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MOTORLOON1993 said:
^I wonder if you could hook that up on the rear axel of the lorry.:)
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How would you start the engine up? You don't exactly use a car starter motor so spin 30 tonnes of pistons and crankshafts :D
 
You fill it up with dynamite to start it.
 
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^I really like art like this; it challenges you to think and imagine, and is not mired in pretentiousness and elitism you find with other abstract artists.
 
jayhawk said:
^I really like art like this; it challenges you to think and imagine, and is not mired in pretentiousness and elitism you find with other abstract artists.
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x2. I wouldn't mind using some of those as wallpapers actually.
 
Magnet said:
-Ridiculously large engine-
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Mercedes Titan <3

Those machines deserve a thread alone!

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I'm quite sure if they bothered trying it could quite literally move a mountain.
 
nsx_23 said:
Hmm, as much as I love big battleships and aircraft carriers, I've always wondered about their role in modern warfare. Especially aircraft carriers, which always need to operate with a fleet of other ships around it and appears to me like a big floating target.

With aerospace tech evolving at such a phenomenal rate, it seems to me that these days jet aircrafts can pretty much take over the traditional roles of destroyers and aircraft carriers thanks to ever-improving range, heavier firepower, increased stealth and advanced electronic sensory systems.
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Part of it is not putting all your eggs in one basket. If the carrier had all the radars, missiles and support systems to run a modern air defense suite it would be even larger, heavier, slower, much more expensive and might not be able to launch and recover aircraft while the big, powerful air defense radar is operating. If any of those defensive systems break then the carrier is defenseless. By putting systems like Aegis on cruisers and destroyers you can provide redundancy in protection for any high value ship (Carrier, Amphib, ect), 2 Aegis ships can provide more radar coverage and a more in depth defense sphere than a carrier equipped with the same system and move the high powered radar away from sensitive aircraft electronics. Those 2 ships will can do other missions the carrier can't either, such as hunting down submarines with hull mounted sonars, towed array sonars and on board helo's, the carrier is to big and noisy to do that.

The small boys are the hardest working ships in the fleet, who do you think does all the maritime security missions, pirate hunting, fire support (go look up "5 inch Friday"), general escort duties and shows the flag in ports to small for carriers? Not aircraft.

Ships can carry heavier, more powerful electronics and weapons than an aircraft ever could and they can do that while remaining on station as long as they are needed for less cost.
 
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Shaman said:
That's nothing compared to this...

Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C
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which powers this...
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12 cyl inline engine developing 90,000 HP at 100 rpm
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That's nothing compared to that engines big brother, the 14 cylinder version

Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft ( 7595222 Nm) at 102rpm

" Even at its most efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour."

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