I love how unlike the other Abyssals that get purified by food from their native land, SoDak is purified by being able to brawl to her heart's content, and Kirishima found a new sister. In a sense it's a very heart-warming story.
Ugh, I really hate it when Japanese writers always poise the ship prefix in weird places. I mean "USS Battleship South Dakota"?! That makes my eyes water!
I love how unlike the other Abyssals that get purified by food from their native land, SoDak is purified by being able to brawl to her heart's content, and Kirishima found a new sister. In a sense it's a very heart-warming story.
now I wonder how Kirishima will react when Washington got implemented?
Probably still being chased by the lobster to this day.
Or she may just be taking it for a walk. They might have adopted it, like Gangut and Tashkent did with Wojtek. Having a giant lobster with 16" guns could be handy in a fight!
So I've been wrapping my head around how ship armor and tank armor perform differently. That is apparently ship armor can be made to be all but invulnerable to shells below a certain caliber, but tank armor not so much. Things like bouncing or shattering shells is possible with ship armor, but not really something worth considering with tank armor.
It's now occurred to me that the expectations of a shell defeating a ship's armor is radically different from that of a shell defeating that of a tank. Simply put it's not enough to defeat a ship's armor. Warships are not compact by design. They're big and redundant with lots of empty space. Simply pouring alot of energy through a small breach isn't going to inconvenience them very much.
Tanks are the complete opposite of that. They're small, extremely compact. Threading a tiny bit of superheated copper past the armor layer will probably mission kill it, if not everyone inside. No one really thinks that much about shell spawling injuring or even killing crew men inside of the compartments of ships, but for a tank, that's something it can't afford to have happen.
So I've been wrapping my head around how ship armor and tank armor perform differently. That is apparently ship armor can be made to be all but invulnerable to shells below a certain caliber, but tank armor not so much. Things like bouncing or shattering shells is possible with ship armor, but not really something worth considering with tank armor.
It's now occurred to me that the expectations of a shell defeating a ship's armor is radically different from that of a shell defeating that of a tank. Simply put it's not enough to defeat a ship's armor. Warships are not compact by design. They're big and redundant with lots of empty space. Simply pouring alot of energy through a small breach isn't going to inconvenience them very much.
Tanks are the complete opposite of that. They're small, extremely compact. Threading a tiny bit of superheated copper past the armor layer will probably mission kill it, if not everyone inside. No one really thinks that much about shell spawling injuring or even killing crew men inside of the compartments of ships, but for a tank, that's something it can't afford to have happen.
It's why sloped armor is such a big concern for tanks. You want your angle of deflection to be as high as possible so that if you get hit the bullet will "veer" off, avoiding substantial damage.
It's why sloped armor is such a big concern for tanks. You want your angle of deflection to be as high as possible so that if you get hit the bullet will "veer" off, avoiding substantial damage.
Ships also used sloped or inclined armor tho, like for example SoDak.
Kasuga Maru - Baked Potato Ark Royal - Bismarck Love Shin'you - Bratkartoffeln (Clockwork Orange) Maestrale - Spaghetti (You killed my friend!) Nelson - British Cooking Nisshin - Thin Books Colorado - 'MURICAN feast Janus - Fish and Chips Houston - Butterbeer (and full-frontal nudity) Atlanta - Kentucky's Fried Chicken (with a cement skirt as a shakedown) Usugumo - Baked Potato with butter (held as a POW with that as only food) I-47 - Sasebo Burger (wrong order) South Dakota - Punch Up with Kirishima
With the drinking of your cups, you shall become half-sworn brothers.From this day forward, you shall help each other in the fires of war, engage in friendly rivalry and completely devote yourselves to the path of the shipgirl.Now we can fight together, as friends!yourself...Long time, no see, Kirishima!!You're not bad...So this is a Japanese-style welcoming party, is it!As friends...!おお!素敵!Puff...You're pretty... strong...Huff...After punching one another to our hearts' content... it's like the weight's gone from my shoulders...Heheh...I feel so... refreshed...サウス・ダコタ級戦艦、USS戦艦サウス・ダコタだ！
I am USS Battleship South Dakota, the South Dakota class!
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