Stupid thoughts

[sobo]

Yeah, but mine was better.

Really, Dude...?

 

[Flopsweat]

Yeah, but mine was better.

 

[Xaevian]

If you use a self help book to try to improve yourself, is that cheating?




Shouldn't you do that yourself instead of getting help?

 

[Richo877]

 

[CamoDeafie]

Is there a reason the Navy can't just fill a cargo freighter with vertical launchers to enable bombardment with over 100s of missiles?

 

[Xaevian]

Is there a reason the Navy can't just fill a cargo freighter with vertical launchers to enable bombardment with over 100s of missiles?

Then where would the carsgo?

 

[CamoDeafie]

Then where would the carsgo?

With all the surplus super cargo freighters out there.. it just struck me as odd, because something like what I described would be the modern analogy to the old school anti sub warfare Naval trawlers employed by the Allied during WW2...

 

[CamoDeafie]

I mean.. the Russians have something like this already; the Club K missile system, a launcher that's inside a standard shipping container... and then the Danes have the Stanflex system



The USN has the MK41 VLS; such a system could be ideal for filling what used to be the cargo/fish holds of a trawler or light freighter type of cargo ship

 

[sobo]

I mean.. the Russians have something like this already; the Club K missile system, a launcher that's inside a standard shipping container... and then the Danes have the Stanflex system View attachment 1424934View attachment 1424935

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The USN has the MK41 VLS; such a system could be ideal for filling what used to be the cargo/fish holds of a trawler or light freighter type of cargo ship

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I was just reading something earlier this week (some might call this an example of the Simulation Hypothesis - but that's another discussion for a different time) describing the use of Q-ships during both World Wars by both sides to the conflicts. Q-ships were basically heavily-armed merchant steamers with concealed weaponry (much like these shipping container missile systems). The idea behind the Q-ship was to lure an opposing submarine to the surface to engage the (ostensibly merchant) Q-ship, thereby saving the sub's limited number of torpedoes and instead using its deck gun, whereupon the Q-ship would then drop the ruse de guerre and fire upon, and often sink, the unsuspecting submarine. The Q-ship fell out of favor following WWII, being considered against the Laws of War, and also the fact that later (nuclear-powered) submarines did not need to surface at all to attack surface ships.

 

[CamoDeafie]

I was just reading something earlier this week (some might call this an example of the Simulation Hypothesis - but that's another discussion for a different time) describing the use of Q-ships during both World Wars by both sides to the conflicts. Q-ships were basically heavily-armed merchant steamers with concealed weaponry (much like these shipping container missile systems). The idea behind the Q-ship was to lure an opposing submarine to the surface to engage the (ostensibly merchant) Q-ship, thereby saving the sub's limited number of torpedoes and instead using its deck gun, whereupon the Q-ship would then drop the ruse de guerre and fire upon, and often sink, the unsuspecting submarine. The Q-ship fell out of favor following WWII, being considered against the Laws of War, and also the fact that later (nuclear-powered) submarines did not need to surface at all to attack surface ships.

Very similar concept that I'm presenting. Actually might be very useful against say... a certain nation trying to control the South China Sea...

Edit. Try picking out the one cargo ship full of such missiles like the Club K from the rest of the cargo ships traversing South China Sea...

 

[sobo]

Very similar concept that I'm presenting. Actually might be very useful against say... a certain nation trying to control the South China Sea...

Pretty sure that could result in an escalation of hostilities that no one wants...

Edit. Try picking out the one cargo ship full of such missiles like the Club K from the rest of the cargo ships traversing South China Sea...

At which point, a certain nation trying to control the South China Sea would just "open up" on any (and possibly every) cargo vessel in the area.
Then, see my supposition immediately above...

 

[CamoDeafie]

Unless one nation or two are already trying to sneak such missile systems onto ships...

 

[Richo877]

 

[Flopsweat]

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[Richo877]

 

[OldBroad44]

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Coulda been worse. Such as:

Fill tank
Clear out bank accts
Cancel joint credit cards
Pack clothes, guns, jewelry

 

[Richo877]

 

[CamoDeafie]

Does "Check yourself, vodka" sound like an European country's name?

 

[teflon6string]

Never caught a break in my life... so it's ironic to find myself here, today, with front-row seats for this shjt show.

 

[Flopsweat]

Shattle