We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:00:24 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification First off, a little moment of Gunner Zen - this would look good sitting in the Inner Bailey of Argghhh! It would take a crane to get it there, but it would look good. Now I'm going to go all Naval. Here's one to make a Cold Warrior's trigger finger all itchy. Sailors - is this just good driving, or an oops-about-to-happen? What's up with this? Somebody didn't want to rig the breeches buoy, and preferred to step deck-to-deck? SWWBO would let me have a room like this in the basement. She likes all that brass 'n bronze! Lastly -... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:15:01 -0600 http://landships.freeservers.com/42cm_bigbertha.htm]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57244 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57244 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:24:24 -0600 Besides, I win rate of fire... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57210 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57210 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:18:49 -0600 But....I can traverse, lots of flavors of ammo...luv you long time! Besides, 'Dicke Bertha' is stuck in the mud. I'm M-O-B-I-L-E. As long as I don't throw track (sad face follows). http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57209 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57209 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:59:02 -0600 Can't move, certainly. Short tube? Sure you got your scale square there, Blackhawk? Lessee, yer fave, the M256 cannon, is 120mm x 17.32 feet plus a smidge. Dicke Bertha there is 420mm x 11 feet, he said, mixing and matching his units of measure. Girls always said shorter but thicker beats out longer but thinner... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57208 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57208 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:53:37 -0600 OK, as a fellow tanker, I'll step up: #1: can't move, short tube...use HEAT. Unless it's ours. Then just mock with extreme prejudice. #2: SABOT, SABOT, SABOT!!! Although we now have cannister... #3: Like Big E said, rubbin is racin. #4: That would look good in the garage. #5: A friggin boat. Who cares? (backs down to turret defilade...) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57207 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57207 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:23:56 -0600 #3: That's the tail end an AD-5W; VAW-11. USS Hornet,(CVA-12) 1958? At least, unless google is lying to me... :/ As to what the destroyer's doing there? Um, no so sure! Probably wondering what the hell he's doing there? Either that or they're "tradin' paint" in a flat-out dash to port. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57205 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57205 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:32:15 -0600 http://www.navy.gov.au/spc/history/ships/melbourne2.html]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57204 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57204 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:44:20 -0600 Sadly, MajMike's response parallels the response of tankers all over when it comes to target recognition. Targets? Why yes, my sight is full of targets! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57200 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57200 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:59:22 -0600 ship recognition? YES, as a matter of fact, i DO recognize them. they ARE ships! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57198 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57198 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:03:06 -0600 Mi-8! Sniffle. BTW, those things are STILL all over AFG. As for the CVL, I want to say HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) but the aircraft are all wrong (the Canadians liked US aircraft). That would leave the HMAS Melbourne or Syndey early in her career...methinks. As for the collision - well - some career openings happened that day. Don't know which one it is though. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57197 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57197 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:30:07 -0600 In picture 3 you can see where the small boy got up under the aft elevator and lifted it up perpendicular to the flight deck. Somebody is going home. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57190 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57190 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:52:04 -0600 HMAS Melborne, as Sydney evidently missed out on the angled deck. Not Bonaventure as the RCN didn't have Gannets/Venoms, neither did the Indian Navy. Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57187 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57187 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:37:38 -0600 Majestic-class aircraft carrier and although British-built, none went into RN service... They were all used by British dominions (Australia, Canada, India etc). I am going to guess that the one in the photo is HMCS Bonaventure since she tended to have her pennant number on the aft deck (which is conveniently covered with Banshees).]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57181 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57181 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:49:21 -0600 Majestic class, built by Britain during WWII but never used by the Royal Navy. It's difficult to tell which carrier is in the photo, but these six ships ended up serving in the navies of India, Australia, Canada, and Argentina. Photo #3: This is an accident waiting to happen, and two captains looking at the end of their careers. Definitely well within the normal seperation distance. Emergency Breakaway!!! ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57180 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57180 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:49:04 -0600 The carrier could be French, those look like F-8s in the front based on the intake. So that makes it the FOCH or Clemenceau. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57177 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57177 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:25:00 -0600 Ark Royal? Have you got a higher-res version, something sharp enough to ID the aircraft on deck? ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57176 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/lets_have_a_pho.html#comment-57176 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:13:49 -0600