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Blefg kill it with fire

"These guns go to 6"

Servicemen in general will stop at nothing to find ways to get drunk. The prevalence of sailors drinking torpedo propellant caused the US navy to switch the denaturing agent for ethanol away from methanol. Despite the sailor's best efforts, they sometimes failed to separate out the methanol, which causes blindness and a bunch of other nasty things if consumed. More than a few sailors lost their sight because of this, so the denaturing agent was switched to one that causes puking instead.

I would hazard that Kancolle would implement the naval version first, which would be the PBJ-1H with the 75mm cannon.

The preliminary Iowa lines have been uploaded and I think they are bloody awful, but then again, I'm not the target audience.

#Nipponmansburden Forced assimilation of a culture is generally frowned upon, and it's usually carried out in a not so pleasant way, which is something the Koreans and Native Americans can attest to. The rest of the world won't take too kindly to Japan engaging in "Cultual Imperialism" The problem here is that the gate people don't a choice of whose culture they would like to adopt, since they only have large scale contact with the Japanese. They don't get the choice of whose blue jeans to wear and pop music to listen to. Exclusion extraction rights are also very problematic. Historically those have been riddled with abuse and corruption, as well as heavy external influence to place the welfare of the extraction company over that of the locals. I don't think there's a single case where a foreign power backed extraction economy has worked out well. All these arguments have been used to justify OTL Imperialism, which is what makes Gate a great example of neo-Imperialism work.

I do realize that, but I also know that JSDF reservists get very few days of training and service a year, and if he has a desk job in the reserves, even less. If the JSDF patterned it's training program off the US army training program (and why wouldn't they), you don't actually learn how to be an infantrymen until you've been assigned the infantry specialization. Before that, training is mostly physical fitness and how to be a soldier. An accountant or truck driver in the US army doesn't learn all that much about squad tactics. They qualified with their rifles, but they aren't required to have much range time or go on maneuver drills.

He's a reservist with a desk job, was never active duty in the JSDF. But enough about that necro. Morgane hasn't been posting her election series here, so As usual, my school found itself in the spotlight in a rather uncomfortable way this week, in a pseudo-Trump related manner. If Morgane still reads these forums, I would like to ask why the series focus on Trump to such an extent.

Yuudachi is already a gundam reference, so it's not a mere suspicion.

I seem to recall reading 118 somewhere, let me go check sources again.

This bothers me more that it should Warships girls HMS Belfast, overall not a bad design but... Belfast is a city in Northern Ireland Playing a bagpipe Wearing Tartan And a Sporran This is as egregious as having USS Boston wearing a Yankees hat and talking like Joe Pesci because they are both cities in the north. But then again, how many people in it's intended playerbase knows the difference between Scotland and Ireland.

It's deleted, but he said something along the lines of "I'll never forgive Sealion" Never forgive is apparently a serious phrase in Japan. The other thing is that he deleted the post very quickly, and rumors say that Tanaka made him do it. This could mean Sealion is coming to Kancolle one day.

The natural frequency of a warship is one of those things that you just can't calculate with good accuracy, it's just too complicated of a system. If that natural frequency happened to be at or near the RPM of the propellers, then that ship is going to have vibration problems. The reason North Carolina is nicknamed "showboat" is because after completion, her vibration problems were so bad the Navy considered her unfit for combat. She took frequent trips into New York harbor to test if changes solved the problem.\ The "solution" that worked us differing number of propeller blades on the inner/outer shafts.

Also apparently all the new fast battleships had vibration problems of various severity. North Carolina being the worst, then Iowa, then South Dakota. I haven't read any documents on vibration on fast battleships in other nation's service, so I can't compared it to anything. Needless to say energy spent waggling the stern back and forth is energy spent not pushing water backwards.

.50 resistance isn't very surprising considering .50's are basically sparklers in WT. You can pump 100 .50's into a FW-190 for no damage unless you set him on fire. The only .50's that do the job well is the gunpod on F-82. I've had zero problems killing H8K with anything that has hispanos or mine shells. I rate it even easier than killing B-17's because they are even bigger and slower.