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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser
I see you used the Red Dawn fact file as a basis for Salem's reactivation... the same should go for her sister Des Moines.
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Certainly! I had two thoughts... 1) Why reinvent the wheel when the Red Dawn document presented a presentable explanation of the ships and 2) the 1980s plans I saw involved removing the aft turret and fitting of Tomahawk armored box launchers, substituting these ships for the Iowas. I liked leaving the big guns in place and figured that the number of CGs, DDs, DDGs, SSNs and BBs that carried Tomahawk would be sufficient to achieve the Navy's goals, leaving the Salem and Des Moines to serve as naval gunfire support ships. I'm not going to try to find out how much ammo the Navy had in store for them by the late 80s, instead operating in a fantasy world where the ships have endless rivers of 8-inch ammo to keep spitting out at 72 rounds per minute when all 9 guns are going!
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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