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http://home.ripway.com/2004-5/111732/VerizonClassCutter.gif

This is the picture I drew, but I need some help with the specifications of ships, and other military vehicles. Any help would be wonderful, and inf anyone would like to maybe become a partner in some type of military hardware development (I draw, whoever else does the specs) I would be interested in working that out too.

Image hosted by Anglefire :P

Don't you love Angelfire? Here ya go.

http://home.ripway.com/2004-1/54396/Verizon_Class_Cutter.gif

And no, Angelfire and Lycos don't allow hotlinking (among many other hosts...oh well, it's life) and you get this:

http://www.angelfire.com/hero/kyle0485/Verizon_Class_Cutter.gif

does it not work?

hmm... interesting

oh, well poo

freepichosting.com

It's awesome. Just a quick download.

ok, well any comments on the picture?

Looks like the rear of the ship is severely underpowered. Try something like...

http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/421499562/0.jpg

It's a cutter, helipad in the rear by the looks of it. Don't worry about the helicopter, cut and paste a Seahawk line drawing if you have to...but since it's a cutter, it doesn't need a load of firepower. A couple of five-inch guns and perhaps Mark 50 torpedo tubes would do; maybe a quad canister Harpoon. Then, I don't know much about ships.

ok, what exactly do you mean by it looks underpowered. Because even though I tried, its not exactly to scale.

yeah, its supposed to be a helipad, but I couldn't draw the helicopter.

bump, also does anyone have a hosting site?

Try ripway.com. I'm hosting that pic for you at the present using Ripway.

'Tis nice... Is it's secret weapon flooding the enemy with Angelfire errors?

No really man, it's good. Did you do it in MS Paint?

no I drew it using jasc paint shop pro.

Bumping so yall can read what I edited onto the first post.

bump again

I'm interested, what class of ship is it, and can you give me some details?

It is bsically just a cutter, that I modeled (sp?) after some of the U.S. Coast Guard's ships. I kinda wanted it to have a little more firepower that other cutters, so it could harrass supply lines, or blockades, while not losing much speed to the extra weight of the guns. It should have two like small medium sized guns, Just nothing too big, since it is only about 300 ft long, and maybe a couple extra small caliber guns or something. If it is possible I would like it to be somewhat fast for a ship its size. It should also have some decent detection systems in it, but nothing too fancy. It should be somewhat cheap and easy to make.

I hope that gives you some idea of what I need, and if not, just TG me and Ill tell ya what you need to know.

Looks somewhat along the lines of my Eva and AMria class vessels (very slightly upgunned versions of the 4000ton deep water vessel).
For guns you are most likely looking at 76 or 57mm guns, for 2 seperate turrets i would probabaly go for 2 76mm OTO melera (in either compact or super rapid format).

A couple of multirole CIWS turrets would be nice (simialr to the millenium gun system that engages both air/missile and small surface threats).
A light missile system like RAM or the navalised mistral might be a further nice addition.

ok, thanks

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