And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
1944? Or maybe post-war. Based on the P-51Ds and the paint scheme. When she went to the Pacific, she was painted very dark blue (almost black) that she sports today.
The last Dreadnought class battleship - guess she and the San Jacinto Monument survived Harvey OK. The technology difference between the 1836 battle at that spot and the launch of the Texas in 1912 is pretty amazing, isn't it? I remember as a kid climbing to the top of the monument and looking down on the Texas, the first battleship I had seen in person - I was impressed!
DD1000 class side armor is about 150 Tomahawk missiles and 50 Seasparrows. when they explode from a direct gunfire hit the detonation should deflect the incoming round to less critical areas like the Chiefs Mess area.
1944? Or maybe post-war. Based on the P-51Ds and the paint scheme. When she went to the Pacific, she was painted very dark blue (almost black) that she sports today.
ReplyDeleteThe last Dreadnought class battleship - guess she and the San Jacinto Monument survived Harvey OK. The technology difference between the 1836 battle at that spot and the launch of the Texas in 1912 is pretty amazing, isn't it? I remember as a kid climbing to the top of the monument and looking down on the Texas, the first battleship I had seen in person - I was impressed!
ReplyDeleteI would say post war. The P-51's markings are Texas Air National Guard.
ReplyDeleteWhat marvellous thick armor those battleships had!
ReplyDeleteI hope the new craft, the "modern" warships that don't look like they could withstand a Red Ryder BB gun, can do half as well in battle. I doubt it!
I also sincerely hope we never have to find out!
DD1000 class side armor is about 150 Tomahawk missiles and 50 Seasparrows. when they explode from a direct gunfire hit the detonation should deflect the incoming round to less critical areas like the Chiefs Mess area.
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