well with all that fur...

Don’t forget what really made the deception work was the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and 13th MEU floating offshore on just about every working LPH and LHA etc available. Because they were trained, manned, equipped, and capable of forcible entry they provided the credible threat that forced Saddam to waste…

Whoops, wrong button.

I spent over a month trying to navigate a ship around the giant patches of oil off of the Kuwaiti coastline during this event. It was tense, insofar as we were carrying explosives, and sucking the crude oil into the engine cooling system would have been “bad”.

Saddam’s first big mistake was, obviously, invading Kuwait. His second big mistake was not invading Saudi Arabia. Maybe his army wasn’t up for it, but he could have at least denied it to the U.S. as a secure staging area in the early days of the conflict. Sitting there for five months with all of his guns pointing in…

The whole benefit of a railgun is that a much smaller (less expensive) ship can fire a munition with as much energy as a 16" naval gun.

The main reason Battleships got so big was the need for larger and larger vessels to house larger and larger guns If the current railgun designs work as reported, each 16" gun can be…

I don’t know, a marine in a bronco calling in 16 inch rounds from the big Mo sounds pretty damn dangerous.

But that still wouldn’t be as cool as 747 cruise missile carrier:

and a big ass flight deck.

I’m beginning to think Kelsey Grammer is a bit of an asshole.

Those guns aren’t going to be very scary, the ship would be sunk long before it got in range. They have basically no anti-sub defense, and minimal air defense (Phalanx system and men with Stinger missiles last time around). To ever use them against a near-peer, you’d need to defend it like a carrier, at which point…

“I miss the Bay Area, but not the people.” said literally everyone who’s been to the Bay Area.

Well seriously look what happened when the military wanted to hang out in Texas this summer. Our nutjob governor had to deploy the National Guard to keep them from conquering us. Why would the Navy want to pay a visit?

So this is where we keep our nuclear wessles. .

It wasn’t as bad back then. Now it’s transplants hippie NIMBY’s that bitch. I miss the Bay Area, but not the people.

Not launching aircraft, but Constellation was the last carrier built at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. It sort of fit under the Brooklyn Bridge:

I’ve always wanted to be on a sailboat between Fort Mason and Alcatraz for Fleet Week. There’s probably a 1% chance of an explosive death, but wow.

R Kelly is a delusional scumbag. He is a child molester, and he doesn’t see his kids because he does not want to (according to his ex-wife Andrea per her Hollywood Exes scenes). She had to fight with him to support them financially and was always fighting him to actually BE THERE to support their kids with monumental…

Which is why, when my kids were born, I was Bill Cosby in the house.