Deterrent

"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012) 05/04/2020 at 08:41 • Filed to: None

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Went on Ebay and ordered myself a Chinese made warship. It’s slightly used. But no matter. I will park it up at the sea of PartyPooper2012 to deter any neighbors attempting excursions onto my shores

But now I am confused. This says it’s a battleship, warship and aircraft carrier. Is it all in one?

SELL AS IS Challenger Aircraft Carrier Battleship RC Model Boat 30" Warship Used

PartyPooper2012 sea

PartyPooper2012 > PartyPooper2012 05/04/2020 at 08:52

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EDIT: PartyPooper2012 sea

facw > PartyPooper2012 05/04/2020 at 09:06

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Well it’s a Kiev class (more or less): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev-class_aircraft_carrier

They were part guided missile cruiser, part aircraft carrier, so the description isn’t quite as crazy as it sounds.

One was converted for the Indian Navy at ludicrous expense becoming  a full aircraft carrier capable of launching non-STOVL planes via ski jump :

The other two remaining Kiev class ships are in China doing museum/hotel/theme park duty (though it’s thought that the PRC navy first studied them to learn a bit about building carriers), which might explain why someone is making the toy.

PartyPooper2012 > facw 05/04/2020 at 09:44

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hmm... Kiev? As in Ukraine?

How do these ships get their classifications? Why was this one Kiev? Was in made in Kiev?

Edit. Never mind. This is an old Soviet cruiseship. The builder was based in Black sea.

Crazy the chinese have their hands on these pups now. 

ranwhenparked > PartyPooper2012 05/04/2020 at 09:56

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Usually, ships are classed just based on the name of the first ship in the class. The Ukrainian SSR was the major shipbuilding center for the USSR, with the Russian SFSR a close second. 

ttyymmnn > PartyPooper2012 05/04/2020 at 09:57

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There was talk at one time about converting Iowa-class BBs into hybrid battle carriers with Harriers . Would have been awesome, but it never went past the concept stage.

user314 > PartyPooper2012 05/04/2020 at 10:02

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Soviet/Russian aircraft carriers are always called “heavy aircraft cruisers “ to get around a 1936 treaty regarding ships transiting the Bosporus Straits. Since all their ships were built in the Ukrainian SSR, and the Turks bar aircraft carriers heavier than 15,000 to nes from the Straits, they’d not be much use limited to the Black Sea (though with the Kuznetsov , it was never much good to begin with), so they’re classified as cruisers rather than carriers.

PartyPooper2012 > facw 05/04/2020 at 11:16

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I want to give it a name USS PartyPooper2012.... but I am not sure if such ships get name tags on them

facw > PartyPooper2012 05/04/2020 at 11:29

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The US Navy doesn’t usually put big names on things, but some ships have small (compared to aircraft carrier size) labels on the stern. Here’s USS Harry S. Truman for example:

PartyPooper2012 > facw 05/04/2020 at 11:31

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oh damn, that is tiny! I’ve seen tramp stamps bigger than that.

Hmm. This sucks then. N o one will know the name of my heavy cruiser

facw > PartyPooper2012 05/04/2020 at 11:39

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It’s true that they may have had more style in the past:

On the other hand, the Soviets put great big naming near  the bow of these:

PartyPooper2012 > facw 05/04/2020 at 11:44

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Well, I don’t want my neighbors freaking out and calling NSA saying there is a soviet destroyer parked outside their backyard.

But I hear what you are saying. In America, we need to put a small tramp- stamp on the back to remind those chasing us, who they are chasing.

user314 > ttyymmnn 05/04/2020 at 12:05

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Shut up and take my money!  Some absolute nutter of a model maker built a 1/350 scale version of the Pulver design. 

Derpwagon > user314 05/04/2020 at 13:38

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That’s amazing.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > ttyymmnn 05/04/2020 at 19:25

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“ We’re about to spread some freedom on that coastline”