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Design a ship/doctrine that won't be intimidated by pic related.
Extra points if not railgun/laser/magic
>>28585108
I read this like fourty times and I still do not know what this thread is about.
A giant amphibious battleship that merely crawls up out of the water and over the peninsula. It can rest atop it and provide cover as the rest of the ships pass through.
Or just have some fucking planes fly ahead.
Bomb the peninsula until it's no longer a strait.
20 joint connected kayaks that function like a snake bitch
>>28585146
Assault destroyer, proud to serve!
>>28585133
Pic is Straight of Hormuz. It's an important shipping lane, choke point, and super dangerous for Navy ships if anybody anywhere near by wants to contest control of it.
Design a ship specifically to deal with it. What would it look like?
>>28585108
Czechmate
>>28585214
Inb4 force recon adopts it
>>28585253
>>28585191
Honestly, this is the only sensible option.
>>28585283
Ford class is pretty much the most vulnerable thing possible in Straight of Hormuz.
>>28585108
All of the nukes.
>>28585291
Defeated by a dozen pic related with missiles
>>28585108
create a USMC base that houses tactical nukes as well as two Wasp class and their supporting ships. Throw in some land based mobile Harpoon launchers and have them constantly practice against old ships. Plus have a rapid deployment squadron of naval helicopters that would take part in mining the straits or would take part in anti-ship operations.
Then get an airbase in Saudi Arabia that has B52's and B2's and a few raptors and EW aircraft
other than that, nothing.
Are we completely ignoring that air planes exist?
>>28585427
forgot to add, the USMC base would be based in Dubai
>>28585306
>Vulnerable
>To the Iranian Navy
>Speedboats with PKMs
>>28585108
Island to the left of the tip looks like a dolphin.
>>28585108
The peninsula is the boat and the river moves past the boat instead.
>>28587868
WHAT HAS SCIENCE DOOOONE
>>28585108
Send in the ACE before hand with a couple nukes and digging equipment, have them dig the nukes down deep enough to effectively turn the entire peninsula into a deep water channel.
Game Set Match.
>>28585393
>ship designed solely to defend against missiles defeated by a dozen missiles
why
>>28585108
Sup. No railguns, no lasers, just the Advanced Long Range Gun system that's already in production.
Requesting the picture of the crab battleship thing,
>>28588912
It is the Cybran Destroyer from Supreme Commander
>>28585393
>>28588463
is this shit a mercs 2 reference?
A couple of these would straighten that strait out.
>>28585108
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare
Sorry, Oman, you've got to take one for the team.
Just a team of DARPA engineers in a room with a box full of 1920s pop-sci magazines.
They'll figure something out.
>>28585108
>STRAIT OUTTA HORMUZ
>CRAZY MOTHERFUCKER NAMED ALI
>FROM THE GANG IRANIANS WITH ATTITUDE
>>28585108
If you insist, anon
dont need no extra points bitch nigga
>>28585191
better make sure your bombs aren't duds; all that possible unexploded ordinance in that particular area for both you and your enemies. far fetched but still
too easy.
JATO
Just strap some rockets to the sides of the ship, some facing forward, some facing up and jump over that shit.
>>28585108
> Drop a fuckton of nukes on the tip of the strait
> Craters now deeper than Challenger's Deep
> Ships can now go through like in any other river
Or more realistically, use hovercrafts to go over the strait so you don't have to do the same steering a ship would need to do. If we want to go into kinda fantasy territory, make something like the Pupa or the Shagohod from MGS, which is pretty much a hovercraft with tracks. I don't know why but it seems like a good idea.
>>28591429
That game really needs another remake and/or sequel.
>>28592159
Apparently they declined to remake it a few years back because they thought any re-imagining would ruin the classic appeal.
>>28591834
Ironsides, pls go
>>28591834
> Some facing up
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THAT'S THE WRONG DIRE-
> Captain to rocket crew, the Strait is on the nose
> Engine output at maximum, we're gonna fly a ship over those goatfuckers today
> Fly ? But captain ...
> Ship goes underground
> Yfw Underground Dreadnought Nimitz becomes a thing
Fund it Langley.
>>28588070
Did they make a Naval Ops: Warship Gunner game now?
>>28585446
>small boat is not a serious threat
You need to be at least 18 to post here
>>28585191
You dunce, youll lower the water level of the area with new space to occupy and no ship will pass through.
>>28593206
You're the idiot
>>28593232
>zomg I can't refute his point, better call him idiot
>>28585283
>A Carrier
>that close to the shore
>in that kind of a choke point
>in any way a good idea
>mfw
>>28593405
He's probably one of those trolls that keep shitting up /k/ talking about how carriers have no weaknesses, can never be sunk, are relevant, etc etc etc
>>28591834
>>28592299
Reminds me of this
>>28587868
>>28593432
I honestly can't tell anymore who is trolling when it comes to carriers.
I know so many people that think that carriers are basically a one ship wrecking crew that cannot be stopped.
>>28591683
Why is there a boat?
>>28593439
Man, I remember when sprite comics were all the rage...
>>28591683
>sharks
mother fucker. I can't even escape the bastards in the desert.
>>28585108
Hovercraft!
>>28591683
>seaplanes taking off from a swimming pool flight deck in the desert on an aircraft carrier sandcrawler
fund it
>>28585393
>>28588463
>>28590903
Aaaaiiiiieeeeeeeeee!
>>28593943
>Driver at the wheel.
>Ready for impact
>do you even GLA?
>>28588477
hurray for 500 thousand dollars per shot that might as well be a missile yay
>>28585710
You bastard, if we could have kept it a secret our enemies wouldnt even know!
WHY GOD WHY!
>>28594084
Yeah AGS is dumb as fuck. But if they actually built something useful they would stop getting paid to build useless shit.
Should've just gone with pic related.
>>28594153
Oops here's the pic. Mk 71 8" gun
![aircraft_carriers_03[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/sPF0APY.jpg "aircraft_carriers_03[1].jpg")
>>28585253
>>28593206
And that is exactly the reason small boats will get fucking rekt now whenever they approach a naval ship. And you think a carrier passing through the strait with hostile intentions is going to just let a boat come up to it?
And besides, Japs were flying armed planes into wooden carriers in WW2 and they still got the job done. Your little boat fantasies are unrealistic.
>>28591683
Holy shit....
The hangar bay has to be a giant pool, too.
>>28588463
navy fag here
Operations Specialist on an Arleigh Burke, we're designed to get hit by missiles for the carriers and launch tomahawks if we're lucky. We literally suck at everything else because our offensive weapons are garbage.
Also he's talking about fast attack crafts that are gonna shoot shit like RPG's at us up close to kill our radars and sensors. We can't defend against a swarm of those effectively at all due to lack of DAKKA
>>28594977
Holy fuck anon you can't actually be this ignorant. Carriers are DOA in any contested area.
>>28585108
Dig a canal
>>28596831
What class destroyer would you rather be on?
What changes would you make to destroyer design?
>>28593476
Must be thinking of Battlestars.
>>28598164
Great, so every sailor is going to be humping the ship's legs rather than running the damn thing.
