Whats The Heavy Armor Brigade?

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2004-04-28 01:45pm

SyntaxVorlon wrote:*sticks really big cork into chardok's gun while he's chewing out knife.

*not a good idea to clog the barrel when the bullets are actually gernades*

Chardoc wrote:Listen here, Wader, Just because you marines get the Army's Hand-me-downs, don't hate on our 1337 pimp gunzes, k?

Yeah, army's gear is soooo pristine. Thats why your SAW's suck just as bad as our's did.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-04-28 03:09pm

CHARDOK IS SPELLED WITH A K YOU HEATHEN!

regarding the SAW...

It was a secret military plan. Instead of Army gear ----> Marines
They tried it the other way around Marines---> Army.

You, of course are not aware of it, and public reports are to the contrary, of course, but my contacts assure me this is the case, and the REASON for the SAW's inherent suckitude.

LICK ME!

Have a very nice day

Oh, the 40mm Grenade, IIRC, is fuzed in such a way to prevent premature detonation (I think it has to spin....4 times 360 degrees before it's armed...)

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-04-28 04:50pm

Knife wrote:
Lonestar wrote:
"The HAB talks it. The Mess lives it."
Hmmm, me likey. Since I'm in both, I think I shall place that in my sig, if you don't mind.

Hey hey hey HEY!

I said it first!! Lonestar repeated after me! Proper attribution here, dammit!

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-04-28 06:19pm

RogueIce wrote: Hey hey hey HEY!

I said it first!! Lonestar repeated after me! Proper attribution here, dammit!

Might as well get used to people taking credit for your ideas.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-04-28 06:24pm

RogueIce wrote: Unless this is a not-so-subtle dig at us. In which case, well... You guys talk about it, we live it. Hah.

You're too paranoid, man

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-04-28 06:25pm

RogueIce wrote: I said it first!! Lonestar repeated after me! Proper attribution here, dammit!

I love your Sig, man:

Citizens for a Relaxed Spanky: Supporting Theraputic Oral Sex in Iowa since 2002.

Classic

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2004-04-28 07:14pm

RogueIce wrote:
Hey hey hey HEY!

I said it first!! Lonestar repeated after me! Proper attribution here, dammit!

Strictly speaking, you said

You guys talk about it, we live it

I, however, said

The HAB talks it. The Mess lives it.

and Shep said

WATCH OUT OR I'LL GUN YOU DOWN YOU LIBERAL DOGS!!!

Please don't hunt me down and shoot me. I'm a crappy shot. I fix computers!

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-04-28 08:36pm

Lonestar wrote:Please don't hunt me down and shoot me. I'm a crappy shot. I fix computers!

If I were you, I wouldn't go anywhere near your bunk tonight

Shhhh, are the claymores set up for maximum carnage, and the bouncing betties in the floor set up so if he escapes teh claymore in bunk
trick, he still gets deballed?

Yes, Reichsführer.

Ah good carry on.

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2004-04-28 08:37pm

MKSheppard wrote:
If I were you, I wouldn't go anywhere near your bunk tonight

Shhhh, are the claymores set up for maximum carnage, and the bouncing betties in the floor set up so if he escapes teh claymore in bunk
trick, he still gets deballed?

Yes, Reichsführer.

Ah good carry on.

Yes kiddies, all this and more you can expect in the HAB.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-04-28 08:39pm

Lonestar wrote:
MKSheppard wrote:
If I were you, I wouldn't go anywhere near your bunk tonight

Shhhh, are the claymores set up for maximum carnage, and the bouncing betties in the floor set up so if he escapes teh claymore in bunk
trick, he still gets deballed?

Yes, Reichsführer.

Ah good carry on.
Yes kiddies, all this and more you can expect in the HAB.

Sometimes more than you *want* to expect.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-04-28 08:40pm

Lonestar wrote: Yes kiddies, all this and more you can expect in the HAB.

Lets not forget the HAB Objective INterim Light SUpport Craft, which
is to the HAB what those 5" gunned landing craft were to the USN in WW2:

USS Maryland, Heavy Armor Brigade Landing Support Craft laid down 1950

Displacement:

27,702,400 t light; 30,267,830 t standard;
30,269,710 t normal; 30,269,710 t full load

Dimensions:
3,280.84 ft x 1,640.42 ft x 328.08 ft (normal load)
1,000.00 m x 500.00 m x 100.00 m

Armament:
3 - 250.00" / 6,350 mm guns (1 Main turrets x 3 guns)
40 - 16.00" / 406 mm guns (20 2nd turrets x 2 guns)
500 - 1.57" / 40 mm AA guns
1000 - 0.50" / 13 mm guns
Weight of broadside 23,520,460 lbs / 10,668,700 kg

Armour:
Belt 60.00" / 1,524 mm, ends unarmoured
Belts cover 500 % of normal area
Main turrets 60.00" / 1,524 mm, 2nd turrets 12.00" / 305 mm
AA gun shields 1.00" / 25 mm
Armour deck 40.00" / 1,016 mm, Conning tower 120.00" / 3,048 mm
Torpedo bulkhead 4.00" / 102 mm

Machinery:
Diesel Internal combustion generators,
Electric motors, 16 shafts, 660,464 shp / 492,706 Kw = 15.00 kts
Range 1,100nm at 5.00 kts

Complement:
204,045 - 265,258

Cost:
£26,905.840 million / $107,623.300 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 2,940,057 tons, 9.7 %
Armour: 8,175,990 tons, 27.0 %
Belts: 1,769,974 tons, 5.8 %, Armament: 3,216,214 tons, 10.6 %, Armour Deck: 2,828,350 tons, 9.3 %
Conning Tower: 257,903 tons, 0.9 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 103,549 tons, 0.3 %
Machinery: 15,801 tons, 0.1 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 16,570,550 tons, 54.7 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 2,567,315 tons, 8.5 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %

Metacentric height 423.8

Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is excellent
Room for accommodation & workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Excellent seaboat, comfortable and able to fight her guns in the heaviest weather

Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.14
Shellfire needed to sink: 46,239,020 lbs / 20,973,670 Kg = 5.9 x 250.0 " / 6,350 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 48,172.6
(Approx number of typical torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 100 %
(Average = 50 %)

I have clearly heeded GREAT LEADER'S WISDOM that
the future Naval Weapons system shall throw a shell weighing more
than a man-o-war currently in service. Anything less than 41,000 ton
shell weight is unacceptabul for the HAB Objective Interim Sea Control Ship.

And yes, this works, I used it using a warship designer program which
is veeeeeery accurate

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2004-04-28 09:56pm

Wow, its funny to think back to when the HAB was created. The things that were said in that thread... Good times. I'm sure the HAB was inevitable, but hate really sped up the creative juices eh? Now I mean this with the utmost dry martinni wit: Hate! Bringing people together since the Jews.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-04-28 10:56pm

Lonestar wrote:
MKSheppard wrote:
If I were you, I wouldn't go anywhere near your bunk tonight

Shhhh, are the claymores set up for maximum carnage, and the bouncing betties in the floor set up so if he escapes teh claymore in bunk
trick, he still gets deballed?

Yes, Reichsführer.

Ah good carry on.
Yes kiddies, all this and more you can expect in the HAB.

Meanwhile, sign away at least a good two years of your life or more, join the Mess, and have assholes here steal your good ideas and claim full credit on mere semantics, and everyone else just saying, "Get used to it."

Gotta love the espirit de corps in today's military, folks.

Shep wrote:
Me wrote:Citizens for a Relaxed Spanky: Supporting Theraputic Oral Sex in Iowa since 2002.
Classic

Thanks. I like that line too. Spread the word!

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-04-28 11:03pm

RogueIce wrote:
Shep wrote:
Me wrote:Citizens for a Relaxed Spanky: Supporting Theraputic Oral Sex in Iowa since 2002.
Classic
Thanks. I like that line too. Spread the word!

Oh, and unlike certain unnamed members of the US Navy, I do believe in giving credit where credit is due. IP came up with that quote during an IM discussion we had.

To those unnamed Sailors: do please take notes. And observe that we who are to be officers do the right thing. *ahem* That is all.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-28 11:06pm

Might help if you spelled it correctly.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-04-28 11:16pm

Rogue 9 wrote:Might help if you spelled it correctly.

Eh? The "EDC" I may've misspelled? Go find something more useful to do with your time. There's no spellcheck on this board. You don't count. If and/or when Mike puts in some program to do it, that'll count. Not you. Now shoo.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-28 11:19pm

I was referring to the sig. Its "therapeutic."

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-04-28 11:21pm

Rogue 9 wrote:I was referring to the sig. Its "therapeutic."

Talk to IP. I copy and pasted. And go read jmac's sig. Yeah, that applies to me too. So there.

And no, I'm not gonna change it. Hah!

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-04-28 11:23pm

D'oh. I'm an idiot.

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2004-05-01 12:49am

RogueIce wrote:

Oh, and unlike certain unnamed members of the US Navy, I do believe in giving credit where credit is due. IP came up with that quote during an IM discussion we had.

To those unnamed Sailors: do please take notes. And observe that we who are to be officers do the right thing. *ahem* That is all.

Boss, I'm going to tell you the same thing we told CTT3 Meathead.

"We don't give a damn. Now empty the God-damned swab bucket, FNG."

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2004-05-01 02:11am

Lonestar wrote:
MKSheppard wrote:
If I were you, I wouldn't go anywhere near your bunk tonight

Shhhh, are the claymores set up for maximum carnage, and the bouncing betties in the floor set up so if he escapes teh claymore in bunk
trick, he still gets deballed?

Yes, Reichsführer.

Ah good carry on.
Yes kiddies, all this and more you can expect in the HAB.

They let you get all the way to the bunks?

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2004-05-01 04:37am

SirNitram wrote:
They let you get all the way to the bunks?

We're pretty incompetent.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2004-05-01 03:12pm

Why was I removed from the HAB? I'm guessing it was because I rarely (if ever) posted in it, but I still read the topics.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-05-01 06:13pm

Lonestar wrote:
RogueIce wrote:

Oh, and unlike certain unnamed members of the US Navy, I do believe in giving credit where credit is due. IP came up with that quote during an IM discussion we had.

To those unnamed Sailors: do please take notes. And observe that we who are to be officers do the right thing. *ahem* That is all.
Boss, I'm going to tell you the same thing we told CTT3 Meathead.

"We don't give a damn. Now empty the God-damned swab bucket, FNG."

I used to wonder why people had the impression that Sailors were shifty, no good, lazy bums with bad attitudes.

Thanks to Lonestar, I now know why. Because they are.

At least the techies are. Which is what, 95% of the ratings?

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-05-01 07:31pm

Jadeite wrote:Why was I removed from the HAB? I'm guessing it was because I rarely (if ever) posted in it, but I still read the topics.

It was the GREAT CLEAN-UP. You must have not posted in the "post here to acknowledge your existence or die" thread.