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It's time to stop this stuff.

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Well then, I give you a KV-2




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A picture of a Female that is not wearing clothes - it is a historical picture . . .
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A picture of a Female that is not wearing clothes - it is a historical picture . . .
You may very well call it a female. I call it a tank. [:)]
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Personally I am not a fan of these ships. The gap between the funnel and the bridge looks odd, and the lack of a main turret at the rear gives a lop-sided appearance a la the Nelson's. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.

However, I suspect that you agree that the ship in the picture below is a grand looking battleship. At least from this angle. [:)]

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Two more that fell out of the ugly tree. Grant and Lee.

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Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee. [;)]
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Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee. [;)]

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Personally I am not a fan of these ships. The gap between the funnel and the bridge looks odd, and the lack of a main turret at the rear gives a lop-sided appearance a la the Nelson's. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.

However, I suspect that you agree that the ship in the picture below is a grand looking battleship. At least from this angle. [:)]

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Yes I would agree that from this angle she looks fine.... but I think all angles need to be taken into account, and from side on, she is just not a good looking warship to my mind.
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Well then, I give you a KV-2

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I know little about tanks. Why was that oversised chunk of metal considered necessary in the KV-2's design?
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Well then, I give you a KV-2

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I know little about tanks. Why was that oversised chunk of metal considered necessary in the KV-2's design?

I think it was due to the 152mm howitzer it had rather than the 76mm of the KV-1.


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Well then, I give you a KV-2

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I know little about tanks. Why was that oversised chunk of metal considered necessary in the KV-2's design?

A 152mm main gun and the German 88mm AT shells bounced off the armour.
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Ah, the "ranger" joe. Uou speak with a forked tongue. The worst violator of standards in your verbose posts. Hard to imagine that you can honestly criticize another with your demonstrated abuse of what is now allowed.

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A picture of a Female that is not wearing clothes - it is a historical picture . . .
You may very well call it a female. I call it a tank. [:)]

It is a Female tank!

Here is a picture of a hot bikini . . .
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Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee. [;)]

If you'd been in the 8th Army in May 1942, anything with a 75mm gun would have looked gorgeous to you.

They ruled in the desert in Afrika during that summer and they were very effective in the Burma theatre.
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She may not have been the biggest nor the most famous, but the USS North Carolina will always be my favorite because she was the first warship I ever toured. The first of the new generation of USN fast battleships in WWII, she had an impecable service record in the Pacific...and she had an ice cream machine [8D]



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If the contest is most beautiful BBs THAT STILL EXIST then the USA wins by default. USS Texas:

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She may not have been the biggest nor the most famous, but the USS North Carolina will always be my favorite because she was the first warship I ever toured. The first of the new generation of USN fast battleships in WWII, she had an impecable service record in the Pacific...and she had an ice cream machine [8D]

Still a beauty, and it still has a Kingfisher scout plane. You can easily spend a full day touring that ship.
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One more:

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