Favorite warship - All historical periods welcome

[WelperHelper99]

Cruiser USS Long Beach for the win, had a PESA radar before it was cool, nuclear powered, kept in service for a fucking long time, and had 2 5 inch guns

 

[HarblMcDavid]

USS Laffey (DD-724)
The nutso service history alone justifies it, but the Sumners were pretty cool DDs in general so there's that too.

 

[WelperHelper99]

USS Laffey (DD-724)
The nutso service history alone justifies it, but the Sumners were pretty cool DDs in general so there's that too.

Holy shit, it's a wonder that bastard survived. The little ship that could indeed!

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

Do those old proto subs from the civil war count? Those things were nuts

 

[Day Drinking]

The USS Texas. The ship too angry to die.

I also like the history of the Hood, Bismarck, and Yamato. 3 battleships considered marvels, all relegated to doing fuck all. The Yamato was especially heinous, since they never used her because they didn't want it getting damaged or sunk by the American Navy. Scuttled to avoid propaganda. The Hood went boom while chasing the Bismarck and only 3 people survived. And the Bismarck spent it's whole life being harassed and bombarded by aircraft with it's most notable accomplishment being the Hood. Iirc, it wasn't even the Bismarck that sunk the Hood, but her escort who's name I can't remember.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Do those old proto subs from the civil war count? Those things were nuts

A ship is a ship.

The USS Texas. The ship too angry to die.

I also like the history of the Hood, Bismarck, and Yamato. 3 battleships considered marvels, all relegated to doing fuck all. The Yamato was especially heinous, since they never used her because they didn't want it getting damaged or sunk by the American Navy. Scuttled to avoid propaganda. The Hood went boom while chasing the Bismarck and only 3 people survived. And the Bismarck spent it's whole life being harassed and bombarded by aircraft with it's most notable accomplishment being the Hood. Iirc, it wasn't even the Bismarck that sunk the Hood, but her escort who's name I can't remember.

Texas, may she never get scrapped, even if she turns into a rust bucket, they literally flooded some of the compartments to extend the range of the guns in a battle, absolutely based.

 

[draggs]

USS Enterprise (CV-6)

Duh

 

[Admiral Throbnelius]

Not sure if this counts because it was only a concept that was pitched during WWII, but I think the aircraft carrier Project Habakkuk is at the very least a cool concept for a warship. It would've had a hull made out of ice.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

The space battleship yamato, obviously

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

SMS Scharnhorst

 

[WelperHelper99]

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SMS Scharnhorst

The German battleship that actually did shit, very nice, played it in world of warships a bit, very fun

I guess another one for me is the Ticonderoga Class Cruisers:


122 VLS cells, first AEIGS ship, limited stealth, PHALANX GUNS, 2 mk 45 cannons, and the fact that the navy keeps wanting to retire them but they keep surviving.

 

[The Foxtrot]

For me, it's a cross between my namesake and the Kirov-class Battlecruisers.

Pyotr Velikiy seen here.

 

[WelperHelper99]

For me, it's a cross between my namesake and the Kirov-class Battlecruisers.
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Pyotr Velikiy seen here.

Both are cool ruskie ships, but the Kirov takes it for me. So much muscle, so much firepower, literally called the Iowas out of mothballs because of the amount of fuck you energy it packed

 

[The Foxtrot]

Both are cool ruskie ships, but the Kirov takes it for me. So much muscle, so much firepower, literally called the Iowas out of mothballs because of the amount of fuck you energy it packed

Exactly. If any ship could actually render the CVN "obsolete", or at the least challenge it, it'd be the Kirov and his brothers. A shame that no other nation took up the concept, and that most of the Kirovs are going to be scrapped for lack of maintenance.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Exactly. If any ship could actually render the CVN "obsolete", or at the least challenge it, it'd be the Kirov and his brothers. A shame that no other nation took up the concept, and that most of the Kirovs are going to be scrapped for lack of maintenance.

That's the sad thing about the kirovs, the fall of the Union combined with the need to maintain all that equipment, including nuclear reactors, practically have killed them. Sad

 

[The Foxtrot]

That's the sad thing about the kirovs, the fall of the Union combined with the need to maintain all that equipment, including nuclear reactors, practically have killed them. Sad

Very true. That being said, Soviet naval doctrine was very different from the USA, and not enough people seem to get that.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Very true. That being said, Soviet naval doctrine was very different from the USA, and not enough people seem to get that.

Soviet doctrine focused way less on aircraft carriers and way more on air defense and anti ship missiles. It's why they made so many giants. That and the fact they had less warm water ports to defend. They could lay mines and use the enemy's numbers against them.