My only interesting Reddit item is that for years I had the BB-35 flair on r/warshipporn
- . -- .--. . .-. / - . -- .--. . .-..He flooded ballast chambers that were designed to be flooded, for the purpose of keeping the ship balanced. Not really that extreme.
Oh I thought he set the ship on fire
No he set the ship to fire
pfft. I thought mofo grounded his ship so he could get his guns closer to the eurotrash.
Then he’d get to call it something cool like the Adama Maneuver.
Just re-watched this episode last night. I totally forgot they did this and it’s so awesome.
For those of us uninformed, what show is that?
Battlestar Galactica (2004).
Genuinely one of the best pieces of military SciFi ever made. Kind of falls apart in the last third, but still worth the time.
Just for the record, he was far from the first to do it. He probably just new naval warfare history: There are records describing this way back in the 17th century.
Yeah, it was not uncommon in the age of sail to time your fire with the swaying of the ship. But nobody was doing that with big 20th-century battleships. What’s old is new again.
Fun fact: US battleships of this period usually used computerized firing systems that would time the firing of the guns so that they’d only fire when the ship happened to be level.
To accomplish this feat, they would have had to use the manual override controls and time the shots manually. They could get longer range that way, but it would be less accurate than the computer system could otherwise achieve.
