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Re: Lego seems to be copying Mega Blocks
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Sun, 23 May 2004 05:00:20 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mark Riley wrote:
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The U.S. Navy has apparently decommissioned all of its battleships:
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They didn’t have much choice in the matter. The main guns have to be fed ammo
in a specific sequence to compensate for changes in gun barrel geometry due to
heat from firing the previous round(s). Rumor is that they’ve just been working
through the stock of shells produced for WW2, and that noone knows the exact
specs for producing them anymore. It’s not that they’re running out of shells,
but that they’re running out of the shells they need to fire first. Reagan
did bring back four battleships during the 80’s, but they were again retired
after the Gulf War.
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Do any other navies have battleships, or is the battleship pretty much
obsolete nowadays?
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They’re about as obsolete as the musket. They still work, and very effectively,
but there are better options out there. Battleships can fire very far inland
(especially with the 16” guns), but they are imprecise and cause a lot of
collateral damage. Aircraft carriers can launch fighter-bombers carrying
smart-bombs that will explode when they reach the floor or even specific room
of a building that you’ve targetted. When you compare that level of precision
to having someone sitting on a hill and radioing back to the battleship, “No,
you’re hitting two miles to the northwest of the target”, and knowing that there
might be schools and hospitals two blocks away from your target, that’s not
accurate enough. Also, with the advent of missile-based warfare, there’s not as
much need for the amount of ballistic impact armor hefted around by battleships,
especially when you can park your aircraft carrier well out of harm’s way and
send a sortie of planes to take care of business.
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| (...) The U.S. Navy has apparently decommissioned all of its battleships: (URL) any other navies have battleships, or is the battleship pretty much obsolete nowadays? Mark Note: Still no generic lugnet.off-topic group to send this to... :-( (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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