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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #25 on: February 04, 2015, 12:22:41 AM »
I always figured something like this would be a good platform to start with.  http://www.wally.com/wally-118/
No one ever said that you have to live like a savage while on a hunt.
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #26 on: February 04, 2015, 10:47:25 AM »
Quote from: Calumus on February 04, 2015, 12:22:41 AM
I always figured something like this would be a good platform to start with.  http://www.wally.com/wally-118/
No one ever said that you have to live like a savage while on a hunt.

No Gunz and only a 300nm range, which might work if we're hunting the pirates of the Caribbean.  ;)
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #27 on: February 04, 2015, 10:54:14 AM »
Quote from: scout26 on February 04, 2015, 10:47:25 AM
No Gunz and only a 300nm range, which might work if we're hunting the pirates of the Caribbean.  ;)

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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #28 on: February 04, 2015, 11:10:23 AM »
Quote from: Calumus on February 04, 2015, 12:22:41 AM
I always figured something like this would be a good platform to start with.  http://www.wally.com/wally-118/
No one ever said that you have to live like a savage while on a hunt.
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Many modern luxury yachts have been retrofitted off of military patrol type platforms.

http://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/the-register/top-20-expedition-yachts/

6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20

What struck me about one of the custom ones was that it has it's own landing craft for putting the owner's 4x4 ashore.
Hhhmmmm.... >:D

Oh and there is just something sexy about old ships and their lines
http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1943/Custom-Expedition-Explorer-Vessel-2165380/Indonesia#.VNJDqrktHcc
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2015, 11:40:29 AM »
Quote from: scout26 on February 03, 2015, 09:10:55 PM
although if we did get helo and pilot, then we need folks to maintain it, get parts for it.

Put a diesel engine in it and make Boomhauer do the maintenance.
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #30 on: February 04, 2015, 01:36:12 PM »
It may be good for pirate hunting, but that ship is fugly.
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #31 on: February 04, 2015, 03:16:32 PM »
Maybe I'm just sadistic, but I'd prefer to just be able to launch a fleet of these equipped with various attachments to quietly hole their boats miles from shore.
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #32 on: February 04, 2015, 04:14:54 PM »
I wonder....the average icebreaker, how bad would that probably smash up the types of boats the Somali pirates like to use for motherships..... >:D
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #33 on: February 04, 2015, 04:48:34 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on February 03, 2015, 05:51:12 PM
. . . And AJ, there's a reason mortars are NOT used on surface ships. 
I thought it's because they were exclusive to the submarine service?
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #34 on: February 04, 2015, 07:27:56 PM »
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #35 on: February 04, 2015, 07:48:26 PM »
Quote from: jamisjockey on February 04, 2015, 04:14:54 PM
I wonder....the average icebreaker, how bad would that probably smash up the types of boats the Somali pirates like to use for motherships..... >:D

You don't really want to keep ramming a ship even with an ice breaker.  Ice breakers are designed to ride up on top of the ice and break it.  You would have to make modifications to the bow for ramming.  You'd be better off designing a ship, from the get go, to ram stuff.  Sorry to be a wet blanket!
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #36 on: February 04, 2015, 11:05:29 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on February 03, 2015, 11:37:57 PM
Now that's more like it. I approve.

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Random buttons might be re-labelled as "börkity börk".
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #37 on: February 05, 2015, 12:09:35 AM »
Quote from: HankB on February 04, 2015, 04:48:34 PM
I thought it's because they were exclusive to the submarine service?

I can neither confirm or deny the presence of tacticool nookyaloor mortars on US Navy submarines.
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #38 on: February 05, 2015, 11:23:46 AM »
Quote from: dm1333 on February 04, 2015, 07:48:26 PM
You don't really want to keep ramming a ship even with an ice breaker.  Ice breakers are designed to ride up on top of the ice and break it.

And that wouldn't work why?  I doubt it's going to get stuck high centered on this:
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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #39 on: February 05, 2015, 04:09:40 PM »
Quote from: Viking on February 04, 2015, 11:05:29 PM
Random buttons might be re-labelled as "börkity börk".

And some guy with a heavy accent standing there saying "Go ahead and push it.  I dare you....Borkity-bork.."

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Re: The APS pirate hunting vessel hath arrived
« Reply #40 on: February 05, 2015, 05:32:06 PM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on February 05, 2015, 11:23:46 AM
And that wouldn't work why?  I doubt it's going to get stuck high centered on this:


It wont get high centered on something like that.  It will screw up the bow of the ship though.  At about 1:15 in the video is a good shot of an ice breaker at work and you can see why the bow would get messed up by repeatedly ramming another ship.  If I was going to build a ship to ram stuff it would have an actual ram.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6OHHGrVM3g


wiki article with some good pictures of rams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_ram


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