Ironguns
Ensign
Posts:104
 | | 20 Feb 2010 05:53 PM | | why not have some kind of a barbed grapplin hook? Or just plan a lot of hooked lines that tangeled ships up when they were close enuff to get hit by the piton rods?
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Knight4hire
Captain
Posts:885
| | 20 Feb 2010 09:36 PM | | That sounds dangerous to handle!
I want to build something that will sink a ship. | | | I am from the Government, and I am here to help.
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Ironguns
Ensign
Posts:104
| | 21 Feb 2010 05:24 PM | | like a deadly whirling lawnmower blade of doom fixed to the bottom with batteries on land and a wire that goes out? that way to remove it, u just cut the power and pull it out. | | | |
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JKN
Ensign
Posts:211
| | 21 Feb 2010 06:57 PM | | This is what I think about the lawnmower blades.
Better of dropping a depth charge from a cessna:
1 depth charge would roll the ships over if not break them in half or atleast crush the hull.
2 it would be safer. | | | |
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totaldestruction
Ensign
Posts:133
| | 22 Feb 2010 09:59 PM | | Posted By Ironguns on 21 Feb 2010 05:24 PM
like a deadly whirling lawnmower blade of doom fixed to the bottom with batteries on land and a wire that goes out? that way to remove it, u just cut the power and pull it out.
That sounds quite dangerous lol? also, how would the ships hit it if it was at the bottom + It could get entangled in weeds/foot cut hazard. I think that we would need something small anyway, not a massive lawnmower blade. It would be nice if you had something that could dig into the ship (almost like a fishing hook but not sharp) so that it would have to take a rip to escape unless they stayed stationary. maybe. Just a thought thats meh. I cant think of anything else right now. | | | |
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Kotori87
Rear Admiral (RADM)
Posts:2279
| | 23 Feb 2010 02:01 AM | | Keep in mind that at least part of a mine's purpose is to be concealed, as well. A whirling lawnmower blade (and many of the other suggestions here) aren't very sneaky at all. You might as well put out some anchored buoys and say "don't sail here". | | | There are 101 different types of people: those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who just can't count... | |
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Ironguns
Ensign
Posts:104
| | 12 Mar 2010 01:22 PM | | no, i was using lawnmower as an anology, just mabye 2-3 inches in diameter, and fixed to the bottom with its axis but reeally about 1 inch below the surface. If u streamlined t, the surface disruptuin would be unnoticable. | | | |
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Knight4hire
Captain
Posts:885
| | 31 Mar 2010 03:37 PM | | Still working on my idea.
I am using hearing aid batteries to power the coil.
The mine keeps getting bigger! UGH!
Back to the drawing board again... | | | I am from the Government, and I am here to help.
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totaldestruction
Ensign
Posts:133
| | 01 Apr 2010 10:36 AM | | Why not put the batteries in the mines weight with the string becomeing a wire that goes to the mine.  | | | |
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Knight4hire
Captain
Posts:885
| | 02 Apr 2010 08:16 AM | | In my design, the batteries are the ballast.
But that is a thought. Have a remote battery pack to power a string of mines....
That way I can arm/disarm the whole string of mines at the battery pack, instead of one at a time.
Interesting... Thank you. | | | I am from the Government, and I am here to help.
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totaldestruction
Ensign
Posts:133
| | 02 Apr 2010 11:36 AM | | Your welcome | | | |
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fastgunner 95
Midshipman
Posts:4
| | 30 May 2010 01:18 AM | | what if you have a mousetrap type contraption that has a trigger sticking up that the ship would hit, causing a spike to swing up into the ship and a buoy to be deployed for recovery? | | | |
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Knight4hire
Captain
Posts:885
| | 01 Jun 2010 03:04 PM | | Took a break from the Bis / Tirps build.
For a good punch I found that I needed more power.
Thus forced me to put the batteries in the anchor.
The anchor line is the wires from the battery pack to the mine.
The only part that is above the surface of the water is a short rod with a small hoop on the end.
Pulling on the rod diables the mine and is the way it is recovered after the sortie.
Thus no one should be grabbing the business end of the mine.
The bullet shaped projections will sting, but will not punchure the skin.
Will post some photos when I have a chance. | | | I am from the Government, and I am here to help.
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