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Alpha Battery (Atomic Annie), 3rd Battalion (Rail gun) of the 9th Artillery Regiment (Illuminate), 4th Artillery Regiment (Engorged Dragoons), 49er Subterranean Division (Cold Fire), 3rd Armored Corps (ThrAC Thunderbolt Corpse), 21st Army (First, Furthest, Forever) Uteumque Ubique : Anywhere at Any Time
- Alpha Battery (Atomic Annie)
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3rd Battalion (Rail gun) of the
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9th Artillery Regiment (Illuminate)
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- 4th Artillery Regiment (Engorged Dragoons)
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49er Subterranean Division (Cold Fire)
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3rd Armored Corps (ThrAC Thunderbolt Corpse)
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21st Army (First, Furthest, Forever)
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Alpha Battery consists of 4 guns, 2 exploding ammo boxcars, and 2 Q-car, (TBD: Troop carriers, Cranes-Forklifts on flatcars, ... the 250 ton railroad crane cars do not seem usefull as they cannot move from the rails to load ammo), 7 Submarines. They are at times in command of BABES and or Helicopters traveling with them. Model Power makes the cars (so they all need new wheels and couplers). It would be interesting to motorize these, Q-car and gun elevation controlled by DCC or XBee-Arduino.
The W9 nuclear warhead was 11 inches (280 mm) in diameter, 55 inches (138 cm) long, and weighed 850 pounds (364 kg). It had an explosive yield of 15 kilotons. The range of the M65 was 7..20..25..35 miles, depending on the data source. ROTLD : Sgt Jefferson 42nd Special Mobile Artillery, Code AHR909, Bearing 220, Range 134 miles. ...No artillery can fire 134 miles... M110 8 inch W33 40kt, M109 155 mm W48 (0.072 kiloton) : about 15 mile range.
Little Boy 16kt, Fat Man 21 kt
- 2 Q car boxcars: guns hidden behind drop-down sides ... aching to be automated.
Hitec HS-35HD servos : 1 per gun and 1 per door with an arduino hard wired stuck to the roof and the DCC power lines running from ?boxcar? : 4 servos and stuff = > $100 ... might be a while.
The Hitec HS-35HD servos are small enough to be used on the guns and exploding boxcars too... though the controlling arduino and power supply might need to be ?somewhere?
Loader powering off the train car ... Tracked Crane (modified RC Hot Wheels): Videos of actual : Extreme Maneuver - Unloading the Excavator ...
Cat 319D LN climbing onto rail car
- Midget submarines {6" x 87 = 522 /39 = 13.4 meters (hope they can move through resin :)}
1/350 Trafalgar Class Submarine frosty[9.6" long x 1.1" wide]
1/700 USS San Francisco SSN-711 Length: 5.97", 1/700 USS SSN-772 Greenville Length: 6.16"
USS San Francisco got run into a seamount ... an underwater hill ... smashed the nose into crumpled steel.
USS Greenville carrying an ASDS sub. Another Navy pipe dream ...Wiki: "Yardney Technical Products of Pawcatuck, Conn., has been awarded a $44 million contract modification to provide four lithium-ion batteries for the ASDS program by May 2009." Initially the subs were to cost $80 million .. latest estimate is $2 Billion... in November 2008 it mysteriously caught fire and burned for 6 hours and then was not opened for two weeks.
1/700 USS SSN-23 Jimmy Carter Length: 7.7", 1/700 Kilo Class Russian Navy 4.15"
USS Jimmy Carter has a 100' section amidships to command and launch mini-subs and ROVs.
1/400 WWII U boat #26 ...Jones is there! waving...[6.5" long x 1.7" tall], 1/700 USS Gato SS-212 launched 1941 Length: 5.34"
- OH-6 Cayuse [Aerial Observation]
Alpha Company (Angels), 1st Bn (All Seeing Eyes) of the 1st Aviation Regiment (Abra), 33rd Aviation Brigade (Choppers), 49er Subterranean Division (Cold Fire), III Corps, 21st Army (First, Furthest, Forever) Uteumque Ubique : Anywhere at Any Time
Atomic Annie box : 1/32 : it might be a while before this is finished
WWII 1/144 preassembled and painted. They were named Robert and Leopold by the Germans, but are better known by their Allied nicknames - Anzio Annie and Anzio Express. Maximum range 64 km (40 mi).
Anzio Annie on a flat car in front of Alpha Battery rail gun
There are 1/144, 1/72, 1/35 inexpensive plastic models available and HO by Lima and Rivarossi no longer manufactured available for exorbitant prices.
Lima Leopold 1/87 HO military train German WWII L149704G K5 28cm Railway Gun
JTG German WWII Railroad Series, 1/87 KRUPP K5 Railway Gun
Bashed armor car
Model Power 1/87 Thunder cannon
Rivarossi 1/87 Leopold (re-released made in China)
Dragon 1/144 Leopold
Bashed armor car #2
BFG train on my layout 166m became 72.
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