Deck Guns and Aircraft

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Obltn Strand

Is it worth attacking airships with any/all available armament?
Those things were supposed to be filled with hydrogen during ww2.

http://centennialofflight.gov/essay/...WWII/LTA10.htm

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

That goes for half the things he says! :P

And I thought they got rid of hydrogen after the hindenberg accident. I would hope even the densest designers would think that filling a very large bag with a very explosive gas would be bad in wartime.

Surely you can't say that of the BBC

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

And I thought they got rid of hydrogen after the hindenberg accident. I would hope even the densest designers would think that filling a very large bag with a very explosive gas would be bad in wartime.

The designers of Hindenburg were not dense. In fact they wanted to use helium, but at the time the United States was the only nation in the world which could manufacture helium, and we weren't about to sell to Germany considering the use zeppelins had been put to in the previous war. For Hindenburg it was hydrogen or nothing.
http://www.unmuseum.org/hindenburg.htm

As for more recent gasbags, no comment.

[Obltn Strand]

Originally Posted by Obltn Strand

Is it worth attacking airships with any/all available armament?
Those things were supposed to be filled with hydrogen during ww2.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

http://centennialofflight.gov/essay/...WWII/LTA10.htm

Only one airship was lost to enemy action. A surfaced German U*boat shot down the airship K-74 during a battle, but the K*74 damaged the German submarine so badly that it could not submerge and was sunk by British bombers in the North Sea while it was en route to Germany for repairs.

Quess not.
I thought couple of flak rounds and huge ball of fire.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Obltn Strand

Is it worth attacking airships with any/all available armament?
Those things were supposed to be filled with hydrogen during ww2.

US airships never used anything but helium.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Haven't a clue what that's supposed to mean

I've also a video of a surface engagement with a ghost ship that fires back

My reply was directed to Jeff, and not you ... so I understand that you have no track,

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by privateer

Jim is going to re-upload tomorrow.
I already PM'ed him about it.

Picking a fight with a blimp:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21044910/Airship2_avi

I'll dig out the ghost ship that fights back.

[Obltn Strand]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

US airships never used anything but helium.

I knew US had it during the ww2 but with that quantity. Pretty secret stuff too. IIRC helium had security clasification one below a-bomb.

Ah Crap.


I thought you had a deck gun fireing on the K-Ship.

Getting old I guess.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by privateer

Ah Crap.


I thought you had a deck gun fireing on the K-Ship.

Getting old I guess.

LOL

[Jimbuna]

The ghost ship (Flying Dutchman)

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21044...g_Dutchman_avi