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USS APS??
« on: October 05, 2011, 02:33:42 PM »
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2011, 04:03:10 PM »
Is a cutter around the size of a corvette?  I assume it is smaller than a frigate.
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2011, 04:03:34 PM »
For that price, it at least ought to come with a 5 inch gun (not de-milled either) and I see nothing of the sort.

From the looks of that boat, I'm guessing it has provisions for not much more than pintle mount M2 .50BMG's etc.  =|
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2011, 04:13:50 PM »
someone call Al Gore right now:

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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2011, 05:16:42 PM »
Man, no wonder it had such a large crew for the displacement. WWII manual technology throughout.  None of this control by wire or jet turbine engines here.
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2011, 05:25:47 PM »
whose got an amex black card for  gas diesel?  95 k gallons?
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2011, 05:30:07 PM »
Yep, needs a deck gun or two.
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2011, 07:36:57 PM »
Here is one good article about the Achushnet and where she has served.  The Pendleton disaster is not well known outside of the Coast Guard but a few legends were made that day.  (Google BM1 Bernie Webber to learn more about that)

http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/remembering-uscgc-acushnet/

Here are some specs for the boat.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/wmec-213-specs.htm

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/wmec-213.htm
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2011, 07:56:26 PM »
I'd love a big boat like that if I was a mega billiozaire but it's chock full of antiquated tech.
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2011, 06:15:43 PM »
I think we have enough tech guys here to do a suitable refit.

I'll handle the galley/bar.
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2011, 06:34:57 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on October 05, 2011, 05:30:07 PM
Yep, needs a deck gun or two.
57mm Bofors guns would do nicely, yes? >:D
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2011, 06:49:06 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on October 05, 2011, 05:30:07 PM
Yep, needs a deck gun or two.

We don't need no steenkin' deck gun.....we have Physics and Rocketman....




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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2011, 06:54:44 PM »
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so you're saying we'll have a railgun and an MLRS on deck?  SWEEET......

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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2011, 06:57:21 PM »
Quote from: AmbulanceDriver on October 06, 2011, 06:54:44 PM
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so you're saying we'll have a railgun and an MLRS on deck?  SWEEET......

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....and an underwater launch bay for the sharks with laser beams.....  :cool:
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2011, 06:59:42 PM »
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....and an underwater launch bay for the sharks with laser beams.....  :cool:

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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2011, 08:12:48 PM »
I'd also want a helicopter, but our source for getting one wholesale is no longer there.  Although with Rocketman, Nick, Physics and the Rev aborad, well, let just say I want some really good sunglasses and some sunscreen in SPF 10,000,000,000.

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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #16 on: October 06, 2011, 10:45:59 PM »
Quote from: dm1333 on October 05, 2011, 07:36:57 PM
Here is one good article about the Achushnet and where she has served.  The Pendleton disaster is not well known outside of the Coast Guard but a few legends were made that day.  (Google BM1 Bernie Webber to learn more about that)

http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/remembering-uscgc-acushnet/

"Sadly, it was time for the Coast Guard’s oldest ship to go."

Uh...wouldn't that be USCGC Eagle, by eight years?  (Or by four months if you only count from the US commissioning.)
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2011, 10:53:10 PM »
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #18 on: October 07, 2011, 08:55:25 AM »
The first beam suppresses the charge on the electron.

The second beam suppresses the charge of the proton...
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #19 on: October 07, 2011, 10:18:44 AM »
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The first beam suppresses the charge on the electron.

The second beam suppresses the charge of the proton...

3.  Profit!
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« Reply #20 on: October 07, 2011, 10:32:34 AM »
Be upwind though. Lots of monatomic dust will be floating about.
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« Reply #21 on: October 07, 2011, 11:15:29 AM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on October 07, 2011, 08:55:25 AM
The first beam suppresses the charge on the electron.

The second beam suppresses the charge of the proton...

The third beam gets really confused trying to figure out what to do with the neutron.
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #22 on: October 07, 2011, 11:22:43 AM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on October 07, 2011, 11:15:29 AM
The third beam gets really confused trying to figure out what to do with the neutron.

There is no third beam in a slaver disintegrator.

(Which is a kinda-sorta ironic name. Considering pirates sometimes do "slaving"...)
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #23 on: October 07, 2011, 02:53:05 PM »
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Uh...wouldn't that be USCGC Eagle, by eight years?  (Or by four months if you only count from the US commissioning.)

If the Eagle is in service as opposed to commissioned it wouldn't be the oldest cutter.  That may or may not apply here.  The 87' patrol boats that have enlisted OIC's are in service instead of commissioned.  Rumor has it the person who won the bid, at about $600,000, doesn't have the money for fuel to take it to where ever he was planning on taking it.  So he put it back up for sale (this is the eBay ad in this thread) so maybe you guys can pick her up pretty cheap.  As far as old tech goes a lot of the stuff on board is relatively up to date.  The thing I would worry most about are the reduction gears. 

I also would NOT touch a 378 with a 10 foot pole if you guys think one of those would be good for pirate hunting.  Wafer thin hull plating and plenty of reduction gear problems!
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« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2011, 03:24:09 PM »
Quote from: dm1333 on October 07, 2011, 02:53:05 PM
If the Eagle is in service as opposed to commissioned it wouldn't be the oldest cutter.

At least one source lists her as "current, active commission," same as the Constitution.

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Rumor has it the person who won the bid, at about $600,000, doesn't have the money for fuel to take it to where ever he was planning on taking it.

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