A photograph to ponder.

I can neither confirm nor deny anything....

If it looks like a duck,

Quacks like a duck,

Then it must be:  the new stealth technology for naval architecture

ALERT!

  This was just sent to me from an special unnamed source. Looks to be a new compact version being loaded for trials at an undisclosed location.    

mississippivol

I'll wait for the CAD rendering...

 

...............and one more reason to "surrender" to the idea of buying a 3D printer..........

allan

 

 

jtilley

 

 

 

 

 

Battleship 2:  The Duck of Death

 

 

 

.......and all along I thought it was this guy.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vscLrMD_qY

Bish

To my American friends, don't get to excited. This is actually the Royal Navy's newest addition to the fleet on its first round the world cruise.

Its all we can afford.

 

I've got news for ya..............with all the interest due on borrowing......we are in the same bath as the UK...........hence the rubber ducky............

Force9

Not even a chuckle? I guess I quack myself up!

 

Looks like everyone ducked responding.............

Yeah they are taking pre-orders for Easter 2016.

This fellow gets around. Here he is arriving in Hong Kong:

GMorrison

Oh Tilley shot that in the bath with his iPhone.

Naw, we  would have heard about the trials and trevails of scoreing decent plans for that 7500 HP tugboat :)  Plans for those tugs (and their 5000HP cousins) are not exactly thick on the ground.  The houses have a unique shap as the hulls are relatively flat for mounting Kort Nozzles or thrusters, so the enigine sits on the frame floors pokes up through the deck.  Then, there's an abreviated cabin forward.  Th bridge is then on a raised pylon for visibility.

I may have missed the Jane's listing for rubber duckies, though.

Oh Tilley shot that in the bath with his iPhone.

I double dog dare someone to do that as a diorama.   

It is a new class of stealth warship - the LCD or Littoral Combat Duck. Designed to operate in shallow and restricted waters - mostly bathtubs. Navy spokesman Lt. CMDR Jonathan P. Jones released a statement: "This new platform extends the reach of American Naval power into all the waters of the world. The LCD is based on more than 100 years of proven design in this environment and incorporates the most advanced technology possible.  The first unit is undergoing final sea trials and was brought in under the $10 billion budget with minimal time delays." No nation has an effective equivalent at this time, although both China and Russia have announced that they will launch their own versions in 2016 to counter the threat.

To my American friends, don't get to excited. This is actually the Royal Navy's newest addition to the fleet on its first round the world cruise.

Its all we can afford.

Naval version of the deceptive Trojan Horse.

The new kinder gentler Navy?

My wife is a former squid, she should get a giggle out of this.

jtilley

 

Battleship 2:  The Duck of Death

"Awww...it thinks the tugboat's its mama..."

Or it's the world's largest Marshmallow Peep!

(he says as he runs for cover!)

Randy

Time to throw out the bath water...............

"Hey, we found it last night floating just outside the yard."

Is there a Trumpeter 1/350 kit of it?

Everything's just ducky, but we forgot to paint it grey.............

Hmmm- a new secret weapon?  It gets the opposing force laughing so hard they cannot concentrate on doing their jobs?

Qwackers!