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The Era Of The Battleship Actually Ended 100 Years Ago (This Photo Is Proof)
19FortyFive ^
| 7/28/2021
| Peter Suciu
Posted on 07/28/2021 5:32:01 AM PDT by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink
What "Photo"?
Required to give the blog a hit to see what the thread title mentions?
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:39:34 AM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: Onthebrink
To: Deaf Smith
It’s a photo of the German battleship Ostfriesland in the process of being sunk by bombs.
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:41:56 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Deaf Smith
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:43:02 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: Onthebrink
Was the Mitchell not just the gunship variant of the B-25?
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:44:06 AM PDT
by
steve8714
(Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
To: All
Just guessing (because I don't do "click-bait") that it's an old photo of the Navy's first carrier,
USS Langley, plus yet another rehash of the century-old argument that carriers made battleships unnecessary...
;^)
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:44:57 AM PDT
by
Who is John Galt?
("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
To: Who is John Galt?
Close, but no cigar (right guess on subject, wrong guess on photo ;^)...
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:48:11 AM PDT
by
Who is John Galt?
("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
To: steve8714
No. The B-25 was officially called the Mitchell, no matter whether it was a bomber or gunship.
To: steve8714
Nope. It was the name of all of the B-25’s
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:56:09 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
To: Onthebrink
Generals and Admirals are always preparing to fight the last war.
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:56:15 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(leave the gun, take the canolis)
To: Onthebrink
Since the invention of the torpedo, battleships and cruisers have been ever more dependent on smaller ships to run screen for them. Technology is increasingly making Dreadnoughts a thing of the past.
To: Onthebrink
Stationary target putting up no defense. A sitting duck. And the bombs which did hit the ship did little damage - it was the near misses that eventually ended the ship.
The AAF had to cheat to get the end result.
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:57:05 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Onthebrink
The last battleship battle was the Battle of Surigao Strait in WW2. That was in 1944 and set the stage for the liberation of the Philippines.
According to my math, 1944 wasn't 100 years ago. But the Dims say math is racist, so there's that. LOL
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posted on
07/28/2021 6:10:03 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Onthebrink
“Just over a century ago, on July 21, 1921, Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell demonstrated the superiority of airpower against naval vessels.”
And 76 years ago the atomic bomb demonstrated its superiority over men equipped with small arm rifles.
But the U.S. still fields men with small arm rifles. And for good reason.
To: Onthebrink
But in the movie “Battleship”, the Missouri was instrumental in repelling Alien invaders. It could take a licking and keep going. The never ships could not. So there.
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posted on
07/28/2021 6:11:34 AM PDT
by
rbg81
(Truth is stranger than fiction)
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: ping jockey
Lemme set the stage...
Year: 2005
Ship: Decommissioned USS America, CV66
Mission: Sink the damn thing
After 4 weeks of bombing, torpedo and missile attacks, she was still afloat.
They had to send in a demolition team and scuttle her.
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posted on
07/28/2021 6:24:42 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
To: Don Corleone
"Generals and Admirals are always preparing to fight the last war."The last war ended as a one-sided nuclear (pronounced "nü-klē-ər", not "nuk-u-lar") war.
A two-sided nuclear war is probably not winnable, so the current war appears to be developing as a biological war, currently one-sided.
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