Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

OT: HMS Invincible up for sale

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> OT: HMS Invincible up for sale Page: [1] 2   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 2:32:06 PM   
Lomri

 

Posts: 232
Joined: 2/6/2009
Status: offline 		http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/11/29/just-in-time-for-the-holidays/


Now you know what to ask for for Christmas! If you buy over $50 it is free delivery. That helps, the engines are stripped out already.
Post #: 1
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 2:42:35 PM   
crsutton


Posts: 9590
Joined: 12/6/2002
From: Maryland
Status: offline 		I would buy it but who could afford to pay the utility bills......?

_____________________________

I am the Holy Roman Emperor and am above grammar.

Sigismund of Luxemburg

(in reply to Lomri)
Post #: 2
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 3:00:37 PM   
Dixie


Posts: 10303
Joined: 3/10/2006
From: UK
Status: offline 		Yeah, but then you'd have a carrier with no no aircraft to fly from it.  And who'd be daft enough to do a thing like that?.........

_____________________________



Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to crsutton)
Post #: 3
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 3:08:12 PM   
Schanilec

 

Posts: 4040
Joined: 6/12/2010
From: Grand Forks, ND
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Yeah, but then you'd have a carrier with no no aircraft to fly from it.  And who'd be daft enough to do a thing like that?.........

Someone like me. A couple of years ago the DOD sold me a ICBM launch control center (Juilet 0). Couldn't turn it down. They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.

_____________________________

This is one Czech that doesn't bounce.

(in reply to Dixie)
Post #: 4
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 4:11:35 PM   
steamboateng


Posts: 354
Joined: 3/21/2010
From: somewhere in Massachusetts
Status: offline 		It was this ship, or her sister, which was docked several hundred yards away from my clunky tanker, in an Oman port in 2002. Quite freindly crew. Lifted a pint or two with the lads, at the little 'western' compound on the hill outside the port gate. My ship was acting as a floating gas station for B-1 bomber unit at the time. This was also the first and only time I got to see the 'Rising Sun', which was flying from a Japanese cruiser anchored across the quay.

_____________________________


(in reply to Schanilec)
Post #: 5
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 4:49:02 PM   
Rob Brennan UK


Posts: 3685
Joined: 8/24/2002
From: London UK
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: steamboateng

It was this ship, or her sister, which was docked several hundred yards away from my clunky tanker, in an Oman port in 2002. Quite freindly crew. Lifted a pint or two with the lads, at the little 'western' compound on the hill outside the port gate. My ship was acting as a floating gas station for B-1 bomber unit at the time. This was also the first and only time I got to see the 'Rising Sun', which was flying from a Japanese cruiser anchored across the quay.



From witP play you didnt get 'itchy trigger' syndrome ?

_____________________________

sorry for the spelling . English is my main language , I just can't type . and i'm too lazy to edit :)

(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 6
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 5:01:10 PM   
steamboateng


Posts: 354
Joined: 3/21/2010
From: somewhere in Massachusetts
Status: offline 		Actually, I was surprised to see the imfamous ensign. Being a child of the 'fifties' I assumed the Japanese naval mission was still defensive............never epected to see the Japanese battle 'colors' again. The ensign, and the ship, was quite impressive.............and in a way........spooky, even!

_____________________________


(in reply to Rob Brennan UK)
Post #: 7
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 5:25:16 PM   
Lecivius


Posts: 4845
Joined: 8/5/2007
From: Denver
Status: offline 		Makes for a great fishing boat!

(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 8
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 5:38:02 PM   
steamboateng


Posts: 354
Joined: 3/21/2010
From: somewhere in Massachusetts
Status: offline 		It's a shame to see Great Britain's fleet being dwindled down so. I assume Invincible's sale to the 'breakers' is an economic consequence of the times, or does Britain have a replacement in mind?

_____________________________


(in reply to Lecivius)
Post #: 9
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 5:42:41 PM   
AndyDuke

 

Posts: 34
Joined: 5/15/2010
Status: offline 		Two new fleet carriers, Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales due for 2014/2015 I think.

(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 10
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 6:01:23 PM   
FOW

 

Posts: 499
Joined: 11/6/2008
From: England
Status: offline 		Whilst the first (QE) is expected to launch around that time, commissioning will be a couple years later. The second (POW) has been 'delayed' due to economic spending cuts
Worst still the F-35 aircraft are not due to come into service until 2021
To cover the 10 years fixed wing naval aviation capability gap, the UK Government is negotiating with the French to "share" the Charles de Gaulle nuclear CV

and 1 in 4 of us civvies working with the military in the Ministry of Defence will loose our jobs in the next 4 years.

(in reply to AndyDuke)
Post #: 11
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 6:19:48 PM   
witpqs


Posts: 26087
Joined: 10/4/2004
From: Argleton
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: steamboateng

Actually, I was surprised to see the imfamous ensign. Being a child of the 'fifties' I assumed the Japanese naval mission was still defensive............never epected to see the Japanese battle 'colors' again. The ensign, and the ship, was quite impressive.............and in a way........spooky, even!


When I read your first post on this I took for granted you meant the red sun on white field - but you mean they actually were flying the rising sun flag (the one with the sun burst)?

(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 12
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 6:39:39 PM   
steamboateng


Posts: 354
Joined: 3/21/2010
From: somewhere in Massachusetts
Status: offline 		Yes, witpqs; not the meatball, the rising sun, which you are aware, is the battle flag. I have been to Japan several times in my earlier carreer, particularly the Sasebo and Yokusuka areas; never saw it then, that I can remember. It was quite a surprise to see it in 2002. A proud tradition, apparently, has kept that sun from setting.
Regards

_____________________________


(in reply to witpqs)
Post #: 13
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 7:35:16 PM   
witpqs


Posts: 26087
Joined: 10/4/2004
From: Argleton
Status: offline 		Wow! I sort of thought it had been outlawed for the Japanese military. Did you get pictures (I know they wouldn't be digital for posting here, I'm just curious if you got one for a keepsake)?

(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 14
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 7:45:37 PM   
steamboateng


Posts: 354
Joined: 3/21/2010
From: somewhere in Massachusetts
Status: offline 		Will the new CV's be standard design or the smaller type, as used by Harrier air craft.
The thumping of Lord Nelson's wooden parts against cathedral stone must echo loudly in Admiralty halls, every time the Chares de Gaul gently vibrates her stern through the English Channel.

_____________________________


(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 15
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 8:04:42 PM   
amatteucci

 

Posts: 389
Joined: 5/14/2000
From: ITALY
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: witpqs
Wow! I sort of thought it had been outlawed for the Japanese military.

The rising sun flag that was "outlawed" was the original Army version (with the 'meatball' in the centre) nowdays the JSDF uses a (slightly?) different flag, the Navy Ensign, that has the slightly offset 'sun' is still in use.

See the photos here:
http://budousha.jugem.jp/?eid=500

(in reply to witpqs)
Post #: 16
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 8:17:10 PM   
steamboateng


Posts: 354
Joined: 3/21/2010
From: somewhere in Massachusetts
Status: offline 		witpqs; I took pictures at the time but unfortunately never had them developed. The film is still around the house, somewhere. I also took pictures of the Brit flat top. I also got pulled over by Oman security for running around the place with a camera. I also got pulled over for questioning on my passport. etc., etc.
It was a quite memorable time, all in all.
I will check for the film and see if it's still good.
I'm sure seeing that flag flying over a Japanese warship will still send a chill to most. It was spooky!
I don't think it was outlawed. This wasn't a dinky 3 x 5 they flew; closer to 2 or 3 times that. The Brit carrier was in port at the time; maybe they were talking to one another.
At that time, we were warned (by US military) not show US colors.
Regards

_____________________________


(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 17
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 8:24:36 PM   
steamboateng


Posts: 354
Joined: 3/21/2010
From: somewhere in Massachusetts
Status: offline 		Yes, the 'Rising Sun' was centered somwhat below the horizontal center of the flag. Than you amattucci.
Now I just have to find those films.

_____________________________


(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 18
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 9:38:51 PM   
noguaranteeofsanity


Posts: 257
Joined: 11/24/2009
From: Sydney, Australia
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: steamboateng

Will the new CV's be standard design or the smaller type, as used by Harrier air craft.
The thumping of Lord Nelson's wooden parts against cathedral stone must echo loudly in Admiralty halls, every time the Chares de Gaul gently vibrates her stern through the English Channel.


They just changed their order for the F-35s, from the VTOL F-35B to the conventional F-35C, that the US Navy will acquire and are now planning to install a catapult on the QE. This is probably to ensure compatibility with the French navy and perhaps also because there is some doubt about the F-35B, which has a much shorter range and is proving the most difficult and costly to develop.

(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 19
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/2/2010 9:46:25 PM   
Xxzard

 

Posts: 440
Joined: 9/28/2008
From: Arizona
Status: offline 		I for one am not too angry about military spending cuts. I would rather play games about old wars than have all the worlds' nations armed to the teeth ready to fight a new one.

_____________________________


(in reply to noguaranteeofsanity)
Post #: 20
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/3/2010 12:38:38 AM   
steamboateng


Posts: 354
Joined: 3/21/2010
From: somewhere in Massachusetts
Status: offline 		I supose if we put Pearl Harbor and 9/11 into our scrapbooks as simply 'bad experiences' we can all exchange our guns for butter.
But that ain't really how it works, now; is it?

_____________________________


(in reply to Xxzard)
Post #: 21
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/3/2010 1:09:42 AM   
bradfordkay

 

Posts: 8683
Joined: 3/24/2002
From: Olympia, WA
Status: offline 		No politics, guys.

_____________________________

fair winds,
Brad

(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 22
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/3/2010 1:50:50 AM   
steamboateng


Posts: 354
Joined: 3/21/2010
From: somewhere in Massachusetts
Status: offline 		My apologies.

_____________________________


(in reply to bradfordkay)
Post #: 23
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/3/2010 2:36:43 AM   
Xxzard

 

Posts: 440
Joined: 9/28/2008
From: Arizona
Status: offline 		I figured my statement was on that borderline.

I don't want to start anything.

_____________________________


(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 24
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/3/2010 3:13:19 AM   
steamboateng


Posts: 354
Joined: 3/21/2010
From: somewhere in Massachusetts
Status: offline 		You didn't start anything over here. I respect your views. It's the same coin in the air. We just call it different ways.

_____________________________


(in reply to Xxzard)
Post #: 25
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/3/2010 3:57:17 AM   
Xxzard

 

Posts: 440
Joined: 9/28/2008
From: Arizona
Status: offline 		Well said.

_____________________________


(in reply to steamboateng)
Post #: 26
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/3/2010 10:12:48 AM   
michaelm75au


Posts: 13500
Joined: 5/5/2001
From: Melbourne, Australia
Status: offline 		From memory, wasn't she up for sale just before the Falklands War broke out which gave her a reprieve?



_____________________________

Michael

(in reply to Xxzard)
Post #: 27
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/3/2010 10:42:59 AM   
sprior


Posts: 8596
Joined: 6/18/2002
From: Portsmouth, UK
Status: offline 		Yep, I can't remember if it was the Aussies or the Indians who she was being sold to. The Herpes was about to be scrapped too.

_____________________________

"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished."
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.



(in reply to michaelm75au)
Post #: 28
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/3/2010 12:11:19 PM   
Dixie


Posts: 10303
Joined: 3/10/2006
From: UK
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: sprior

Yep, I can't remember if it was the Aussies or the Indians who she was being sold to. The Herpes was about to be scrapped too.


She would've gone to the Aussies.

< Message edited by Dixie -- 12/3/2010 12:13:30 PM >

_____________________________



Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to sprior)
Post #: 29
RE: OT: HMS Invincible up for sale - 12/3/2010 1:18:43 PM   
traskott


Posts: 1546
Joined: 6/23/2008
From: Valladolid, Spain
Status: offline 		It will be rhe gift of the christmas edition of witp ae???

(in reply to Dixie)
Post #: 30
Page:   [1] 2   next >   >>
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> OT: HMS Invincible up for sale Page: [1] 2   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

1.625