Cold Waters | 2000 Campaign | USA vs. China - 14 - Soviet Strike Fleet

[@luked7525]

20:35 So glad you asked! That is an Iwo Jima Class LPH! They were US Navy Amphibious Assault Ships, built as Heli-Carriers and sometimes operated Light Carriers for Harrier VTOLs My grandfather served on the USS Tripoli LPH-10 while attached to one of the USMC Aviation squadrons (I believe HMM-165) attached to the ship. They were very important ships for the USN, giving valuable service, testing new technologies, and serving as a base from which modern Amphibs are derived. I've always had a love for these little ships, and Tripoli was the only one I ever saw in-person! They were about 18,500t fully laden and measured 592' in length. They had fairly long service lives, the Iwo Jima herself commissioning in 1961 and the USS Inchon decommissioning in 2002. With the exception of the Iwo Jima (Scrapped in 1999) they all survived into the 20th century. The final ship of the class was actually the Tripoli, which lasted until 2019 after spending her post-decommissioning years as a mobile launch platform for ballistic missiles defense systems.

[@gingersonnyboy]

Really enjoyed the playthrough, and I'm hyped to start watching your Sea Power series. Have loved Wolfpack's vids, but you're the dude I'm most looking forward to seeing play the game I'm most excited to play myself

[@chrismckeever4976]

looking forward to Sea Power!

[@johnbrickel6446]

How deafening loud this would be to those whales

[@TortugaPower]

Where is PETA?

[@wally4395]

As usual enjoyed this. Good luck with Sea Power. I'm really looking forward to your play-throughs.

[@Hawkathon]

This the first time I’m ever seen an Akula , or any submarine other than a Typhoon, not immediately sunk by 1 torpedo (even Xias and Deltas only take 1). I think there’s some random damage model worked in so sometimes a Typhoon will be sunk with 2 torpedoes and sometimes (usually) it takes 3. What I suspect happened is the ADCAP hit the Akula and RNGesus (😊) decided that it would take 99% damage rather than 100%. However, the Akula started flooding and once it got to a certain depth it imploded. I’ve seen this happen with Typhoons a few times. I’ll hit it with 2 torpedoes but it’s not sunk. The Typhoon starts descending to the bottom (it’s flooding internally) and then once it’s almost at the sea floor it implodes.

[@jamesturner9651]

Really looking forward to you giving Sea Power a go. I wonder if the Akula was hit and was taking on water, and then later sunk.

[@FukaiRei27]

Seawolf is best

[@Arks1103]

Wow! nice war crime. Love it but hate it. LOL Also the fact that the Akula did not sink immediately after being hit by an ADCAP further strengthens the fact the Akula indeed needs 2 lightweight torps or 1 lightweight and 1 heavyweight torps to sink, just like it was in the previous episode.

[@CaptChang]

Why do you only launch one torpedo at a time when Seawolf can control 8 torpedoes at once?

[@TortugaPower]

Seawolf only controls 4 torpedoes (4 wires) at once