Yeah, the drones are basically maneuvering sea mines now. And many of long term loitering. Going to be weird.
Highschool fleet be like
On the horizon? How the hell is my twelve-pounder going to reach there? We need to get yardarm-to-yardarm with the dogs! Then we can deploy our real smashers, the 18 pounder carronades
I wish people had a perverse love of main battleships like they do the other ancient shit technology like the A10.
Keep on spending huge amounts of cash because big guns cool!
Needs more Dakka
I wish people had a perverse love of main battleships
You ever seen Drachinifel's channel on YouTube? He's into the gun-era stuff, which overlapped a lot with the British Empire's era.
Ever played the Rule the Waves video game series?
Great creator. You'll learn fucking everything about a ship from the logistics to the operational issues.
Wish it scratched my brain but it puts me to sleep 😞
Damn, people really don't? I've always been a sucker for ever increasingly ridiculously large GUN.
Got a problem? Just yeet a fucking dog sized hunk of metal at it at as close to the speed of sound as we can get it. You don't have a problem anymore.
yeet a fucking dog sized
I prefer 'a fully loaded volkswagen mass of shrapnel and high explosives' but yeah, the principle stands.
Turn the guns into drone launchers? Many thing go in big tube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_naval_battles
Most recent three entries as an example:
- August 21, 2024: 21 August - In Red Sea, the Greek flagged tanker Sounion was attacked and exchanged gunfire with two Houthi manned fast attack craft. The Sounion was then hit by three projectiles and set afire before being abandoned by its crew.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_the_Sounion
Two Houthi fast attack craft engaged in a firefight with the Sounion armed guards before three projectiles struck the tanker.
Sounds like that may have been small arms, if armed guards were involved. There was a subsequent boarding action.
- 15 July, 2024 - In the Red Sea, the Panamaninan flagged tanker Bentley-I is unsuccessfully attacked by a Houthi sea drone before engaging in a gun battle with two Houthi manned fast attack craft, which are driven off.[29]
I assume that the sea drone attempted to ram. The attack craft were using guns.
- 5 March, 2024 – Sinking of the Sergey Kotov – Russian Bykov-class patrol ship, RFS Sergey Kotov is attacked and sunk by Ukrainian sea drones in the Kerch Strait.[28]
Probably ramming.
We may, surprisingly-enough, be at more of a knife-fight range than we have for a long time in naval combat, though I suppose one could argue that maybe USVs should be thought of as more like long-range torpedoes or something than watercraft.
What's sugma
Sugma balls! Got em!
I must upvote Italian Regia Marina battleships unconditionally
