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New U.S. DD(X) destroyer sails ahead
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | Jim Wolf

Posted on 11/23/2005 3:10:05 PM PST by Pharmboy

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To: Pharmboy

I am very certain rail guns don't spout flames - other than that looks like a Civil War Ear ironclad.


41 posted on 11/23/2005 3:59:51 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: RandallFlagg

Japan did that in WW2. The look on our faces wasn't pretty.


42 posted on 11/23/2005 4:01:06 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: Polybius

Or the updated version - Galactica.


43 posted on 11/23/2005 4:01:51 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: IonImplantGuru
Snagged a piece of the Macon, South of Monterey on a fishing trip once.
44 posted on 11/23/2005 4:03:56 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Ear=Era. alas spell checker.....


45 posted on 11/23/2005 4:05:27 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: SmithL

The article headline is a bit misleading. The technology of the IJN I-400 submarine class, impressive as it was (even more so since the Allies didn't even know about them until after the war), was more along the lines of large aircraft-carrying submarine vice "giant underwater aircraft carrier."


46 posted on 11/23/2005 4:13:30 PM PST by Captain Rhino (If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense!)
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To: Certain_Doom
It may yet happen:

It's a proposed airship called the "Walrus" and the Army is looking at the feasibility of such a ship. It would be over a football field in length as per the graphic above. Check it out at Gizmag.com

47 posted on 11/23/2005 4:16:05 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: IonImplantGuru

Bubbleheads get the nookie, eh?


48 posted on 11/23/2005 4:19:10 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Snagged a piece of the Macon, South of Monterey on a fishing trip once.

At what depth? My understanding is MBA unmanned submersibles had photographed one of Macon's Sparrowhawks (more or less intact!) on the bottom amidst the wreckage but IIRC, that was several 1,000's of feet down.

Here's one of Macon's F9Cs 'hooking up' after a scouting sortie:

49 posted on 11/23/2005 4:27:38 PM PST by IonImplantGuru ("Me? You talking to me? You talkin' to me? Then [BLEEP]... Well, I'm the only one here.")
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To: azcap

Interesting strategery. Mebbe you should see HR at the Pentagon...


50 posted on 11/23/2005 4:29:19 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: Certain_Doom
Right here...
51 posted on 11/23/2005 4:30:17 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Pharmboy
Bubbleheads get the nookie, eh?

Well, d'oh!
You don't think I was in just for the hazardous duty pay, do you?

52 posted on 11/23/2005 4:31:57 PM PST by IonImplantGuru ("Me? You talking to me? You talkin' to me? Then [BLEEP]... Well, I'm the only one here.")
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To: PAR35

Saw one of them in that "Sky Captain" movie last year. Only it was British and Captained by Angela Jolie.


53 posted on 11/23/2005 4:33:46 PM PST by rbg81
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To: IonImplantGuru

A first cousin of mine was a bubblehead and, come to think of it, his wife is a cutie. And, you dudes have an awful lotta time to think about it...


54 posted on 11/23/2005 4:34:47 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: IonImplantGuru; sasquatch
It's not that deep I don't recall exactly. My best buddy was working on the Point Lobos when MBARI made that trip. I am sure video is around I'll ping him for info.
55 posted on 11/23/2005 4:35:27 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: Pharmboy

Jeepers, it looks like an ironclad.


56 posted on 11/23/2005 5:03:06 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: IonImplantGuru
With that girl, I'd volunteer for sub service.... is that a double entendre?
57 posted on 11/23/2005 5:06:14 PM PST by Porterville (beware the nature-nazis)
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To: tet68
I don't think they'd have any trouble getting them quite a bit below that if they ordered a thousand of them...

Or how about making these available for sale to the general public (US citizens only). :D

58 posted on 11/23/2005 5:11:12 PM PST by Frohickey
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To: Pharmboy

Shhhhhh!

Not so loud, or everyone will be volunteering for Sub Duty.


59 posted on 11/23/2005 5:13:12 PM PST by SmithL (There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
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To: Pharmboy

will it turn China into a lake? that is the question


60 posted on 11/23/2005 5:15:39 PM PST by Cinnamon
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