Posts:5376 Joined: July 27th, 2010, 3:02 am
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Now with infinitely more boom.
_________________ “Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error
Posts:5376 Joined: July 27th, 2010, 3:02 am
Location: Aalborg, Denmark
_________________ “Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error
Posts:5376 Joined: July 27th, 2010, 3:02 am
Location: Aalborg, Denmark
_________________ “Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error
Posts:5376 Joined: July 27th, 2010, 3:02 am
Location: Aalborg, Denmark
_________________ “Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error
Posts:2936 Joined: July 26th, 2010, 11:38 pm
Location: Midwest US
Philosophical question for you. I assume these also carried the large side pontoons in service. How would you propose to indicate that, between this and the 1171, the pontoons were not a big change? I like showing one of them in either condition, but I think we don't want to give the impression that these were massively different ships (which they were not).
Posts:5376 Joined: July 27th, 2010, 3:02 am
Location: Aalborg, Denmark
I'm not sure. The LST-1171 were the first class of LST that could carry the pontoons like that on transoceanic voyages. All the previous classes had to resort to deck stowage or let another ship carry them. Note how high the lower fender is mounted on Grant County compared to Washoe county.
_________________ “Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error
Posts:5376 Joined: July 27th, 2010, 3:02 am
Location: Aalborg, Denmark
Unless anyone has anything to ad I'll consider it done.
_________________ “Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error