#Battleship

[lonestarbattleship]

King-Nimitz redesign of the Iowa class for USS ILLINOIS (BB-65) USS KENTUCKY (BB-66). The top image shows how they'd look in the mid to late 1940s and to bottom shows how they might be modernized in the 1980s.

Posted on Deviantart by Tzoli: link, link

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[theworldatwar]

The Battle ship USS West Virginia targets enemy positions as US marines head to shore - Okinawa, April 1945

[enriquemzn262]

USS California underway.

[emersontung]

Pretty excited for 2024 as this is the year my dieselpunk narrative artbook TANKHEAD launches! The book releases in May and the deluxe edition is available for preorder now: tinyurl.com/yc88v79n Here are some of TANKHEAD art released in 2023.

[nocternalrandomness]

Pulling out of a low pass over the USS Missouri

[the-art-of-dieselpunk-war]

Makoto Kobayashi

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[illustratus]

Warships at Anchor by Moonlight by Eduardo de Martino

[askmovieslate]

Can I be honest with you guys?

I love this movie.

I am sorry, but I love the heckity heck out of this movie. It's perhaps the most sincere and accurate adaptation of anything ever made by a big Hollywood blockbuster. It never fails to make me smile, it's so much fun, which isn't to say the movie's good of course. It's an adaptation of a board game, how the hell are you supposed to make that into a movie?

Well, you just write it! Throw in a bunch of good character arcs, a handful of good actors, and a director who knows where to place the camera, and you get yourself a pretty mindless but genuinely enjoyable sci-fi action movie! Something we've been lacking of for a while by the time this movie came out, and isn't that worth celebrating? It's not reinventing the wheel but it's rolling it down a slope really well. And I think that's worth a golf clap.

[lonestarbattleship]

December 9, 2024 Update from the Battleship Texas Foundation

"The Battleship Texas took another big step today with the temporary removal of the foretop for repairs.

The foretop, which housed the primary directors for the 14" and 5" gun batteries, was removed from the ship for thorough repairs and painting (inside and out). Gulf Copper's excellent welders, fitters, and painters will have the foretop ready to go back on the ship by the end of January.

Incidentally, though this is the farthest the foretop has been away from the ship it is not the first time it has been removed -it was removed in 1989 for critical stabilization which got it to now.

Our analysis, like that of our predecessors in 1989, showed that temporarily removing the structure was a far safer and cost effective means of repair than repairing in place.

We want to thank Kevin Teichman and T&T Salvage for the generous in-kind donation of their heavy lift crane barge, tugs, and crews to make this lift. We could not have got this lift off the ground with out Mr. Teichman's support."

Posted on the Battleship Texas Foundation Facebook page: link

[haunted-planes]

Boats upon ye!

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battleship

[enriquemzn262]

Battleships of WW2.

[emersontung]

Battleships from my upcoming narrative artbook TANKHEAD

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Brad Deckert over the USS Missouri Memorial at Pearl Harbor in a 1945 TBM-3E Avenger