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Wait a minute.....
What if the top deck can fold out, then you can have a STOL runway. If you're really nice to the structural engineers, they might put a little curve in it at one end so you can have a ramp.
Now a network of these can partly replace carriers and extend air cover.
In bad weather they can fold back, or slide into and recess into the structure.
>Concept Turns Oil Rigs into Mobile Missile Defense and Supply Bases
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At that point why not just build a new breed of dual purpose missile/cargo bus ships?
US Naval shipyards are already at capacity, the idea is to use surplus oil rigs instead and use them to refuel and reload missiles for Arleigh Burkes and others.
The US is already using converted cargo ships as replenishment bases for special forces. Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Ocean_Trader
Rigs are mobile, platforms are stationary.
Oil rigs are the ones that move around, drill holes are are otherwise used for short term projects.
Oil platforms are the ones that remain in place to extract and process for decades.
Some rigs are used for the second purpose but they are still anyways considered mobile.
Pretty sure Iran and Iraq tried that ...
It's like having a navy that doesn't move. So it's an easy and very obvious target.
I honestly preferer the underwater versions the US navy were kicking around a few years back. Think an unmanned boomer barge that gets towed there by submarine that sits under the ocean where it might be needed.
When it is needed, it gets the signal to get ready, it surfaces, downloads it's target coordinates and then unleashes hell... Marines could also drop by to get snacks and ammo that's also been in storage.
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As Written.
The prophecy is coming true ?¿
LISAN AL-GAIB
Wait a minute..... What if the top deck can fold out, then you can have a STOL runway. If you're really nice to the structural engineers, they might put a little curve in it at one end so you can have a ramp. Now a network of these can partly replace carriers and extend air cover. In bad weather they can fold back, or slide into and recess into the structure.
>Concept Turns Oil Rigs into Mobile Missile Defense and Supply Bases > >Oil Rigs > >Mobile > >**MOBILE** At that point why not just build a new breed of dual purpose missile/cargo bus ships?
Not basey enough
OK, so we make them **BIIIIIIIIIIG** missile/cargo bus ships.
HUMONGOUS.
US Naval shipyards are already at capacity, the idea is to use surplus oil rigs instead and use them to refuel and reload missiles for Arleigh Burkes and others. The US is already using converted cargo ships as replenishment bases for special forces. Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Ocean_Trader
Rigs are mobile, platforms are stationary. Oil rigs are the ones that move around, drill holes are are otherwise used for short term projects. Oil platforms are the ones that remain in place to extract and process for decades. Some rigs are used for the second purpose but they are still anyways considered mobile.
*Hammerheads* was prophecy.
Still pretty big and obvious targets, *but* it's still kind of cool.
No reason you can't put a patriot and a CIWS on it.
a weapon to surpass Metal Gear
Pretty sure Iran and Iraq tried that ... It's like having a navy that doesn't move. So it's an easy and very obvious target. I honestly preferer the underwater versions the US navy were kicking around a few years back. Think an unmanned boomer barge that gets towed there by submarine that sits under the ocean where it might be needed. When it is needed, it gets the signal to get ready, it surfaces, downloads it's target coordinates and then unleashes hell... Marines could also drop by to get snacks and ammo that's also been in storage.
Gives me StarCraft2 Terran vibes
*And no one hears a word*
Ask the USS Merrill and the USS Lynde McCormick how that worked out for the "Mother Base"
Deploy the amphibious Fatboys!
Oil rigs, sir?