But hey–what are we gonna use this for? A Privateer? ARRGH!
If so, the atomic plie is out. No fuel source. ARRGH!
But diesel is common. ARRGH!
And we should be looking at Warsaw Pact stuff. It’s as common as dirt, & we can sell our plunder to Castro-Boy, & resupply in Cuban ports. Not unlike the pirates of the 17th century, that operated out of doomed Tortuga, not swollowed by the sea for it’s sins. ARRGH!
PS–Why mine layers? If we use smaller mines, we can just heave them over the stern. And, why do we need to waste the space in the first place? ARRGH!
And anybody who doesn’t like sayin’ “ARRGH!” has no business piratin’. ARRGH!
Still say we should use an atomic pile. Remember,this is going to be one big fraggin’ ship. We’re gonna raid “Honda” container ships and sell the Accords to Cuba…
Also, If we have railguns, we can use it to take over a small tropical island, and declare ourselves the rulling Junta.
Which reminds me, there’s no opposition to the attack 'copters, are there?
we have the ultimate in hull, engine, rocketry, spikes, paint job, audio system and bottle openers, but the biggest gun we can manage is a piddly-ass 30 mm Phalanx ?
We need us some guns! Big, badass, turning-with-a-menacing-purr triple-turreted battlecruiser guns. I’d say one triple-turret fore and one aft, making for six guns in all. After all, without guns, how are we going to use all the cool vocab such as “broadsides” and “crossing the T” ?
Psshaw. I work at a place that builds US nuclear subs, I can probably get a new GE reactor for you wholesale (attn: security types at work, I’m just f—ing kidding!).
And for you diesel types, don’t forget, even the Navy’s nuke vessels still have behemoth diesel engines on board (just in case).
Now we’re talking, by God! I want a full complement of 16" rifled guns! We’re talking projectiles that weigh as much as a small car! We’ll have to have our crews duck and cover when they’re fired, or risk internal damage.
How 'bought the old 16-inchers from the Iowa class battleships? Only bigger naval guns I know of are on the bottom of the Pacific somewhere. Plus, there’s a bunch of them just sitting in Philly, wating for a bunch of scurvy dogs like us to pick 'em up.
Well they just retired the battleship New Jersey over by Philadelphia, it has a really nice rack of turrets with 16 inch cannons, I say we grab those. Some laser guided rockets would be nice also.
The 2 turrets of proposed Railguns will be more than enough. They will launch a shell with such velocity that it’ll have the effect of a 18" gun!!!
Sides, 16" rifled guns weigh too much. Gotta make sure we have room for the tv room. And “Star Trek” style quarters.
of course, we’ll have a hold for the prisoners. Let’s start with the whalehunters, moving on to a “war” on drug-runners in the Caribbean (where we will confiscate the drugs)
Do not forget we need a catapult. What is that you say, we already have enough high tech weapons to lay waste to most of the civilized world (France is not included, I just got a fax from france saying that they have already surrendered) why do we need a catapult? We need it to launch our empty kegs of beer!
bug, they are called “heads”. Piss over the side. Downwind. Heads take up valuable ammo space. And beer space. There WILL be booze aboard!
Attack helos, maybe six Cobras, a handful of Apaches, and two dozen Hinds (I hear the are on sale).
DEFINITELY the Big 16 Inchers. In case we decide to not like some random mountaintop. Rail Guns are nice. But the concept of tossing Volkswagens makes me smile.
Might I be the first to suggest the name SS Cecil Adams? Or perhaps, if Cecil Adams is less than enthusiastic about lending his name to piracy, the more biblical SS Scourge of the Ignorant?
I also like the VSV (Very Slender Vessel) designs. Faster than a scalded cat. But those will be difficult to mount 16 inch guns on, so out of the question. Everyone knows that the bigger your gun is, the bigger your… ummm Well, anyway, big guns are fun to shoot.
