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 Forum: Off Topic  Topic: French Veil Ban Passes Important Test

Finfan
 Post subject: Re: French Veil Ban Passes Important Test Posted: October 9th, 2010, 2:12 am 

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The burqa is one of the most irrelevant items of both Muslim society in the middle east and of patriarchal social relations in the greater scheme of things. Women are equally oppressed in lots of other places, but since the oppression isn't done by the current bogeyman (Islam) and they can show thei...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: HMAS Sydney FAC

Finfan
 Post subject: Re: HMAS Sydney FAC Posted: October 8th, 2010, 7:10 pm 

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one of the rafts is one pixel too high :P

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Pushing shipbucket to the limits.

Finfan
 Post subject: Re: Pushing shipbucket to the limits. Posted: October 7th, 2010, 3:46 pm 

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Crew: The ship is not a cruiseship, most of the people on board are employed on the ship itself. - 23.400 employed in propulsion, power, water maintenance - 88.700 employed in general maintenance - 43.000 employed in shops and stores - 260.200 employed in schools, restaurants, bars etc. - 135.500 e...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Pushing shipbucket to the limits.

Finfan
 Post subject: Re: Pushing shipbucket to the limits. Posted: October 7th, 2010, 12:17 am 

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Colosseum wrote:
What's the point of electronic countermeasures and chaff? The ship's already so big that you'd have to just accept missile hits anyway.
but perhaps you can confuse the missile and make it hit the cheap cabins rather than the first-class ones

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Pushing shipbucket to the limits.

Finfan
 Post subject: Re: Pushing shipbucket to the limits. Posted: October 6th, 2010, 10:54 pm 

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why the armament? I understand the tucked away CIWS but the larger cannon?

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: HMAS Melbourne FAC

Finfan
 Post subject: Re: HMAS Melbourne FAC Posted: October 6th, 2010, 10:15 pm 

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One question. HMAS sydney and melbourne are from one class. Why is their lengt,height of the hull so different? Sydney was a straight-up Majestic-Class, while Melbourne was heavily modified in the late 60s in order to be able to operate more modern planes. Apart from more modern electronics and com...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: HMAS Sydney FAC

Finfan
 Post subject: Re: HMAS Sydney FAC Posted: October 6th, 2010, 10:09 pm 

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Thanks Colo, it certainly looks a lot better; I'll make a point of following this in future :) Re Argentinian version Finfan; you could work from this quite easily; though the Independencia was a Collossus class, there wasn't really much in the outward apperance to diferentiate the two classess. Al...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: Unknown's ships replacement

Finfan
 Post subject: Re: Unknown's ships replacement Posted: October 5th, 2010, 10:37 pm 

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If this is the "unknown" who did the RN ships, then I've done a bit of work on Nelson already.

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: HMAS Sydney FAC

Finfan
 Post subject: Re: HMAS Sydney FAC Posted: October 5th, 2010, 10:22 pm 

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Superb really. If you don't mind I can make the Argentine carriers from this, it would make for an excellent starting point.

 Forum: Off Topic  Topic: Anniversary of 200 years of independence of Chile

Finfan
 Post subject: Re: Anniversary of 200 years of independence of Chile Posted: September 30th, 2010, 12:08 am 

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And it probably would have been poor form for the US to send a ship bigger than those in Chile service to their parade. You don't want to show off the host unless you've got bad taste. This is quite probably the reason, you can't have a visiting ship be the de-facto flagship by virtue of being the ...
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