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| Anonymous #737231 7 months ago |
inb4 "/Another/ RD ship? ugh" |
| Anonymous #737246 7 months ago |
yo dawg. i herd you like rainbow dash shipping, so we shipped rainbow dash with a rainbow dash ship so you can ship rainbow dash with a ship while you ship rainbow dash with a ship. |
| Lancer #737583 7 months ago |
A little heavy for Rainbow Dash. I'd have given her a cruiser at most. This looks like Applejack material: Heavy and powerful. |
| Anonymous #737846 7 months ago |
Well, at least she doesn't look like a tank!
:) |
| Anonymous #737999 7 months ago |
Shouldn't the RD ship be a high speed type? |
| Ferrotter #744738 7 months ago |
^ She might be a fast battlecruiser rather than a heavier battleship. I can't really tell from the pictures. Battlecruisers were the fastest capital ships in their day. In the earliest days (like the era of this ship's construction, based on the arrangement of her armament), before the Froude number was understood (roughly sort of like the Mach number, but for bow waves instead of sound. A longer ship can push more of a bow wave before too much of its hull length gets stuck in the trough behind the wave, and so for equal power:weight ratios, a longer ship is faster), battlecruisers could generally outrun even their destroyer escorts. Only tiny speedboat-like torpedo boats with planing hulls and very powerful engines to climb on top of their own bow wave and essentially "break the Froude barrier" could outrun them. Later destroyers would have enormous engines for ships of their size, so they could keep up with battlecruisers and the later fast battleships (this is clearly from an earlier era than fast battleships though).
So if this is a battlecruiser rather than a battleship, it's fairly appropriate. |
| MaroonBunyip #744742 7 months ago |
geez, Ferrotter.
You sure know your ships. You in the Navy? Or engineer for this sort of thing? |
| Ferrotter #746917 7 months ago |
Engineer, but mostly a long-time naval engineering nut. :-)
I did a little more looking and I think Rainbow Dash may be a hybrid of some early fast battleship designs. The hull is very similar to a Pennsylvania class battleship, but the twin funnels suggest a late 1930s refit of a South Dakota (not the1930s-built ones that actually served in WWII, but an earlier late WWI class with the name that were cancelled at the end of the war and and were either never started, or what little was done on them was cut up for scrap.) So as a fast battleship she'd have at least equal firepower to Fluttershy, equal or better speed, and substantially more toughness. Very appropriate. |