That is one intimidating looking Starship!

Looks like it should launch TIE fighters.

America! FUCK YEAH!

The military complex may be a bad thing, but that is one awesome looking warship.

probably 200 fully staffed schools there

LOL Westy!! Schools are not good for the defense industry stock price! I bet this ship has some disposable item which is more costly than (1) full college education per use.

>> ^deathcow:

LOL Westy!! Schools are not good for the defense industry stock price! I bet this ship has some disposable item which is more costly than (1) full college education per use.


It probably uses more money in fuel per day than caring for and educating a child through to age 18.

What a waste of money.

Hey, it has its own volleyball court, so how bad can it be?

http://starwarsscifimodels.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/imp-fleet.jpg

This represents a hellofa lot of jobs for union shipbuilders.

11 comments and not one "clitoral" joke. How disappointing.

What's a clitora?

If I were ever rich enough to own a yacht, I want one of those.

>> ^TheFreak:

America! FUCK YEAH!


And a double fuck yeah to Australia. This sucker is based off of an Australian design and built by an Australian company. They had too hard a time convincing our own country that it was worthwhile - thank god the American's could see a winning design and commissioned a few of these babies.

Another piece of shit war machine... just what the world needs.

Moochelle's vacations (from what, exactly?) have cost taxpayers over 10 million dollars (so far). Her angry glare isn't as powerful as these new ships.

Anyone play Endless War?

Feels like it evolved into real life, I mean seriously, WHICH country is going to invade America and make the use of one of these actually necessary. England maybe? France? Are the Palestinians going to object to their illegal occupation and shoot some long range pipe bombs over the Mediteranean and Tyrrhenian Seas and the Atlantic Ocean so they blow up some seagulls on the East Coast? Maybe Mexico will forget that they are connected to NA by land and paddle boats around and storm America with a large shipment of Marijuana?

Can't let those hippies get high, gotta bomb those 'sea-Mehicans' with airspace-ships or we're doomed.

The whole littoral ship program has been one huge mess. Budget overruns, poor planing, etc. The military industrial complex at work. At least it's not as bad as the airborne laser or F/A-22 Raptor projects...

Sure it floats now, wait until it gets a hole in it.

You know, getting back to the video, it has remarkably small bow waves for such a large ship. The wake is a churning mess that goes on for miles, but it looks like it could pass a 18ft sailboat at flank speed without causing much harm.

That's a very expensive basketball court!

>> ^Payback:

You know, getting back to the video, it has remarkably small bow waves for such a large ship. The wake is a churning mess that goes on for miles, but it looks like it could pass a 18ft sailboat at flank speed without causing much harm.


Wikipedia says it can reach 47 knots (87 km/h; 54 mph). I don't know much about ships but I know that's fast for a 115 m long ship. Does the water jets it is using make any difference to the wake?

>> ^harlequinn:

Does the water jets it is using make any difference to the wake?

Yes it does, but as it's the only economical (by defense standards anyway) way to get that hulk up to those speeds, the foam of the wake really doesn't factor in. The impressive part is the bow waves though, or lack thereof. The pontoons (I don't believe they have engines, otherwise they'd be nacelles) seem to catch the bow waves, possibly re-using the force to retrieve some lost kinetic energy. That last part might be coming out of my ass though.

Autobots....transform and merge into Independence !!!!

i saw one of these in India. it runs on android and costs one tenth the amount this one did.