>>41895094
>[x] SS-257 Harder

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>>41895094
>[ ] Bat flight leader

>>41895094

>CONCLUDE

LIKE FUCK. YOU UPDATE SO SLOW WE'RE GONNA BE HERE ANOTHER FUCKING MONTH.

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[x] SS-257 Harder
...

>>41895094
>[ ] Bat flight leader

>>41895131
Closer to the truth than I would like.

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>>41895131

I UPDATE LIKE YOU FUCK, "CORPORAL."

>>41895094
>[ ] Bat flight leader
Pls be okay ;_;

>>41895094
>[ ] SS-257 Harder

[X] Admiral Settle

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>>41895133
>filename

>>41895094
>[ ] Admiral Settle

>>41895094
>[X] Bat flight leader
Air view. Planes for the Planefag!

>>41895094
>[ ] SS-257 Harder

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>>41895150

Thanks for reminding him, Cheeki Greeki. Just what I fucking need, find more of those patches stuck to the corkboard in the office spelling out "FUK U." I'm sure Naka ordered him two crates of them just to fuck with me. Whoever put velcro on them should go and french kiss a blender.

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>>41895094
[x] Admiral Settle
our shipsluts are deeeaaad!

>>41895094
>[ ] Bat flight leader

>>41895094
>[x] Bat flight leader

Moar planes!

>>41895094
>[ ] SS-257 Harder

AND CHECK YOUR FUCKING TWITTER, YOU KAWASAKI H6KFUCKING JERK HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU IF YOU DON'T RESPOND.

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>>41895271
>AND CHECK YOUR FUCKING TWITTER, YOU KAWASAKI H6KFUCKING JERK HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU IF YOU DON'T RESPOND.

>>41895094
>[x] Bat flight leader
gotta know if this motherfucker lived or not.

>>41895094
>[ ] Bat flight leader
Please be ok

>>41895094
>[X] Bat flight leader

>>41895094
>[x] Bat flight leader

>>41895094
>[X] SS-257 Harder

>All these faggots wanting to read about planes in a quest about ships

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>>41895271
>H6K Booty
Aim higher.

Reposting from last night-

The earliest wire-guided torpedo I found was the Mark 39, which entered service in 1946.
So, might be a late-war American boat

>>41895150

No. you fucking don't.

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>>41895133
at least you tried

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>>41895094
>[X] Bat flight leader

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>>41895345
>not wanting more planes
planes are better than boats faggot

Remember, ARIZONA LIKES SETTLE'S TORPEDO IN HER STERN.

>>41895094
>[x] SS-257 Harder
Let's finally see where our number one sub is.

>>41895150
Hard and leaving them wanting more, sir?

Incidentally, here's the recommendation for... Corporal(?) Hate's promotion to Chief Warrant Officer for fairy co-ordination, sir.

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HOHOHOHOH

YORKTOWN PLEASES OLD MEN IN HER ENGINE ROOMS FOR MONEY

>>41895094
>[ ] Admiral Settle
We arrive!

And while all view points would be more than acceptable, we would wish to see the Admiral.

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>>41895368

THIS WIT, I AM WOUNDED

Votes called for BAT FLIGHT LEADER!

>>41895345
>>All these faggots wanting to read about planes in a quest about ships

what if I could give you

BOTH

UPDATE INCOMING WWOP WOOP WOOOWOWOWOWWOWOOOOP

>>41895363

ATTAFRIKKINBOY ANON YES

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>>41895094
>[x] Bat flight leader

If this option wins, in return I will tell crazy stories about a set of Marine F-18 pilots I know.

>>41895444
It seems you might want to prepare your tale, my friend.

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>>41895420
In death, glory.

>>41895420

Lies don't fucking rate wit.

>>41895408
What is this. And I thought Yorktown sank?

>>41895094
[X] SS-257 Harder

>>41895501
... Has something happened, Corporal? You seem unusually terse.

>>41895508
That's CV-10. She's a Essex class.

CV-05 was sunk at Midway.

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>>41895420
>ATTAFRIKKINBOY ANON YES

Though
>Speed: 15.5 knots
We couldn't outrun it in a Virginia.
>Range: 1,300 yards
We couldn't hear the launcher in a Virginia.

Guys, I think the leveling effect might apply to torpedo range and endurance in extreme cases like this...

>>41895363
My source says Mk39 didn't enter service until 1956 but apart from that:

In operation the Mark 39 became a "bearing rider", that is, it was manually steered to keep it on the line of bearing from the launching submarine to the target. This form of guidance is not particularly efficient and it has other limitations among which are:

1) Only one wire guided torpedo at a time can be launched and controlled
2) During the run time of the torpedo, the maneuverability of the firing submarine is limited
3) Torpedo noise masks the acoustic signature of the target
4) The torpedo on the bearing line indicates the direction to the firing submarine

In spite of these limitations, the Mark 39 program clearly demonstrated the improved effectiveness of wire guidance against a maneuvering target.

>>41895094
>[ ] Admiral Settle

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>>41895538
He found out that Hornet took his last pair of ranger underwear before she sortied, and now its most likely been destroyed.

>>41895408
>Terminator sucks 20 dollars and a nickel worth of dicks.jpg

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>>41895094
[ ] Admiral Settle

>>41895569
Wiki's got it ending service in '56

But going off of what you said, that seems to match what happened. They fired two torpedos at us, but not at the same time- only after the first one detonated. That second torpedo was also on the same exact return bearing from the first.

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>>41895615

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>>41895408
>>41895587

>>41895408
>that ladderwell
>literal ladders as civilians understand them
Either that's the way down to a shaft alley, or old-school Navy vessels were even more ridonkeylous to get around than the one I served on.

>>41895583
Or perhaps he is concerned for Hornet herself.

>>41895408
>Using the "pleases old men for money" and not sneaking in a reference to Luvia

Kill yourself.

>>41895653

Why not both?

[ X ] Bat flight leader

>>41895731
He would never admit willingly to the second.

>>41895643
It's the ladder down the the engine room

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>>41895710
>he thinks a skeleton can kill themselves

>:ANGRY PILOT NOISES:
http://www.platigeshorts.com/paths-of-hate.html

>>41895402
I'm going to guess that you are doing write-fag work?

>>41895759
So, even worse to navigate than my old boat, got it.
We were the newest carrier in the fleet at the time, and the ladders down to our engine room were these really steep staircases instead of ladder-ladders. Also, I'm surprised nobody ran with the fact that "shaft alley" is a real term as a joke.

>>41895569
>>41895560
>>41895420
ACTUALLY WAIT FUCK I FORGOT THAT IT WENT ACTIVE
The Mk 39 only had passive homing, no terminal seeker.
...Could it have been the sub itself pinging?

>>41895094
>[ ] Bat flight leader

>>41895852

WE"RE IN A VIRGINIA, WE CAN TRACK THAT MOTHERFUCKER SO HARD WE'LL MAIL HIM MK48 ADCAPS WHILE'S HE'S ON THE CAN.

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>>41895899

>>41895094
>[X] Bat flight leader

>>41895133
Miss Naka, remember that Harder is very capable. He will return. Have faith in him.

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“Head-count,” you croak.

“Bat One-two, here.”

“Two-four, here.”

“Two-one, here.”

“One-three, here.”

One by one your Marines call in – excepting Two-Two, second flight leader's wingman. “Did anyone see Charlie go in?”

“Two-one here, saw him get hit, didn't see him punch out or go in. Maybe he's down there.”

Maybe. “Mustin's got the next wave on radar – anyone not Winchester, sing out now.”

Silence greets you.

“Bat Two-Two, you've got command. Take'em home. Maybe the tanker is still there.”

“Sir... yes sir,” your wingman confirms glumly, and the remaining six Marine F-18s turn for their tanker, and hopefully home.

“Bat flight,” comes that young feminine voice again – your air controller, for all intents and purposes. “What's your status?”

“RTB,” you inform her. “Out of ammo, out of fuel.” You line up on Fitzgerald, the distinctive crossed X's of her Harpoon launchers making her easy to distinguish, and pop flaps as you ease off the throttle. You remember it was escorting Akagi, making up for her meager AA armament with the most lethal array of surface-to-air weaponry ever afloat – that's the best spot to avoid getting run down by the rest of the fleet. “Bat One-One to battle group – I'm ditching near Fitzgerald.”

“What,” Hornet says blankly.

“Fuel exhaustion – too much afterburner. I'll never make the tanker.”

“Climb higher and bail out!”

“No can do, miss,” you reply, looking down at the floor – where the ocean is visible through a ragged, alarmingly big hole in the floor of your cockpit. One of Fitzgerald's Sea Sparrows must've detonated under you – the big kick-in-the-ass you felt. “I took a kicking; wrenched my seat on the rails.” Ejection is a harsh enough ride when everything works well; with the damage you've taken it'd almost certainly be lethal.

>>41895899
I'm pretty sure ships without boilers will be restricted to command support staff.

On that note however, HMS Victory > USS Constitution. Old Ironsides is fine, but she's no Victory.

>>41895813
Correct. I'm thinking either Royal Navy snippets or something involving the fairies. Maybe both.

Plus I'm just a tremendous faggit.

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>>41895133
Does this reduce the sad?
>>41895094
>[ ] SS-257 Harder

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“Bat lead, we've got another wave incoming,” the pretty voice says again, and this time you can hear the strain and agony in her tone. “We might not have time to fish you out.”

“Mustin? Her Seahawks survive?”

“Her helos are chasing a contact,” she says, and you sigh. You can't ask them to let a hostile sub in proximity to the battle group go – not even to save your life.

“Who are you, honey?”

“Hornet.”

“CV-8?”

“... yes.”

“My great-grandfather served on you,” he says suddenly. “Died when I was young, but... I remember he-” you shake your head. The blood loss is catching up with you; your hasty tourniquet could only buy so much time, and you've been borrowing it liberally for the last twenty minutes. “Hornet, it's been a privilege to fight for you again.”

“Just wait for us,” she replies. “It's not like the old days, I've read, we can leave a drone right over you and-”

“I'm bleeding out, Hornet,” you reply, lining up for your ditching run a few hundred yards off Fitzgerald's beam. “It's okay. This is what I lived for. I...” you chuckle. “I'm gonna be a unit legend, I think.”

Your vision is fading, and with the futility of your ditching attempt staring you in the face, you begin to wonder...

[ ] If I'm going to hell anyways, I want an honor guard. That surface force is only ninety miles away.
[ ] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.
[ ] I would have liked to see Montana. I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.

>>41895852

You finding the Mark 39 is good because it reminds people that a lot of WWII era boats went onto Cold War service, so any boats lost during the war would not have to reach far into the Leveling Effect to gain more effective armaments...

... but that torp *did* go active. There's some newer shit out there.

>>41895913
Yeah no shit we can pull it off I'm just trying to fucking ID what we're up against.
Actually, if it is the Mk 39 and it was on a bearing identical to the launching sub, then it would be impossible to distinguish sonar pings coming from one or the other, yeah? At least from our point of view. We'd just see the sound coming from the direction of one, which is also the direction of the other.
>Hard to starboard, launch a decoy, angle negative twenty on the planes
>I don't know what its chasing but it thinks we're about thirty degrees to port of where we are.
I'll be damned the bastard was pinging us himself while we were dealing with the torpedo

>>41896012
>[ ] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

>>41896012
>[x] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

>>41896012
>[ ] I would have liked to see Montana. I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.
;_;7

>>41896012
>[ ] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

>>41896012
>[ ] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

[ X ] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live

>[X] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

>>41896012
[x] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.
;_;7

>>41896012
>[X] I would have liked to see Montana. I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.

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>>41895980
>ditching
ruh-roh

>>41896012
>[ ] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

R I P

>>41896012
>[ ] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

>>41896012
>[ X] I would have liked to see Montana. I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.

It's hard not to fall in love with the big sky out there

>>41896012
>[x] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.
This one has the opportunity to lead to survival.

>>41896012
>[ ] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

>>41896075
>turboprops

have those fucking planes killed enough people yet

>>41896012
>[x] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

>>41896012
>[X] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.
DO NOT VOTE MONTANA. ABORT ABORT ABORT. The first became the Missoula, and the other two were fucking STILLBORN. Don't tempt fate you shits.

>>41896090
No not yet.

>>41896012
>[ ] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.
You are awaited in Valhalla! But not today!

>>41896038
>>41896039
Or, well, fuck. Time to do more digging

>>41896012
>[ ] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKYNJpNye8

>>41896090
What do you expect from a bunch of spinning blades to generate thrust?

>>41896012
>I'm looking forward to some Pineapple Salad

>>41896012
>[X] If I'm going to hell anyways, I want an honor guard. That surface force is only ninety miles away.
Do it, go out with a bang.

>>41896099

What in God's name are you talking about, anon

>>41896012
[X] I would have liked to see Montana. I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.

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>>41896090
Skyshark when?

>>41896012
>[ ] I would have liked to see Montana. I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.

>>41896099
By which I mean, the first USS Montana was renamed (and then decommissioned and scrapped), the second USS Montana was cancelled and scrapped before she ever launched, and the third was cancelled before she even had her keel laid.

>>41896173
Montana class BBs

>>41895982
>Old Ironsides is fine, but she's no Victory.

Yeah. For one thing, the Constitution still floats.

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>>41896012
[x] If I'm going to hell anyways, I want an honor guard. That surface force is only ninety miles away.

>>41896012
>I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

SELF PRESERVATION!

>>41896099
Would you mind explaining why we shouldn't go for Montana?

>>41896155
Oh God, he is going to crash into the enemy fleet in a last blaze of glory isn't him in this option?

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>>41896209
>>41896211
Pretty sure that's not the reference

>>41896233

Fucking Witness.

"I want to live" is such a bait option it's not funny. We're going to end up dying anyway and PTSDing Hornet.

>>41896209
I think he meant the state.

>>41896012
>[X] If I'm going to hell anyways, I want an honor guard. That surface force is only ninety miles away.

>>41896012
>[X] If I'm going to hell anyways, I want an honor guard. That surface force is only ninety miles away.

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>>41896209
>he hasn't watched Red October
Get out

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>>41895420
>>41895444
Damn, that was quicker than I expected...

I work in one of the rare places where Marines and Civilians mix on a regular basis. The clash of views leads to some weird conversations.

>"Hey Sargent, what are you and the rest of the ground techs going to do for Maine Day? You gonna have a party?"
>"Hell yes!"
>"Cool! You guys going to get a cake?"
>"No..."
>"Why not?"
>"Cake will make us slow and fat"
>"So what are you going to do?"
>"Drink"
>"Won't drinking make you slow and fat too?"
>"That's totally different!"


>Marine pilot is taking a video of his friend taking off on a training flight
>"Hey, what'cha doing that for anyway? You guys do this all the time."
>"You never take pictures of your friends doing cool shit?"

>"Ummm, Sir? LT. [redacted] can't get out of the bathroom"
>"Again?"

>"Hey, you guys are such good customers of ours we're going a cake for Marine day!"
>"Thank you, but we're going to mainly focus on drinking."
>"If you eat cake you won't get as wasted then."
>"You don't understand, we WANT to get wasted."

>>41896012
>[x]I would have liked to see Montana.I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.

Hopefully Helena will come up to catch us as we fall.

>>41896012
>[ ] I would have liked to see Montana. I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.

>>41896262
Nah, it wasn't stupidly hotblooded.

>>41896090
>>turboprops
Even better, it used a PW100 derivative. Not only do you have a turboprop, the 'turbo' part POINTS IN THE WRONG FUCKING DIRECTION.

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>>41896012
>[x] I would have liked to see Montana. I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.

>>41896288
>Thinks that Red October is historically accurate.
Here is a list of ALL USS Montanas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Montana

Anon (>>41896209) is right.

>>41896012
>>[X] If I'm going to hell anyways, I want an honor guard. That surface force is only ninety miles away.

>>41896012
>[X] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

>>41896012
>[ ] If I'm going to hell anyways, I want an honor guard. That surface force is only ninety miles away.

>>41896012
>[x] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

>>41896012
>[x] If I'm going to hell anyways, I want an honor guard. That surface force is only ninety miles away.
Witness.

Worst case scenario for I want to live option, hornet gets more trauma.

Or, best case hornet gets a new fairy. Because let's face it, bat lead isn't going to make it on a makeshift tourniquet and 20 mins of blood loss.

>>41896347
I would have liked to have seen Montana is an iconic Sean Connery line from Red October you cockfaggot.

>>41896377
Yeah or he might end up like Hate who should have died but DID NOT.

>>41896377
Even better Scenario - A ship from Montana comes to claim her proud son.

>>41896398
One Hate is enough. More than enough.

>>41896402
assuming it's not another flavor of losing the will to live.

How the heck is there a second wave? How stacked can two flight deck + an island be?

>>41896012
>[X] If I'm going to hell anyways, I want an honor guard. That surface force is only ninety miles away.
THE AMERICAN KAMIKAZE!

>>41896303

Why's that Hornet at the end of the line painted blue?

>>41896377
>makeshift tourniquet
That's a good fucking point: gotta keep those g-trousers inflated!

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>>41896396
Technically that was Sam Neil's line :-)

>>41896402
Montanas were never armed or even completed. Psure they aren't eligible for shipslut magic.

>[x] If I'm going to hell anyways, I want an honor guard. That surface force is only ninety miles away.

>>41896431
As nice as it is, we already got the upper hand. Scratched two flat tops and missiled the other. Now we can pick off the surface fleet who is helpless.

>>41896012
>>[x] I have no regrets... but god, I want to live.

Go forth. Burning your flicker life like a torch in the darkness.

>>41896439
>Sam Neil
You are correct, I fucked up. It's been a good while since I've watched it.

>>41896398

That's an infantry-only trick. Bat lead is on his fucking own there.

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>>41896038
Then in that case...
The Mark 44 had active sonar, but it was only used on surface vessels and aircraft. The Mark 45 had no homing also it was nuclear.
The next submarine-used torpedo with wire guidance and active homing is the Mark 48, at least as far as American ordnance goes. Probably Mod 1, but still.
Fuck.

>>41895832
>We were the newest carrier in the fleet at the time, and the ladders down to our engine room were these really steep staircases instead of ladder-ladders.
Isn't that the norm? Admittedly only been on the HMS Bristol and HMS Liverpool, but both had those everywhere, no 'regular' stairs or ladders.

>>41896427
The second wave IS the island.
First wave was the enemy carriers.
Second wave is from the island.
Their intent was to fuck us with both at the same time, but we managed to space them out barely by running

>>41896493
How about rooskie subs?

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>>41896432
Aggressor training. Similar to this one.

>>41896012
>[ ] I would have liked to see Montana. I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.

>>41896484
Infantry? I thought it was a Marine only trick.

The act of telling Death that you could not go because you did not have official leave to die, that is.

>>41896427
Not occupying the same airspace? Pretty fucking stacked.

Also? The last wave that hit us? That was from two flight decks. Iwo Jima has three runways.

>>41896524

This ship? This ship right here?

He/she/it/tentacles gets it.

>>41896519
That is very possible, and with the loss om multiple modern Russian submarines BEFORE the war then it isn't out of the question.

But that begs the question, a few of them were equipped with nukes, why not use them on the fleet and be done with it?.

Every fucking Nimitz in existence had better be scrambling its 100,000 ton ass into the pacific right now

>>41896516
All of our carriers are injured except the bitchy one, our air defenses are lacking, our CAP exhausted.

Shit.

>>41896444
Idiot.

>>41896568
We are going to have to lose a few girls aren't we?

>>41896587
Actually the bitchy one was injuried, Akagi's the nicer sister.

>>41896569
>tumblr

pls go

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>>41896524

Wing is different, and POGs just say that shit because everybody wants to be a grunt till it's fucking time to do grunt things.

>>41896587
Akagi is the one with the black hole stomach.

The bitchy one is Kaga, who's eaten two bombs and a torpedo.

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>>41896520

>dose palm trees
>dose mountains
>dat lazy layer of smog

You in California, anon?

>>41896217
Ouch. I probably deserved that though.

I could have sworn the HMS Victory is still commissioned and seaworthy though, if in drydock. I saw her fire off a broadside a few years ago.

>>41896012
>[x] I would have liked to see Montana. I want to go home one more time. Just one more time.

God dammit, marine...

>>41896612
That is better. Kaga and Hornet resting together in the dry dock bitching at each other will be fun to behold.

>>41896587
Our CAP is battered, but not exhausted.
Also if I remember correctly we still have some conventional birds coming to play, the F-22s

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>>41896584
>trusting Russia to not be filthy fucking Slav savages

>>41896590
ACR-13 renamed to the Missoula, then reclassified as CA-13.
BB-51 laid down in 1920, cancelled and scrapped in 23
BB-67 class cancelled in 43.

Try again fagget.

>>41896648

How far off are the Raptors? Do we have any F-35's on the way?

>>41896648
>Trusting F-22s.

Good point. Hornet's girls can probably refuel on the nip carriers.

So why did we only send 3 carriers? Why not a complement of all of our carriers? Fast Carrier Task Force probably got a few escort carriers on top of 3 fleet ones.

>>41896637
HMS Victory is still commissioned, I'm pretty sure that she's still floating.

>>41896648
In this situation, bar the use of multiple air to air tactical nuclear devices, those F22s aren't going to save us

>>41896681
No. You try again, retard.
Reread the post you were addressing.
Go on.
I can wait.

>>41896682
No F-35s in operational range.

But we do have P-8s with SLAM-ERs inbound to fuck the enemy sideways.

>>41896693
Drydocked, permanently.

>>41896245
Yay! Someone using the macro I made for that one specific reaction image exchange.

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Your friend is back – the Zero. He slides in front of you and leads you off to the right, further from the destroyer... but you follow him anyways. Mabye one of the kanmusu's floatplanes can pick you up (but they're a hundred miles away, returning from their scout missions, of course.) But you probably won't survive ditching, and you certainly won't last long bleeding out in a raft.

At least you'll have a friend, a wingman, when you finally go in. No man can feel alone with his wingman close by.

Charles Lindbergh – wasn't it Lindbergh? - said that if he had the choice between a long life, or ten years of flying and death in a crash, he'd take the ten years. To die in battle is a fate befitting a Marine. Facing death eye-to-eye, you can't say you regret following in your father's and grandfather's footsteps, nor will you weep when you are greeted by your ancestors, wherever they may be. You wonder if your great-grandfather is with Hornet now; one of those fairies piloting her planes. Aren't the shipgirls themselves proof that there's something after?

You're not afraid. But instead of goosing the throttle and angling away for one last attack against the abyssals, you continue your approach to the vast wet nothing below you. There's too much to live for, too much yet to see, too many battles unfought. You want to live, damn it. You want it so bad you can almost see it – you *must* see it, the outline of a Nimitz's deck, tricking your fading brain into thinking it's just another carrier approach, not a desperate last-ditch attempt to grab that fading ring. You want that damn deck so bad you can almost taste it. With your mic off, in the privacy of your cockpit, alone with God and minutes away from meeting him, you let yourself slip – just this one.

“Please,” you whisper. “Please.”

>>41896569
The Bentusi do not have tentacles.

>>41896621
Ah. Then it is regrettable that your airborne Marine colleague does not share your trick. He seemed a good man, from the little we saw of him.

We... regret the loss of his memories.

>>41896692
I believe that it was partly Goto's decision and that he felt we should not deploy all of our Carrier strength at the same time.

He was correct and wrong at the same time.

Mayhap the F-22s will arrive in time.

>>41896615
Really? ITS A BLOODY SHIP. I have NO fucking idea what runs that thing.

For all I know, motherfucker is some sort of purple-plaid-aquamarine 4d time horror from the great beyond.

EXCUSE ME FOR TRYING TO BE POLITE TO THE PERSONAGE WITH ORBITAL ARTILLERY AND THE SWEET, SWEET DUTY FREE SHOP.

We need to nicely ask the Russians for a Kirov. Those Shipwreck missiles would be very nice to have right about now - not to mention the SAMs.

>>41896682
>F-35s on the way

Yeah, in another five years and one or two billion dollars.

>Wire-guided torpedoes
The Germans had the T10 and T11 wire-guided torpedoes, but I think those might only have been shore-launched.

>>41896761

Marines don't die.

We're going to the afterlife to regroup. You fucking think Valhalla's a lie?

>>41896796
They live, they die, they live again!

>>41896748
...if we land on one of the shipgirls...

>>41896827
I think that we are a bit too big...

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And God answers.

Your hands freeze on the controls for a moment as you stare uncomprehendingly at the carrier deck stretched out before you; bright polished wood waiting to receive you. You begin to laugh – mind over matter. The blood-loss is accelerating, you're hallucinating – but at least your last landing will look good. Professional and shit-hot to the end.

“Green over red,” a sweet, gentle voice instructs, and you obey, working the pedals as ably as your shredded legs allow till the lights on each side of the carrier's fantail place the green ones right above the red. The hook deploys, then the gear – red light on the nose-gear. Not that it matters; you're landing on a mirage anyways. The voice and the lights guide you in, and when you finally lose sight of the deck beneath your nose you know this is it – the awful, yielding FWHOOMPH that will start the final timer on your life as you inflate your life preserver and try to pull yourself out – if the damaged canopy will even release. You want the solid, firm WHAM of wheels on deck, the solid kick in the ass that lets you know you've stuck another landing, you've done it once again, come home to everything that matters to you alive and intact -

- and it comes, the hydraulics squeaking as muscle memory hauls the throttle back against the stops. The nose sinks on the damaged wheel and ahead is a -

- you wake up to strong arms wrapped around your chest, a soft bosom against your back, the smell of cherry blossoms floating in the air as you fade.

“I've got you,” she's saying – that voice, so gentle. “I've got you, Marine.” She sobbing, wailing from somewhere deep within, and the last thing you remember is wanting to tell her it's all right.

You've done your job.

>>41896827
Bat lead becomes a fae

>>41896843
Hornet's a big girl.

>>41896847
God DAMN.

>>41896766
It is quite a nice shop, isn't it?

But do not fear, we have little care for gender pronouns. Most use masculine terms, as befit our voices.

The Unbound are, quite literally, unbound by petty gender distinctions.

>>41896796
As I have never died, I cannot know. But if your certitude is such, perhaps it is so.

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>>41896847
>>41896827

>>41896796
I think you don't have room to talk considering you've never been there.
Tell me Corporal, do you get those little umbrella drinks while you're waiting for 'redeployment'?

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>>41896634
Good guess.

>>41896847
Did we just become a fae?

Are we Hate 2, Pilot Boogaloo?

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>>41896847
A damn fine landing.

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>>41896847
What?

>>41896903
Miramar? Or Pendleton...

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>>41896847
noice

>>41896748
>>41896847
>The music timed up perfectly with the posts and me reading them
I'm not crying, you're crying

>>41896896
Ale, mead, and beer.

And I have been. But that's not a fucking story for now.

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Meanwhile, what actually just happened

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>>41896847

Witnessed

>>41896941
An F-18 landed on a carrier.
Nothing out of the ordinary if you don't think too hard

>>41896907
Yes and no. Apparently following that Zero allowed us to shrink. Right after the landing we then were ejected normal-sized into Akagi's warm embrace.

>>41896964
>entire plane disappeared

>somehow bat didn't go with it

>>41896847
WITNESSED

>>41896983
What did he say about thinking about it

>>41896903

I'm guessing...Miramar? It's been forever since I've been down there for the airshow, though.

>>41896971
Shipslut magic. How does it work.

>>41896847
You were saved, Marine. We hope that you live.

>>41896940
It sounds like a fine place.

>>41896971
It sounds like a fine place to be.

>>41896847
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT6LFOIofRE

Libera Me From Hell intensifies.

How would a Nimitz react to Akagi stealing her Hornets?

>>41896847
Akagi rescue huh. Now he's deadweight in the middle of a raid. This might still be bad.
Become a fae!

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>>41896996
>>41896983
>>41896964

>>41897022
>Bitch you can keep the jet but give back pilot

>>41896971
Was it Akagi? Or was it Hornet?

>>41897022
In the same way to Iowa would react to another shipgirl trying to get Hate.

Bring popcorn.

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>>41896971
>Yes and no. Apparently following that Zero allowed us to shrink. Right after the landing we then were ejected normal-sized into Akagi's warm embrace.

>my fucking face right now

>>41897022
It's not stealing as long as you give them back. Saving hurt/damaged/lost airmen is generally considered a good thing and rescuing parties thanked.

>>41897056
Look at the picture and then tell me.

>>41897061
My emotional decryption matrix must be malfunctioning.

What does that face mean?

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>Bats F-18 the following morning

>>41897061
Guess thats not the right track huh?

Heeeeey planefag, would mind terribly about some writefaggins re: Shipyards and the dumb bastards that work in them?

It's something of a family thing. Grandad made submarines in Manitowoc during WWII, and I proudly carry the tradition of making sparks for fun and profit.

Besides which, Crab cannot SERIOUSLY be the only welder in the whole of the Pacific that they have on tap, and bitches need to learn just how much fucking WORK goes into a keel.

>>41896847
Holy shit. I do not have any other words for it.

What the HELL just happened? I think this is proof that shipgirls are some magic bullshit that treats physical laws more as suggestions when she wants to.

Don't fucking even TRY and make ANY kind of sense of it. Bat Lead both did and did NOT shrink to fairy size, the same way those planes the girls launch are both the size of toys and also 1:1 with the real thing. Do NOT try to look at it, because your brain CANNOT comprehend it.

>>41897056
Cherry blossoms and a wooden deck anon. Plus the eater is the only one with a serviceable deck, ATM.

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>>41896847
YES Praise the Sun!!

>>41897089

ALL WILL BE REVEALED, IN TIME

So which option won? Montana?

>>41897118
No, that was I want to live.

>>41897098

When are more writefags ever not welcome?

>>41897116
Fair enough.

>>41897098

please do!

OKAY, WRITING

>>41897099

Around the girls, physics can go all to fuck. I hear it gave black science man a minor meltdown.

>>41897105
>>41897086
Ahh right.

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>>41897091
Out of all the writing the one that that gets me and would sting the most.
>must be air force

>>41897089

It means dank times soon, you crazy sentient spaceship thing.

>>41897130

[WRITEFAGGIN BEGINS]

>>41897056
>Led in by a Zero
>Didn't recognize the voice calling him in
>Picture of Akagi
Nigga you dense

>>41897099
Maybe Akagi got big?

>>41897139
Poor Tyson. He's a pretty cool dude.

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>>41896925
>>41897006
Nope. There are certain civilian airports where the Marines conduct training and even hold miniature airshows on occasion.

>>41896498
It's the CURRENT norm for most purposes, but we had actual ladders for the less commonly travelled ladderwells. And ladderwells that were traveled reasonably often but couldn't afford a wide enough space for stairladders, like the ones that went down to the shaft alleys.

>>41897116
... Hm.

So this is how it feels to be on the other side of the cryptic messages.

Fascinating.

>>41897139
>>41897164
I suspect Mr Degrasse Tyson is mostly excited by all the secrets the young ones reveal about the Universe.

Quite a few are known to the Bentusi Exchange, while others remain to be discovered.

They are fascinating.

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Damn, I'm late for the fleet!

TIME TO MAKE A DRAMATIC ENTRANCE THEN!

>>41897168
Shiny. Been a while since I've been in socal. I miss it terribly.

>>41897155

Just be sure to post your shit after this madness is all over and done with--which maybe in another thread or two.

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>Meanwhile, Mustin and Fitzegerald's lookouts' faces when

>>41897163
She might have gone into full ship-mode, like the abyssals do. The girls have full-sized wakes and I believe they're spaced at proper distances in formation to allow for it

>>41897259

Does that mean that her fae now have to take hornet training?

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/27GHFNyJ9rg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

>The music playing as Bat Lead makes his landing
>I have no idea how to do embedding

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Nimitz is fucking HUGE

>>41897306
>I have no idea how to do embedding
Clearly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27GHFNyJ9rg
Here.

>>41897259
Or maybe it's both. Like Shroedinger's Cat, but without a box.

>>41897306
Just post a normal link newfriend. The inline extension will let people embed if they wasn't.

>>41897306
To embed a youtube vid you have to post the URL into the comment like so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKhsTXoKCI

>>41896519
A-anyway, the earliest soviet wire-guided torpedo with active homing I found entered service in '69.

>>41897314
That means she has huge guts?

>>41897314

How high are the chances that the Nimitz carriers will be preserved as museum ships once they are retired?

>>41897340
>>41897346

Thank you. Though I'm such an oldfag I went partially retarded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27GHFNyJ9rg

When did they implement this feature? Because I don't remember being able to do this up until a few years ago.

>>41897384
Nuke powered. They might keep one around but the rest will probably be decommissioned.

Shit is expensive to up keep.

>>41897384
Probably pretty low, since Congress doesn't like history these days.

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>>41897314
Dat emergency maneuver tho.

>>41897337
I think that's exactly it. Quantum mechanics and magic really aren't too dissimilar. It'll drive you to madness trying to comprehend it, but somehow it all works and it had fucking BETTER, as the universe itself hinges on it working. The girls are like that: Inexplicable, but also fundamental - impossible to understand, but also the simplest thing in the world...

Kind of like most women I know, come to think of it.

>>41897384

Pretty fucking low. Enterprise is getting cut up as we speak; nuke reactors need to be disposed of, they can't sit around.

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>>41897404
Dat frilly Sheryl tho

>>41897404
Oh. Thought you were a migrant SBer. And I think 4chanX has had it forever. Moot added a ton of the same functionality 2 or so years back.

>>41897384
As I understand, not very good; it's hard to preserve a nuclear-powered warship, because you just about have to tear it apart and decontaminate the whole thing to decommission the nuclear power plant.

I'm hoping at least one of the supercarriers gets preserved, though. Tours through museum ships are incredibly cool; I went to the USS Midway a few weeks ago. I thought three hours would be enough to tour it: after all, it was "just one ship".

Turns out, there's something to that whole "floating city" thing.

>>41897384
Very low, the process of removing the reactors is...quite traumatic. At best, we'd probably get a flight deck and an island.

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You stick your scope up and take a sniff.

The first thing you see is the towering columns of smoke; little black dots of planes scooting around in it. You swear to yourself – making an approach with planes looking for your submerged shadow from above is a right nasty whore; but with the number of cruisers and shit in that fleet, there was little hope of avoiding that. With the number of hydrophones listening, you'd have to approach deep under the layer anyways.

The flaming wrecks of the NIP twins are a good six thousand yards aft now – and nobody else seems to be searching the area anymore. The escorts have rejoined the task force proper, at least several miles distant. From the smoke drift they seem to be steaming north again; instead of east like they were forced to during the recent air attack. You were still somewhat ahead of the convoy track when you first moved in, so you can still reach a firing position if you push – they seem to have slowed to fifteen knots or so at best, making it just feasible.

Scanning slowly with your attack scope, you pick up the wakes of fast-moving escorts, little sub-chasers or gunboa-

- you flip to 4x magnification to be sure. The color is striking, a sickly pale shade, like something once white tarnished and tainted. A short-barreled gun on the foredeck with no barbette, that two-tiered, railinged design -

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“You're a long way from the Yangtze, asshole,” you mutter. Behind it comes one of those ships so far gone that all vestiges of its original form are absent; some twisted ball with huge, burly arms of a sort curled around its middle. What an ugly pile of shit. Your tubes won't be reloaded for many minutes, but gunboats rarely carry sound gear. They're only a problem for skippers looking to make night surface attacks – unless its the Growler, in which case she's a problem for *them.* Dismissing traitordumb and wankledee, you keep panning -

“The fuck,” you say to yourself, noise discipline be damned. Not four thousand yards off is the shot-up remains of one of those big seaplanes you saw making that unescorted attack. It's missing the better part of a wing, but one engine is still working and its trying to motor away on the surface. A splash kicks up near it, and then another – the gunboats are opening fire on it from extreme range.

[ ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.
[ ] How about these cunts pick on someone their own fucking size? BATTLE SURFACE

>>41897528
>[ ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

>>41897528
>[ ] How about these cunts pick on someone their own fucking size? BATTLE SURFACE

i mean, why bother planefag, you know what /tg/ is going to pick

>>41897528
>[x] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

>>41897528
>[ ] How about these cunts pick on someone their own fucking size? BATTLE SURFACE

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>>41897528
>[ ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.
NO MORE FALLEN WARRIORS

>Not four thousand yards off is the shot-up remains of one of those big seaplanes you saw making that unescorted attack. It's missing the better part of a wing, but one engine is still working and its trying to motor away on the surface
TENNO HEIKA BANZAIIIII

>>41897528
>Yangtze

Chinese ship?

>>41897528
>[x] Sink the gunboats with torps before heading after the enemy Carriers.

>>41897528

>[ ] How about these cunts pick on someone their own fucking size? BATTLE SURFACE

>>41897528
>[ ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

>>41897528
>[ ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

>>41897528
>[X] How about these cunts pick on someone their own fucking size? BATTLE SURFACE

Prevent Time Paradox

>>41897528
>[ ] How about these cunts pick on someone their own fucking size? BATTLE SURFACE
CURRAHEE!

>>41897582
Big ass river.

Probably also a ship, but he's referring to the river.

>>41897528
>[ ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

We are a sub. Not a surface vessel. Do not get tangled up.

>>41897528
>[X] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

>>41897588
Torps aren't loaded

>>41897582
USS PANAY. Sunk by the Japanese during their attack on China in the 30s

>>41897098
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L24wo2N2o14
I imagine the fae at the LSC yard singing this

>>41897528
[ ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

Also: A disturbing thought occurs....
'And the Sea gave up the dead which were in it, and Death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.'-Revelation 20:13

>>41897528
>[X] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.
gotta make that shit count when it matters.

>>41897528
>[ ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

>>41897528
>The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

We have bigger fish to fry then a few gun boats finishing off a flying boat. Besides subs have piss poor durability in surface battles, no need to get us layed up in drydock, or worse sunk

>>41897528
>[ ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.
I hate to leave a man behind, but that flying boat isn't very important in the grand scheme of things, and the battle is not yet decided: if there is even a tiny chance of finishing off one of the cripples before it can launch another airstrike, it's got to be taken.

[ X ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

Killing hapless escorts may be fun, but do you know what's even better? Killing hapless CARRIERS!

>>41897588
Are they even deep enough to torp?

>>41897528
> ] How about these cunts pick on someone their own fucking size? BATTLE SURFACE

cant save everyone Harder

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>>41895150
>>41895240

I thought Nettle, Planefag, Demetrious, and Landing Gear were all the same person.

Did Demding Platle answer himself?

>>41897582
Some British, American and Japanese gunboats operated on the Yangtze. Some were sunk by Chinese gunfire.

>>41897528
>[x] How about these cunts pick on someone their own fucking size? BATTLE SURFACE

Let’s see how they like our deck gun.

Besides, those two whores should be able to manage a carrier apiece, assuming they're as good at launching torps as they are at taking them.

>>41897621
The Rapture cometh?

Rolled 5 (1d8)

>>41897528
>[X] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.
The seaplanes knew they weren't making it back. The carriers NEED to die.

>>41897484
>>41897528

>Riverine Gunboat Abyssals

I love you so much right now, planefag (no homo YES HOMO)

>>41897528
>[ ] How about these cunts pick on someone their own fucking size? BATTLE SURFACE

>>41897606
>>41897614
Ahhh, thanks good anons.

>>41897645
>Nettle, Planefag, Demetrious, and Landing Gear
HAHAHAHAHAHA

>>41897528
>[x] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

>>41897528
>[x] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

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>>41897645
>and Landing Gear

>>41897645
It's basically performance art, yes
>>41897528
>[ ] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.

>>41897588
>What is reading comprehension?
Harder's tubes aren't going to be reloaded for a few minutes. Battle surface will have him pop up topside to engage with the deck gun.
The whole point of the surface option is to kill the gunboats before they kill the seaplane. By the time the tubes reload, the seaplane will be dead...which negates the whole point of the surface action.

>>41897528
>[x] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.
They knew what they were getting into. The carriers are the priority.

>>41897528
>[x] The wounded carriers are that-a-way. This might be our only chance – if I fail now, someone in our task force might pay for it on the receiving end of another airstrike.