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The last three XXIs

Discussion in 'The War at Sea' started by Che_Guevara, Oct 22, 2007.

  1. Che_Guevara

    Che_Guevara New Member

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    "3 Type XXI boats in the Elbe II in Hamburg
    These boats were virtually missing until 1985 when the boats were discovered through research by Jak P Mallmann-Showell, Wolfgang Hirschfeld and Walter Cloots in the mostly demolished Elbe II U-boat bunker in Hamburg.

    The Elbe II bunker is located on the southern bank of the Elbe river at the Vulkanhafen. This area is within the Freeport of Hamburg and to access it you should have to present your passport."

    http://uboat.net/history/hamburg_elbe2.htm

    hmm, would be a crime worth to steal this boats by night with some explosives to clear the way :)

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    a crime? no, we are saving and liberating these boots. Then we restore them and hand them over to a museum.
    Or we could keep then and start our own naval warfare. :smok:
     
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    Yeah, we can seize bloody cargoships somewhere in asia, would be an easy job for us, breaking the surface and the backbone of the ships (if they don´t like to cooperate^^), hiding on a island somewhere in the South Sea and share the money with the poor. :eek: :D

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    Robin Hood on a submarine, eh? What happens when the world's ASW forces come after you?
     
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    You'd be plain flat annihilated, thats what would happen. :kill:
     
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    I guess, then I´ve to change the branch of business for a while, modelling
    toy-subs somewhere in a workshop of a jug in indonesia for the next ten years :D

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    Che.
     
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    First we sink some cargo ships, use the money to by better equipment like a modern sonar, installation of a nuclear reactor (we just dock in a chinese or korean port for that one :cool: ), better torpedo's, etc.
    Then i would say, let them come. we sink the ASW forces and become masters of the indian and pacific oceans. :smok:
     
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    Gee, Quillin, why don't you just have phaser banks mounted while you're at it? ;)
     
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    I considerd that option but i can't find a store that is willing to sell them to me :D

    even better, instead of a ww2 submarine we can rebuild ww2 battleships. we fill them up with AA-missles and anti-missle-missles for defence and use the guns to blow up any ship that gets near. :cool:
    (very very wishfull thinking unless somebody has a couple millions, a shipyard to spare and the same dream of using BB's)
     
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    Ah, reality; where would we be without it? ;)
     
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    We can clear the Bikini Atoll, raising the saratoga, nagato, prinz eugen etc , so we are able to form our own fleet, not with one, three or five ships, no way man, with more then thousends ships (+some leased ships of the span. armada^^), however coz of the modernisation of all these ships we can´t share the money with the poor anymore. :D

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=lkBibp0ndcI

    and we will brink her back too xD

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    Che.
     
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    i'll already have found a captain

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    i dint think a pirate in a ww2 era diesel boat would would enjoy a very long career , the modern worlds worst equiped asw forces could find and destroy him in very short order
     

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