You have the chance to captain any ship in the world. What do you pick?
Pic related.
>>27786852
>>27786852
The USS friendship anon.
>>27786852
>captain any ship... What do you pick?
>>27786852
Have fun getting rekt by anything larger than a PT boat I guess
I don't know of any ship prettier than this one.
>>27786976
I can think of a no better man to captain the USS Friendship, given your vast experience with the Friendzone.
>>27787035
I fly on maritime patrol aircraft and part of our deal is photographing yachts and making sure they know the entry requirements, etc. In over ten years, I've seen a dick:boobs ratio of something like 10:1 which is just massively unfair. That being said, I've found that boat right there - or a better version of it.
<5kts of wind, blue sky, in a glorious bit of coastal waters, with a 45-foot long sailing cat anchored behind a pretty little island - and one dude on deck, naked - but three women there with him, all nude, and waving as we flew past - one of them did star jumps.
I'm not sure they realised we had a tape running on the EO turret, haha
>>27786852
>>27787076
eight there with you
>>27786852
One that stays in dry dock the most.
I fucking hate the ocean.
>>27786852
>>27787253
>Not having an actual swimming pool inside the quasi-Swimming Pool curves on the replica go-kart track
I'm not buying it
>>27786852
TOPKEK AMERISHIT! Have fun getting destroyed by DF-21D.
DF-21D
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2
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![cutaway[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qE5fEBx.jpg "cutaway[1].jpg")
Any Ohio class submarine still in the SSBN configuration.
>>27787644
>Embracing the bubblehead suck.
Good on you anon.
>>27787866
That's the Richelieu. Yamoto had triple turrets.
>>27787760
The Connie? I'd like to be a gunner aboard her.
>>27787866
>yamato
Triggered
>>27787934
What's with the single lifted gun?
>>27787964
probably testing shit out
The only option.
We Jellicoe now.
She's my home state and a historical ship.
The other littoral combat ship class is really rad looking. I understand they're both shit, but I'm deciding on style.
>>27788025
How shallow can this thing go?
>>27788041
13 ft draft.
>>27787964
The battleship has just woken up.
>>27788100
...that's oddly adorable sounding actually.
>>27787964
A triple gun turret can move it's guns independently, a three gun turret cannot.
>pic related
Left or right, /k/?
>>27788567
left
I want to give her a good home because Putin is fucking her and all of her sisters up.
>>27788567
>Russian warship
>American warship
>in China
Wow.
>>27788654
>American
>>27788684
>Ticonderoga
>not American
>>27788692
>Ticonderoga
>in that picture
Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
CYKA BLYAT
>>27788704
TVOYU MAT
>>27788567
I didn't know that the Ticonderoga class has S-300Fs.
And looked nothing like a Ticonderoga.
She's an ugly bitch, but I like her.
>>27788692
Anon, you dun fucked up.
>>27787070
How often do those patrols run? Is it hit and miss, or do you pretty good tabs on most small boats on international voyages?
My Military Sealift Command ships have been buzzed many times by foreign patrols.
>>27788754
Certainly not comprehensive, but I'd say a reasonable sample are detected. Depends on how many aircraft a country operates and how much coastline they have to surveil - The Netherlands has an easier job than Austraila for example
I stand a decent chance of being a captain of one of these within 10 years.
>>27788684
Oh, shoot, I took the file name seriously. PLAN frigate?
>>27788791
Are they nice ships?
>>27788791
Oh fuck I love these ships, any pics of the inside or just pics in general?
>>27788798
Type 052C.
>>27788716
>>27788704
IIIIIIIIIDIIIIIIIIIIII NAHUIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Because i want that everyone on board to call me "herr Kaleun"
>>27788567
Also that is Varyag, not Moskva.
>>27787418
That's a boat anon...
>>27786852
>LCS
Enjoy your 3 section underway watch rotation.
>>27787760
good choice m8
i'd probably choose the same, only because Im American.
Zumwalt Class Destroyer
Railgun is tacticool
>>27788791
I think they are going to test railgun on her.
>>27788910
i agree. it'd be cool to be cutting edge
>>27788910
>>27788918
>not Aegis
>>27787253
> Honey, move the helicopter please, i want to play tennis.
It's an obvious answer but Gerald R ford
I love the idea of commanding a carrier
>>27787057
underrated kek
>>27786852
>pic fucking related
My great grand-pappy helped build the guns on that son-bitch. I want to fire them more than anything.
>tfw 16" is perfectly adequate to wreck most shit on Earth.
>>27788848
All of these are fucking top tier
>>27786852
I would captain a Boghammer
>troll the fuck out of USN ships
>take a piss into the Arabian gulf in view of their bridge crews
>point my Dshk at them. They can't do shit to me.
>drive fast at them and then suddenly stop to make them shit their pants.
>know that I and 20 of my buddies could sink a DDG.
>>27788100
>>27788132
and probably appropriate. Stands to reason they'd check shit out before leaving port.
>those feels of now picturing battleships as mechanical waifus
>>27788993
What really happens
>Get shredded by air burst cannon rounds
I'd get me one of those new LCS littoral ships so I could cruise the coasts and invite ladies back to my littoral ship. Then when they get offended because they misunderstood what I said I can sperg out on them and give them a big lecture about the difference between the Littoral zone and the limnetic zone and how they're just dirty whores for thinking I said clitoral ship. Then I'll remind them that it's a 479 Million dollar ship built for war and they can't come on board because they're not classy or scientific. Then I'll go back to my ship and sit on top of it because it's mine.
Limnetic zone is stupid anyway.
>>27788993
>ship in range of your Dshk
>you're not in range of ship's weapons
>>27788791
moar
currently serve on one?
![t0c3P9a[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/oTu7ZJg.jpg "t0c3P9a[1].jpg")
>>27786852
Tbh I'd go something that's more reasonably sized, something like the Hamina-class.
>>27789011
kek
>>27789053
>that camo
My penis is fully erect
>>27789011
The USN surface fleet of 2015 are trained to take the first hit. Their ROE shows it.
I really shouldn't be the first person posting this, you should be sad /k/
>>27789116
Have fun sinking, faggot.
>>27789176
s2 never
>>27789208
Well I'll be intelligent enough not to take it out during a tropical storm
>>27788979
my nigga.
say what you will about this series, i love what they did with this ship. they really nailed the cramped submarine-like feeling on this one.
>>27789322
im a mong. forgot pic
>>27789335
You know, I actually watched this series, and I have to say, I liked it.
>>27787070
AeOps on an Orion? Are you MAD?
Or Tacco? Or sensman? Nav? AO?
ECM/ESM guy here anon
>>27789355
as did I. I kinda got tired of TNG and voyager's bullshit miracle science saving the day. it was nice to see a series where it felt like they werent completely omnipotent.
Awful lot of heresy up in here
>>27786852
Agreed. To bad it only has one gun. Why does the navy have a ship that can't sink others.
It seems like a dedicated minesweeper could do the job better and doesn't every destroyer have asw capabilities? Not to mention all of our fucking subs.
>>27789418
The only one that makes sense is the MMSC variant. It at least has a VLS.
>>27789068
You omitted the part about not being at a state of war.
>>27788800
Yes. Pretty nimble and adaptable for what it is, but has some dissapointing limitations as you venture further from it's core mission.
>>27788802
Pic related.
>>27788915
Right class, different hull I think.
>>27789041
I'm between ships atm, but I was on her for a while.
>>27789418
>To bad it only has one gun.
Poe's law, I cannot tell if people just repeat bait/trolling about the LCS ships or if they genuinely have no idea what weaponry the ships have permanently and modularly.
If you don't want to sail the high seas on a dreadnought, you are wrong.
>>27787627
>Thinks the Dong is a functional weapon system.
Sure. Yeah. Those work.
>>27789409
Tacco is the closest, but we're a smaller aircraft and we're setup very differently with not as many sensors/crew.
How's life on an Orion? I grew up on a diet of Tom Clancy, so I've always been fascinated by how you guys do ASW, etc
>>27789455
>Right class, different hull I think
Its planned for the Trenton.
Not a glorious life like other Dreadnoughts, but she served well.
>>27789019
Most /k/ answer so far
>>27788567
Left, if you're gonna be evil, you best fucking look the part
>>27789455
>I'm between ships atm, but I was on her for a while.
Seeing as you're on here I'd say you stand exactly zero chance of ever captaining anything.
Good luck though.
>>27789416
Not a dauntlessness class light cruiser, its like you don't even like hunting down pirates and slicing there ships in half
Love the looks of these
>>27789622
Not him, but most people have enough downtime to post here. 4chan doesn't limit your career.
>>27789644
no, but being the kind of person that goes on 4chan does.
Not saying this as a general thing, plenty of successful people on here, but I highly, highly doubt the upper echelons of military command would so much as look sideways at 4chan for entertainment.
>>27789649
But you dont know faggot
>>27789652
So you're telling me there's a 1% chance this guy browses /k/? Maybe goes over to /b/ sometimes for the loli?
>>27789661
Probably browses /balt/.
>>27789219
Is this show any good?
>>27789661
Damn, that guy only makes $250k. No wonder government workers are all corrupt.
>>27789670
It's OK. Saved by the character designs.
The first episode is very different from the rest of it though.
>>27789684
Different in a good or bad way?
>>27789649
I find /k/ interesting for all of the /x/-tier conspiracies on weapons programs. It makes me feel better about my job knowing the general public is clueless.
I frequent reddit too, and all their threads are stuffy congressional reports and retired general books. How boring.
>>27789702
It goes from huge space robot battles to water world. With a space robot.
>>27789707
>knowing the general public is clueless.
You realize a good 60% of what you read is probably trolling and shitposting, right?
Right?
>>27789702
>>27789702
Well the first episode shows a mech suit as one grunt in a massive space battle - the mech suit is one of the grunts, which there are millions of.
In contrast, that one measly grunt suit is a superweapon to the technology the Earth fleets have.
That contrast is what made the show enjoyable for me. Also, Chamber is a literal bro-bot.
>>27789746
Obviously. There's vatniks and 50 centers too. 4chan is primarily entertainment for me.
Would be fun until some retard in an A-wing blips through my bridge.
i want to commandeer it and call it my own.
>guise am i doin it rite
i have always been facinated by these
>>27787995
You'll never take the Falklands you know
>>27788791
Is this the Giffords?
>Her captain is a /k/ommando
>>27789649
>upper echelons
There are quite a few ships around, and I know some terrible terrible people who have been promoted to Captain, so I feel my odds are good ;)
>not wanting underwater futuristic ship with your own dolphin
>>27787253
love the "life-yachts".
>not wanting to blast around the universe in a ship powered by an infinite probability drive and crew including a manic depressive robot and two alcoholic aliens.
>>27790744
but, that's not the name of the /K/ warship!
>>27791634
it's posts like this that make me wish I had a "not a faggot" gif.
>>27786852
Say what you want about the LCS ships.
But they're bringing Dazzle back, and that's a good thing.
![SeaShadow-DNSC9400409[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5XEh44i.jpg "SeaShadow-DNSC9400409[1].jpg")
Does this thing still exist or has it been scrapped?
>>27791862
It's rusting away in that massive ship graveyard in California.
![K32_HMS_Helsingborg_Anchored-of-Gotska-Sandoen_cropped[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/D0g1RlS.jpg "K32_HMS_Helsingborg_Anchored-of-Gotska-Sandoen_cropped[1].jpg")
>>27791862
Alternatively one of these.
>>27791880
That's a shame. I like it.
>>27791895
It was a tested bed, nothing more. I think a lot of the tech went on to be used in the DDX and LCS programs. Along with any refits for our frigates, destroyers and cruisers.
I'm not 100% sure though.
>>27789416
>not a Retribution
nigga
>>27791920
Retribution are generally shit.
>>27791909
Yeah I'm pretty sure I've read the same thing. Still, it's a neat looking thing and I'm sure it can be weaponized somehow.
>>27791862
It was scrapped after they couldn't find any buyers to make it a museum ship.
>>27788979
>not the defiant
>>27791929
>
>>27791999
Checked.
Warhammer is gay though.
>>27786852
this
>>27792030
> mfw
>>27788930
>Aegis
>Cutting edge
time traveler from 1974 pls go
>>27789464
> modularly
kek
there are currently exactly zero mission modules available for the LCS. what you see (i.e. utter shit) is what you get.
>>27786852
>>27792030
Man, I love the Kirov's hull shape, they look just agressive enough imo
>>27791882
Min neger.
Saw one of those at the Muskö base, they look better in reality than on pictures I've got to say.
Too bad they've been so gimped by politics.
>>27789649
But I enjoy it, as i have for the last 5 years. Even have Clover on my phone.
>sqd cc for one of the AF ISR AMXS'
Exactly what this anon said>>27789707
>>27791226
seaquest was the shit
>>27792015
nah
>>27792220
Yeah, it is.
Pic related, its you.
>>27792233
meanie
you're not coming to the next LAN party
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>>27787760
I just want to sail her to the UK and blow the shit out of Victory while blasting patriotic music so Connie will become the oldest commissioned ship period
Oh hey guys.
My little fishing boat, couldn't find a picture of it, so have a very similar one.
>>27787052
That's like the piper cub of sailing or some shit. Nice.
>>27792332
I didn't read what you posted, but I hope you have a nice day regardless.
>>27791935
Well, according to Ben Rich's memoirs, the plan was to make a stealth ship capable of carrying 60 Patriot missiles and send them ahead of the CVBGs to shoot down any incoming Backfire before they had a chance of getting to the flat top.
Also from that book there's the story about Navy officers not wanting to be the skipper on this because they only had three guys to boss around.
this
>>27789498
NOT AMERICAN NFO
FUCKING DROPPED
>>27792368
>dem harpoon tubes
>>27792233
>Fedora
>40k
Pick one
Now if you said MTG i'd agree with you.
>>27793505
You know the goodness.
>>27792855
I'll never forgive the Brits for cutting her up. She should have been preserved as a museum ship and I should have been able to go crawling all over her. IT AIN'T FAIR.
/sullen funk
>>27787269
Charles de gaulle?
>>27788567
>Tico
kek.
I would pilot the Lord Ligonier, and scuttle it with a full load.
>>27789019
Seems legit
Probably something like this.
Starting official thread in a moment.
>control +F
>iowa
> 0 results.
Seriously /k/ no 16" gun love?
Doesn't 215 MILLION foot pounds! at the muzzle get anyone hot under the collar?
>>27786852
the only correct choice
The Montana.
It truly pains me that we never went through with building AT LEAST ONE of these during the war.
>>27794589
forgot pic
>>27794558
I've slept on the USS New Jersey, beautiful ship
Roma makes my dick hard. Look a those lifeboats, the tease!
>>27794756
forgot pick
Hooty hoo
>>27794418
ayy you're alive
I thought the men in black suits got to you.
>>27792030
Mine negro. But that's only with the guarantee that I don't end up dying from some horrible reactor accident.
Otherwise a Flight III Arleigh Burke would me my next choice.
the one with the most nukes.
this and then shoot at / ram an Italian naval vessal and get all these nignogs killed
>>27789464
Without the surface warfare package it does only have the one gun if you are not counting small arms.
Even with he 2 30mm any speed boat with an anti ship middle can get decently close. Those guns don't have great range.
It seems way to vulnerable.
>>27787644
What towed array is on the Ohio class? TB-15/16?
>>27794810
They did.
I'm being deported in what?
6 or 7 days.
So i chose Indonesia to settle down.
>>27786852
Sneaky sneaky.
>>27788567
The title to that image is completely wrong lol
The ship on the left is the Varyag a Slava class cruiser in active service to Russia
The ship on the right is the Zhengzhou, a Type 052C destroyer in service to China
The photos also miss leading, the varyag is a far larger ship. as can be seen in this photo.
>>27789782
most triggering part of muh childhood desu
even as a kid it was bullshit that a gorrillion x 100000 fukhuge world killing ship could be disabled by a small kinetic impact
fuck you Lucas
>>27795123
Can those AShM's only fire forward, or can they shoot to the sides as well? Does that affect range or anything?
You'd think they'd just upgrade to VLS, right? It can't be that expensive, they've got enough room on the ship(s) I'd think, and it's not like the Ruskies are inexperienced with that kind of thing...
>>27796168
I'm assuming your talking about the Varyag?
The AShM missiles that the Varyag sports is the P-1000 Vulkan, capable of mid-flight course corrections so the missile can turn completely around in flight.
And you underestimate the shear size of these missiles, at almost 12 meters in length, the Slava class cruisers just don't have the Draught for it (8.4 meters).
The only ships that can possess these missiles in anything remotely VLS like is the Kirov Class battleships and even then, they are still angled inside the hull.
As a comparison, the tomahawk cruise missile is 5 and a half meters in length.
>>27796405
correction sorry, the Kirov is a battlecruiser, sorry for the slip i'm tired
>>27796168
again, just to put things in comparison, these AShM missiles have a comparable size to some ICBM's such as the Polaris missiles
>>27788738
>ugly bitch
nope, she's beautiful
my ship, pic related
>>27795123
>type 52 destroyer
I think you mean sovremenny, faggot
>SS-N-22 Sunburn goodness
>>27793567
And you didn't post the picture,
>>27794826
>Mine negro. But that's only with the guarantee that I don't end up dying from some horrible reactor accident.
then get the upgraded admiral nakhimov you fcktard OP said you now have goriliions of shekels.
>>27792347
>US and UK decide to go three for three, winner take all
>The championship fight is Connie and Vicky running about in the Med, guns a-hammering.
>>27788142
>triple gun turret
>three gun turret
>>27797930
>44 gun heavy frigate vs 104 gun first rate ship of the line
Oh baby, just use every ounce of your superior speed Constitution, that's what you were built for in these situations.
mfw providing fire support for amphibious landings in Rhodesia from an H44-class battleship
>>27797306
>sovremenny
Why are people so blind?
>>27798130
>amphibious landings in Rhodesia
Top fucking kek. This pretty much sums up Rhodesiatards and why those threads suck so much.
>>27798130
Rhodesia is landlocked dipshit
>>27798264
>>27798213
You can't kill my dreams
Yup.
I'm so disappointed /k/
>Not wanting to participate in the Battle Of Reach
>>27798310
>wanting a hermaphrodite
Keked
>>27789219
well damn..
>>27787253
Please tell me there's some way to drive your go-karts off the track directly onto a dock...
>>27789416
40k ships are so fucking hideous, I love them. It's like if you strapped a cathedral to the Tirpitz.
>>27795224
Pretty sure the idea was that its shields were being pounded by the rebels' capital ships, and flickered long enough for the fighters to get in close and start doing damaged.
Still stupid though. The Empire's shipbuilders had great style, but they weren't so hot on defence.
I would go with this one on her epic voyage
Anyone know what ship this is a model of?
>>27799379
Never mind, found it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_monitor_Novgorod
>>27798971
>It's like if you strapped a cathedral to the Tirpitz.
>This is somehow bad
>>27792030
Russian ships tend be referred to in the male sense, and now I see why.
>>27799438
Because its named after a dude. Imperatritsa Mariya was 'she'.
I'd love an IRL submersible carrier.
>>27799438
>fails to notice the squat, circular Russian ship three posts up
>>27791992
Looks like there's a picatinny rail section out front.
>>27798299
well, technically...
>>27797930
God damnit, This literally gave me an erection. I might have a problem.
>>27799464
we have that already. it's just that we send all the aircraft on one way trips
>a different time
>a better time
Airship is still a ship
Ramform Atlas
All the power of a full ship, but cut in half so your full-speed deployable zone is huge
>>27798321
>to get obliterated for poser earth.
I'd rather die for humanity fuck yeah planet
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>pic related
>>27799468
So he has vodka gut, so what?
>>27801893
Lewd
>>27799876
>This literally gave me an erection. I might have a problem.
Wel/k/ome to /k/, the most magical of places!
>>27788791
>wtf is it?
What I would give to captain the old girl at the height of her power.
>>27792119
Those red decks tho
Noah's Ark
>>27802418
the fuck
>>27802428
Noah's Ark
A man o' war
>>27802418
>destroy 4 b29s for lame kids film
dammit disney
>>27787866
A HOTEL
H
O
T
E
L
>>27787995
Brother you got to go bigger
>>27798015
>triple gun turret
He implies 3 single guns located inside of one turret, each capable of independent movement
>three gun turret
Implies a turret with 3 guns, but all guns move as one
>>27798990
No.
Admiral Ackbar ordered the fleet to concentrate their fire on the Super Star Destroyer but it was a pair of A-wings who destroyed the shield generator protecting the bridge and then a dip shit A-wing pilot kamikazied into the bridge.
Video related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW_hGOFukMQ
>>27789116
Your taste for riverboats does you credit.
But nothing compares to the communist sheer accumulation of firepower on a vessel.
>>27799379
Ah yes, the Novgorod ; the ship that spinned when it fired its guns. I guess it didn't matter if you were already seasick.
>>27789335
They just gave those out for free in STO a few days ago
>tfw flying around all of the massive ships in your tiny 200 year old classic.
>>27786852
Wilson!
![47[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gAQTs9m.jpg "47[1].jpg")