• @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      Don’t think they’re including shuttlecraft. It’s a bit hard to read but I can’t see the Cerritos’ Death Valley scanning through that area of the alphabet. I do note that Discovery is there in both original and -A format, which might be contentious since the ship is its own refit.

        • QuinceDaPence
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          68 months ago

          They’re vessels but I don’t think they’d qualify as ships.

          If I ask you to name every ship in the Navy I do not want RHIBs, dinghys, tenders, lifeboats or rafts included, but if I ask for every vessel, then if the Navy owns a kayak I want it listed.

          • Flying Squid
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            58 months ago

            They have weapons, they can travel at warp. They’re just smaller than the big ships.

            • QuinceDaPence
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              68 months ago

              I can shoot a pistol from a jet-ski and go faster than an aircraft carrier. Is that a ship?

              • @[email protected]
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                18 months ago

                You aren’t outrunning an aircraft carrier, those behemoths can outrun most of their escorts if they want

                • QuinceDaPence
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                  Planing vs displacement.

                  An aircraft carrier is limited by its hull speed to about 45 pretty much no matter how much power you give it.

                  A slow jetski will do 65. I’ve heen on ones that would do that with the “slow” key where supposedly the fast key would let you do 85-90.

                  I’ve also been on a tri-tune that did 75.

                  An aircraft carrier is about the fastest displacement vessel but when you move into planing hulls its a different ball game.

            • @[email protected]
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              18 months ago

              They don’t have sleeping quarters. Being able to house the crew is the bare minimum I expect from something canned a ship.

        • @mindbleach
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          8 months ago

          Ships launch other craft.

          Otherwise it’s a boat.

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        The Discovery shouldn’t be in Tendi’s lost at all, considering its very existence was redacted.

    • @mindbleach
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      28 months ago

      Remembered the Elmer Fudd, though.