Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Been on the M2/M3 Brad for years, right XBradTC? As well as a Marine LAV. Gotta like firepower, on land or sea. Still, I am partial to a 120mm HEAT coming out of a smoothbore. An APFSDS will give you sparks but a HEAT will toss a turret in the air. No comments from Lex about secondaries, please.
Ok, Dust. I grok the first “AP,” and the last “DS” (I think), but whats that “FS” in the middle?
Fin Stabilized. AKA LRP or Long Rod Penetrator. Also called BAD by some. (Big A##ed Dart)
Silver bullet?
I wonder if they intended to hit that SEPTAR – which looks likes it’s sinking in the last few frames. Way back in time my last Navy assignment was a detachment OinC with Fleet Composite Squadron 6 in Norfolk. I was on the aviation target side but the squadron also had a boat detachment that operated SEPTARs. For gunnery practice the mounts would have a few mils offset cranked in so as to not actually hit the somewhat expensive remote control speedboat. But I heard tales of how every once in a while a fleet gunnery exercise would go bust because somebody sunk the target.
Those boats could scream too. The 18 footers had a Chrysler 318 with a stern drive and could hit about 65. The big boats (35 foot, I think?) could take up to 4 big block Chevy engines driving straight shaft drives. The boat det guys seemed to enjoy their jobs.
George V.
It takes away all the fun in being a Somali Pirate