OK, faggots, give me your best most cost-effective plan to turn your average container ship into a destroyer/cruiser or even a carrier.
Don't know if there is a similar thread though.
Honestly, this idea seems more viable than building actual battleships at the moment. Just go outta the sea, capture a bunch of container ship home then militarize them.
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Obviously the cheapest option is to have the container ship lower motorboats into the water. Said motorboats will be remote controlled and full of explosives and/or bricks of potassium that will ignite upon contact with sea water. Then just ram the motorboats into things. If it's cheap enough you can even just ram cargo ships into stuff to destroy just about any naval ship currently out at sea.
But motorboats are easily killed by CWIS or the like.
It's called an "escort carrier". They were used in and around World War II. Commercial Ships are too slow to be viable for anything militarily but escorting other commercial ships.
Are they still too slow, the modern day version?
It's been a long fuck time since WW2.
Faster container ship can reach 30 kn very slowly. The average commercial speed nowadays is around 20 - 25 knots. I think an armed container ship would be viable only as a suicide surprise attack.
just put missiles on it
bam done
You dumb nigger.
Container ships average 10 to 15 knots. You want to put expensive weapons on a ship 200 - 300 meters long, 40 meters tall, with a speed of 15 knots.
Only when empty and with top-tier engines. A loaded ship will not go above 16 knots.
Also, even with an unloaded ship, their turning speed is still abysmal.
Can we re-use the frame but upgrade the engine?
I dunno if that should be more cost effective than building a brand new ship.
Upgrade to what? Merchant ships have the biggest engines out there. I don't think even aircraft carriers' engines can compete.