How potent would this be in WW2 if it was refitted by a major navy using tech of that era?What role would it be most effective in? worth using as a warship or for supplies/transport?400m long compared to battleships of the era which were between 200-260m (yamato) around 70000 kw of horsepower from the engines and a max speed of ~22 knots. Plus probably has a radar and advanced sensors.
>>65161784Too big for a time machine
just turn it into a big as fuck (for the time) aircraft carrier
>>65161788It worked with the fucking Nimitz it would work with this
I guess it's like that star trek movie where the bad guy goes back in time with a more advanced mining vessel and fucks everyone's shit up, but I think it'd still be vulnerable to torpedoes.
Large tankers can be used as floating oil tanks in forward anchorages. The Imperial Japanese Navy used large whaling factory ships in this way.Container ships require specialized cranes and vehicles for cargo handling, so they would not be very useful on their own.
>>65161784>worth using as a warshipNot in the slightest. There are significant differences in civilian and military ship construction. That ship wouldn't even slow a Fletcher down let alone stop it.>supplies/transport?Too slow for a fleet replenishment ship. Would be relegated to doing what it was built for between the mainland and Hawaii>fake carrierAgain, too slow and would end up like the Langley. Only be useful for ferrying planes which probably wouldn't be worth the conversion costs.
>>65161857>Too slow for a fleet replenishment shipIn WW2? No, a modern containership is like 10 knots faster than supplyships and fast oilers used to supply carrier task forces back then, so that would be no problem
>>65161857you could probably fit like 20 6 inch guns on it lol it would btfo a fletcher
>>65161784Are you going to send back a few dozen ports with cranes that can actually load it? And a few thousand shipping containers too?Because it still wouldn't be very useful, but the port upgrades would be.
A more interesting question would be what could a country do in WW2 if they invented and started using standardized shipping containers. Lend-lease would have been even more op.
>>65162800No harbor at that time can handle shipping containers. There's a reason transport ships of the era carry their own cranes on them.
>>65161801>for the timeVLCCs like the one shown are actually around 40 meters longer than even a modern carrier (though they are narrower)
>>65163336Though, now that I think about it they wouldn't be much use as a carrier anyway, since they have two superstructures that usually span the width of the vessel. Plus the lashing bridges would need to be removed, and the walkways between the hatch covers filled in...I don't know that there's really much they could do with one in the 40s
Since helicopters and twin-engine carrier-based aircraft used for transporting supplies appeared after the war, it seems unlikely that a supply ship with a flight deck would be built.
