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US Navy WW2 Functioning Replicas

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Description

USN Destroyer USS Mahan DD-364 (1936) 1:1 Replica in her pre-1941 retrofit configuration, with Measure 21 camo scheme.

UPDATE Sept 27, 2018: Added spotlights (turn on at 20:00 til 06:00, ACB's in bow) and additional spinblock'd propellers to bring the speed up to a bit more historical 20m/s (38~ knots, historically was 37 knots)

USS Mahan DD-364

USS Mahan (DD-364) was the lead ship of the Mahan-Class destroyers for the United States Navy, first of 18 (The last two are also referred to as the Dunlap-class subclass.)
The Mahan-Class ships were built from 1934-37 and served from 1936-46.
Mahan was laid down on 12 June, 1934.
She was part of a screening fleet for USS Lexington during the bombing of Pearl Harbour.
Mahan participated in various escort and screening duties in the Pacific Theatre, participating in the Battle of The Santa Cruz Island in USS Enterprise's screening fleet.
Mahan was sunk during a patrol off Leyte Island in 7 December 1944, when she was attacked by 12 Japanese bombers and hit thrice by kamikaze attacks.

Armament

-x5 5"/38 (12.7cm) Mark 12 Gun ~APHE Shell, Time Fuze -x3 Mark 12 Torpedo, Quadruple Mount -x4 .50 Caliber (12.7mm) Browning M2 Machine Gun

Armour

-Bow 1-2m Alloy -Sides 1m Alloy -Deckhouse 1m Alloy -Stern 1m Alloy -Turret Shields 1m Metal

Engine/Propulsion

-Steam Engines ~x4 3m Large Boilers, -2x 0.35 Burn Rate -2x 0.75 Burn Rate ~x2 Steam Turbine -Electric Engines, -x2 Large Propellers, Max Speed ~20m/s

Dimensions

-Length 106m (Historic 341.3ft/104m) -Beam 11m (35.6ft/10.9m) -Draft 3m (10ft 7in/3.2m)

If you don't like the deep blue Measure 21 camouflage scheme colours, you can replace colour slot 3 (blue) with the values from slot 2 (grey) on the vehicle.

Slot 2 R [0.58] G [0.59] B [0.60] Int [0.93] (Grey) Slot 3 R [0.11] G [0.16] B [0.28] Int [0.84] (Blue)

Notes on Operation

-Some of the AA guns may get stuck from elevating too much and trying to train on something. Manually controlling them temporarily can get them to reset position and un-stick themselves.
-Might have problems targetting or being targeted in sandbox, not sure what causes this.

Notes on Historical Accuracy

-The blue-camo'd vessel in the images is actually USS Drayton DD-366, another Mahan-Class destroyer.

-While the general proportions were taken from various sources, we followed this USS Cushing DD-376[maritime.org] general plans document from https://maritime.org/doc/plans/ in regards to structure, alongside pictures.

-I'm not actually sure if Mahan was painted in Measure 21 colours during her lifetime. As such, a bit of the camo is our "interpretation" (the crows nest is painted white like the mast, etc.)

-The interior had to be significantly reduced and the like, on account of floors and walls being 1M SQUARED OF SOLID METAL. Rooms like storage and crew quarters had to be slammed into the same general room, stairs jut into the middle of rooms, bathrooms are a measly 1 block wide, etc.
As we were unable to find many photos of destroyer interiors of the time, the rooms are mostly "interpretation" roughly based on what can be gleaned from the plans.

-This Mahan replica can steam up to 20 meters per second, being around 38 knots fast. Historically, she could go up to 37 knots according to most sources I could find, leaving our replica a whole 1 kn or 0.52 m/s faster than the real deal.

Featured in one of the screenshots is Tzaar's lovely Omaha CL-4!

Thank you to Hawkins656! some design cues inspired from the Allen M Sumner saved the Mahan's balancing systems.

this took like 2-3 weeks of building and researching i think, ayy lmao

Weigh Anchor!!!

14 Comments

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Johnville Sep 28, 2018 @ 1:07am

Awesome, thanks for the update.

blubertater [author] Sep 27, 2018 @ 9:34pm

[h1] UPDATE Sept 27, 2018: Added spotlights and additional spinblock'd propellers to bring the speed up to a bit more historical 20m/s (38~ knots, historically was 37 knots) [/h1]

i have a personal campaign-minded semi-historical retrofit that has way more firepower and aa guns, if anyone is interested i can upload it

Jasonator99 [author] Sep 12, 2018 @ 8:41pm

@Johnville Thank you for the comment.

Johnville Sep 10, 2018 @ 8:47am

A beautiful ship, I really like the blue color. It's not that effective in combat, it's ok, that's my main problem with it, but it's decent, good job!

blubertater [author] Aug 14, 2018 @ 5:56pm

UPDATE: Removed the neon light in the middle of the bridge, I put in in last minute, totally didn't realize it blocked the space in there.

The description is complete! for once

blubertater [author] Aug 14, 2018 @ 4:15pm

eyy yall thanks checking out the ship, much appreciated
i just updated the description, hopefully finish it soon

@Coldest Elm I haven't used the devtest version for fear of incompatabilities with most players and/or my game corrupting or something (happened a bunch before) The pics I've seen look really good, though.

@☕何☕ Yandere-brits ☕か ye, similar sorta torp layout and the funnels and stuff

@BRH0208 Thanks! I spent a lot of time hunting for good screenshots in battle.