled ram going across the sea
Blake Wright
CSS Alabama
Matthew Peterson
>Asks for Jow Forums's favourite ship
>posts Jow Forums's favourite ship
Ayden Miller
Wat. It had almost less than half the guns of a third rate. The third rate 74 gunners were the most common ship of the line at this point. It had heavier than average guns compared to any other frigate but a ship of the line possesses guns at least as heavy and more of them.
Luke Clark
HMS Warspite. Absolutely tragic that she was scrapped, toughest ship to ever sail the seas.
Brayden Parker
And more importantly she served the role of a frigate, that is, cruising and patrolling.
Hudson Wood
Hudson Price
Not if you want to do literally anything that isn't reliably taking smaller prizes or occasionally shelling a port belonging to brown people.
Unless you're arguing it was just 200 years ahead of its time and let down by a lack of aircraft.
Lucas Morris
I see you are a man of culture as well, although they are MK31, not SeaRAM
Nathaniel Richardson
Hudson Adams
James Johnson
Patrician taste, I salute you.