by "Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
Published 02/05/2017 at 12:35
by "Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
Published 02/05/2017 at 12:35
Tags: Big machines
STARS: 0
Show me the largest vehicles/machines in the world!!!
Meet NASA’s crawler transporters, originally built in 1964, these massive beasts ride on tracks so heavy, each shoe weighs as much as a smart. Top speed is 2 mph empty and total power output is around 8,000 HP.
Do you have anything bigger?
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
02/05/2017 at 12:39, STARS: 5
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"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
02/05/2017 at 12:41, STARS: 2
Biggest thing anyone can ride on would be Deez Nuts if I’m not mistaken.
"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
02/05/2017 at 12:42, STARS: 1
Deepwater Horizon was a pretty massive vehicle.
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
02/05/2017 at 12:43, STARS: 1
Came for this.
"wafflesnfalafel" (wafflesnfalafel1)
02/05/2017 at 12:44, STARS: 5
MV Blue Marlin -
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"crowmolly" (crowmolly)
02/05/2017 at 12:46, STARS: 4
Harmony of the seas.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
02/05/2017 at 12:54, STARS: 7
I win.
"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
02/05/2017 at 12:58, STARS: 1
In case you need to pull small city...
"E90M3" (e90m3)
02/05/2017 at 13:00, STARS: 2
You’d think Halliburton would know how to cement a well, after all they pretty much invented it.
"PS9" (PS9)
02/05/2017 at 13:00, STARS: 1
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"Spridget" (dustbustervans)
02/05/2017 at 13:01, STARS: 1
The LARC military transporter!
"BorkBorkBjork" (tbirdlemons)
02/05/2017 at 13:21, STARS: 1
The Yamato Class Battleship:
At 862 Feet long and displacing up to 72,000 tons, it was the largest Battleship ever created. The main armor belt was up to 16 inches thick, with the turret faces being up to 26 inches thick.
The main battery consisted of the largest guns ever fitted to a warship, the 40 cm/45 Type 94 Naval Gun. The name is actually a ruse, meant to mislead any party attempting to gain information about the vessel into thinking the warship had 40 cm (16 inch) guns. In reality, the main battery caliber was 46 cm, or 18.1 inches. An armor-piercing shell from the Yamato’s main battery weighed 3200 lbs, 500 lbs more than its nearest competitor at the time (the American 16"/45 caliber Mk 6 gun).
The vessel had 12 oil-fired boilers, 4 steam turbines, and a total of 150,000 Shaft Horsepower. All that combined with numerous hydrodynamic breakthrough, including a large “bulbous bow”, allowed the Yamato to achieve a speed of 27 knots despite its considerable width and displacement.
The Yamato was the absolute epitome of battleship construction, but the age of the Battleship had begun to wane. The Yamato was sunk on the 7th of April 1945 by carrier-borne aircraft after sustaining 11 hits from air-dropped torpedoes and 6 hits from armor-piercing bombs. Her magazine exploded, she capsized, and sunk.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
02/05/2017 at 13:21, STARS: 2
Not bigger, but longer and still pretty damn big
One of the LeTourneau Overland Trains
"CTSenVy" (CTSenVy)
02/05/2017 at 13:33, STARS: 0
Ahh beat me to it.
"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
02/05/2017 at 13:57, STARS: 2
Yo dog you need a ship to carry yo ships?
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
02/05/2017 at 14:22, STARS: 0
10/10 - Totally Titanic. :)
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
02/05/2017 at 14:23, STARS: 0
What is that beauty?
"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
02/05/2017 at 14:27, STARS: 0
Made to haul a few 100,000lbs for oil companies off road or to DD if you are optimistic.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
02/05/2017 at 14:27, STARS: 0
Mmmm I love learning about old ships. It’s amazing what humans achieved back then! How would the Yamato compare to a modern warship?
"BorkBorkBjork" (tbirdlemons)
02/05/2017 at 15:20, STARS: 2
How would the Yamato compare to a modern warship?
This question is actually a bit controversial, so let’s go into a bit of history.
Intially, warships measured their combat capability based on the weight of their broadside and their armor’s “zone of immmunity”.
The weight of a broadside is fairly simple, how much metal can you put in the air with one salvo? The Yamato could put 28,800 lbs, the Iowa class could muster around 24,000 lbs.
The Zone of Immunity is the distance from an enemy warship which your ships armor is most effective. Ship armor is effectivly square (the deck is horizontal and the sides are vertical), so ideally you want any incoming fire to hit your ship at a 45-degree angle, which means it has the greatest chance of being deflected away. The closer the enemy gets, the flatter the trajectory of their shot, andd the more likely it can penetrate your ships side belt armor. The further away the enemy ship, the steeper the trajectory, and the more likely it will penetrate your deck armor.
So, thick armor means you have a larger Zone of Immunity, large guns means you can punch through heavier armor (reducing your enemies zone of immunity), and high speed means you can keep your enemy at the range you want and control the engagement.
Pretty simple, right? Well, then airplanes came around, and threw all that out of the window. An air-dropped bomb always comes from direct vertical, which means it will always have a nice, flat piece of armor to penetrate. An air-dropped torpedo will always hit your ship below the waterline, causing flooding. Now your armor is not longer effective, if anything it is just slowing your ship down.
So now, a ships best bet at survival is to simply not get hit, so ship designs ditch the armor after World War 2 and mount huge numbers of rapid firing Anti-Aircraft Guns. In response, planes got faster. So ships started deployed Surface to Air missile systems to shoot down enemy aircraft before they could get close enough to drop their bombs or torpedoes. The Terrier Missile System was one of the first systems to do just that.
In response to that, countries designed Anti-Ship missiles that could be launched outside the umbrella of Surface to Air Missiles. And that is where we are today; ever-better missiles fighting ever better missiles.
But in there lies an issue, every single Anti-Ship missile system out there, for the past 60 years, has been designed to fight ships that have also been designed in the past 60 years. Ships that have no armor.
In fact, a modern anti-ship missile (designed to penetrate only a half-inch or so of steel and then detonate) would splatter against the side of a Yamato like an egg hitting a brick wall. This is one of the reasons why there are so many individuals that want to keep the Iowa Class Battleships in fighting shape (and why they were reactivated in the 1980s), they believe that these ships would be capable of shrugging off enemy fire whilst dealing devastating blows with both modern and vintage weaponry.
TL;DR: A modern warship would likely not have the necessary firepower to sink a Yamato, due to its armor thickness and compartmentalization.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
02/05/2017 at 16:15, STARS: 0
Hot damn, I totally didn’t see a military equipment lesson in response!! :) I actually had no idea newer ships were designed with less armor in mind, but it’s amazing to read how technology changes for new challenges.
One more question!!! Do any of our enemies even come close to the air force we have?
"BorkBorkBjork" (tbirdlemons)
02/05/2017 at 17:17, STARS: 1
Well, once again, it’s a difficult question. The nearest competitor I would say is the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force, which has about 2800 or so aircraft and about 380,000 active personnel. The United States military has about 5000 aircraft, with about 308,000 active personnel. We have more planes, they have more people (because, well,
of course
they have more people). For comparison, The Russian Air Force has about 150,000 personnel and 3500 or so aircraft (I’m sure you can extrapolate from that ratio the fact that most of their planes don’t fly anymore).
As far as capability, it is not really a contest, the United States Air Force is unmatched in the skies. China spends $147 Billion on its entire military (Army, Navy, and Air Force combined), whereas the United States spends $161 Billion... just on the Air Force.
The Chinese are just now getting to the point where their systems have parity with equipment we were deploying 30 years ago, and with us still outspending them 3 to 1, that is unlikely to change. They are making progress in certain areas (the J31 and J20 will likely be the first non-US Stealth aircraft to be operational), but this is mostly because Cyberwarfare units of the PLA hacked Lockheed (and other defense contractors, and countless other companies) and got their hands on the designs of the F-35 (our newest Stealth aircraft). The problem there, is that they didn’t gain this knowledge themselves, and that means they don’t have minds that have been working on these types of problems for decades (when I worked at a certain defense contractor, we joked that our wing of the building had over a millennia of combined experience building planes).
Short answer: no. US capability is unmatched. We can strike anywhere in the world with almost complete impunity.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
02/05/2017 at 20:37, STARS: 0
That is absolutely awesome. Thanks for all the info!!! <3
I’ve always known we’ve had the air superiority, but I didn’t know just by how much! I didn’t know China’s jet tech was that far behind. Though I shouldn’t be surprised, they are aiming to have a manned moon landing in about 20 years from now.
I love the North Korean military, it’s like stepping into a time machine. :D
"BorkBorkBjork" (tbirdlemons)
02/05/2017 at 21:09, STARS: 0
North Korea is both hilarious and sad, an unfortunate anomaly in the post-Cold War world. An interesting read on the subject is Barbra Demick’s “Nothing to Envy”, which follows a handful of individuals in North Korea from the good days (when both the Soviets and the Chinese were pouring cash into NK coffers), through the famine, and into their eventual decision to defect. I cannot reccommend it enough, it adds such a visceral human element to a nation that we so-often joke about.
And don’t forget the Iranian Air Force! They are the most bizzaro hodgepodge of aircraft you’re ever seen! They are the worlds only operator of the F-14 Tomcat (which we gave them back when we were friends), they have the worlds only 747 Air Refueler, and they have dozens of leftover Soviet planes too. It is very odd to see Soviet planes escorting American planes during flyovers.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
02/06/2017 at 03:00, STARS: 0
RT-flex96C
drop this into Tucker!
8)
"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
02/06/2017 at 10:52, STARS: 0
How about a CNC machine used for finishing ship propellers? http://oppositelock.kinja.com/that-is-one-big-cnc-mill-1791394897
Or the New Safe Confinement Building which is the largest moving structure in the world.
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/they-have-finished-moving-the-new-sarcophagus-over-cher-1789480433