kamakaze + ammunition ship, SSjohn burke R/L pics

[greyrider]

http://www.ussbush.com/slotow.htm

[-Pv-]

The ship logs tell the story well of how determined were the attacks on this convoy over several days.
-Pv-

[Von Tonner]

Thanks for listing that Greyrider. Pics like that bring home the horror and ferociousness of war to me. While I "play" SHIV it is a constant reminder to me of the thousands and thousands of men and woman who gave their all for the freedoms we so many times take for granted today.

Are ammunition ships still built today, or would transport of munitions be mainly by air?

[greyrider]

yea guys, thats what i thought to, i wondered about the crew of the john burke,
i felt really bad, but i know that the crew could not have felt a thing when the ship blew up.
they must have been vaporized in a second.
im pretty sure ammo is still shipped by ocean going vessels.
even tho war sucks, sometimes, sometimes, people just dont have a choice.
sometimes the bad guys just have to get got, for the sake of the world.
im not saying the kamakaze was bad, bad for the allies, but good for japan at the time,
they were tough, tough japanese patriots.
i'd also have to say that i think the japanese military personnel of ww2
were the ultimate warriors.
they just fought tooth and nail, to the death.
i'd like to post another pic, but imageshack is slow this morning and i have to leave for
work in a few minutes, so i guess ill post when i get home..

[vindex]

Wow ... like an atom bomb.

Similar thing happened in Halifax in 1917, by accident, destroyed the entire port. The largest explosion in history prior to the atom bomb, and the largest non-nuclear explosion ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

[Wild_skipper]

Originally Posted by greyrider

http://www.ussbush.com/slotow.htm

what was that ship carying

[GT182]

Originally Posted by Wild_skipper

what was that ship carying

The cameraman, Lt. George Johnson, swings his camera towards a stricken ship loaded with ammunition.

The S.S. JOHN BURKE, a liberty ship, disappears.

[kakemann]

Thanks! Interesting pics

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by vindex

Wow ... like an atom bomb.

Similar thing happened in Halifax in 1917, by accident, destroyed the entire port. The largest explosion in history prior to the atom bomb, and the largest non-nuclear explosion ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

View of the mushroom cloud roughly 15 seconds
after the blast, 21 km (13 miles) away.

From your link, studied this in school.

RDP

RDP

[Capt. Shark Bait]

4th and 5th pic down looks like a nuke popped off

[SingeDebile]

why dont we get explosions like that?

[Biggles]

terrible that is....I mourn the men of John Burke....

[Redwine]

Terrible explosion !

Interesting to know wich can be the damage radius of that kind of explosions.

Tweaking the Zones.cfg file i increased the damage radius of that kind of explosions.

It can be rised at pleasure, so, if you are so near of an exploding ship filled with ammo, your sub can be blasted...

But... wich can be the damage radius for those kind of explosions ?

It can be tweaked from here... into Zones.cfg, go to the bottom of the file, and lok for :

;************************************************* ******
[Global Params]
CargoExplosionRange=50 ;25 default. The range of cargo explosion

Default is 25, i rised up it to 50, so an ammo filled ship wich explodes into a radius of 400m can seriouslly damage my sub...

Originally Posted by SingeDebile

why dont we get explosions like that?

We have... but not with that FX graphic effect, but there are ammo explosion, and their power can be adjusted/tweaked as i wrote above.

If you adjust 100 or 200 your sub can be blasted and killed even if you are at 1 km of the ship...

They have some amazing graphic effects, those effects can be added, but sadly there is not an "atomic" effect like that showed into the pictures of the Jhon Burke...

[AkbarGulag]

Originally Posted by vindex

Wow ... like an atom bomb.

Similar thing happened in Halifax in 1917, by accident, destroyed the entire port. The largest explosion in history prior to the atom bomb, and the largest non-nuclear explosion ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

Interesting that you mention the atom bomb here... It was precisely this halifax disaster and another similiar on the east coast of the US in WW2, that gave the research for the optimum drop height of the two nuclear devices delivered over Japan.