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So, I've had enough of the confected smog of this place. I'm now seeking bluer skies. Look me up upon your own ascension!

@SgmNaval Sadly I don't think it is real. If such a superb picture existed we would have seen it long ago. Glad to be wrong, but I suspect not...

@AlexLuck9 People talk about Australia's "boutique" defence force. This would make it entirely "artisanal".

This is deeply unserious policy planning and an indictment how Australia remains largely lost at sea (no pun intended) on substantial political defence expertise. abc.net.au/news/2026-04-2…

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A fine ship, remembered today in Exeter Guildhall. A quarter of her ship’s company died in Japanese captivity.

@NavyLookout With how many operational frigates and destroyers again?

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@SDA_mod @QinetiQ Interesting looking submarines. An indication of their future perhaps?

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@IanPsDarkCorner @Drachinifel @AC_NavalHistory @mercoglianos The proof, as they say, will be in the pudding ...

@ArmouredCarrier @Drachinifel @AC_NavalHistory @mercoglianos The Earl Grey will be white and insipid? The cream will be on top of the jam? The crew will all quit and the Navy will have to replace them all with AI driven androids?

US Navy considering super-sized "mixmaster" to replace ship galleys. Cooker delivers straight from the freeze-dried racks to a vending machine... Ultimate efficiency. Human fuel. What could possibly go wrong? @Drachinifel @AC_NavalHistory @mercoglianos maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-na…

The heart of the new US Navy "Golden Fleet" will be "cool looking" new "battleships". Some design work has been done on this before. Can it be upgraded with a towed sonar array, ICBM bays and a drone pad? @AC_NavalHistory @Drachinifel @mercoglianos youtube.com/watch?v=UX5dFB…

@navalnewscom @WeAreHII So, reworking "proven designs" ... When has that ever gone wrong?

[Breaking] @WeAreHII has been selected by the U.S. Navy to design and build the future small surface combatant (SSC) ship, leveraging the proven design of the Ingalls-built Legend-class national security cutter (NSC) 🇺🇸 navalnews.com/naval-news/202…

@airmainengineer Here's one you may be interested in: The RAF training film for paint crews ... youtu.be/ypO2Obz7KnQ

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@AC_NavalHistory @NAVSEA Are these built to USN damage control standards? Will the interior need to undergo the domino-effect redesign process to accommodate all the extra fire pressure line loops etc?

The answer is no @NAVSEA will not be able to resist making those changes, especially as the cancelling of the 11th & 12th coast guard vessels make this a pretty much cold production line, so they'll have all the time needed to restart it to "fix it"...

@NavyLookout I thought these ships were supposed to replace the Albions as troop deployment ships? Or can they do both. At the same time?

Carrier Strike – just how full is Full Operating Capability? navylookout.com/carrier-strike…

@heatloss1986 It's a tough equation. Larger hulls may be more efficient and capable. But you inevitably get less of them. Force presence has a value of its own. Something the Commonwealth struggled with in the Arctic, North & South Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, South & North Pacific

I think there's value in a large surface combatant, but a lot of the roles of the battleship (shore bombardment, air defense, etc) have been organically filled by other fleet elements such as DDGs as new capabilities have become available.

It's unfortunate that he doesn't see the errors here, given he himself has talked around the issue in some of his videos. Let's take the Des Moines class CAs for example. Their greatest strength in survivability was their increased compartmentalization and redundancy.

@DrydockDreams Beautiful

The skies over Midway are getting busy, as new objects are being integrated daily. We are also setting up the airfield & the hydrobase to support the dozens of USN, USMC & USAAF aircraft present during the battle. Next stop: the Kido Butai! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

@MandoWookie @Drachinifel How many shots were needed to achieve something? What did it take to make it safe enough for a battleship to get within 40km to use their guns?

@ArmouredCarrier @Drachinifel 'Not lots of ammunition' wut. No, seriously, wut? They carried literal TONS of ammunition, hell, late in 1945 each battleship had probably more AA strapped to it than a dozen destroyers. As for the big guns, it took 2 straight days of shore bombardment before magazine's emptied.

Since I cover battleships, I might as well put my view in on the 'modern battleship' argument. Does a battleship have a role in the modern naval environment? I would argue a qualified yes. A battleship primarily armed with guns and 12-16" of armour...

@Trexxl @MandoWookie @Drachinifel But how many shots were needed to achieve anything? I found a summary of a US and UK combined battleship bombardment force of the Japanese mainland once. I'll have to try and find where I put it ...

@MandoWookie @ArmouredCarrier @Drachinifel The primary reason for the size of battleships was the size and number of guns they had to carry, which in turn created a lot of space for ammunition. No-one was designing Yamato size ships and fitting them with 12” guns but absolutely massive magazines.