@minecraft-physics (View Post)

No problem. Until I became a Petty Officer, I had no clue what a ballast tank was.

@KydonShadow (View Post)

 really?

well, yeah. I've never served on a ship, so...

@KydonShadow (View Post)

 but surely in school or in the media? Out of interest what is it that you do? i.e what function do you preform in the Navy for example being an interservice liason officer.

I've heard of them, I just didn't know how they worked or what they did. I knew that cargo tankers and ice breakers use them in the bow hull to make the bow sturdier.

Many ships do- people used to use rocks as ballast- there is a problem with coastal erosion near Hurst castle because of old english trading vessels using the large rocks there as ballast. I' assuming you meant steadier not sturdier.

@minecraft-physics (View Post)

This is jaw dropping good.

@JamesB (View Post)

Yeah I meant sturdier.

@KydonShadow (View Post)

 sturdier? ballast is used to balance out loads and to prevent capsizing / overloading when moving between different densities of water. Cargo ships and ferries use larger ballast tanks than many ships, and ballast is sometimes used to clean out fuel tanks. Obviously submarines also need them, but Icebreakers are already designed to be heavy enough, even though ballast would help them accrue more momentum for a little more inertia to force them through pack ice. The main problem for these ships is wearing down of their hulls by ice friction, which eventually drove ships like the Lenin (neuclear icebreaker) to be decomissioned even though they still worked well at sea.

hey, I like the sub. it's pretty cool. Could you perhaps make the ICBM's independantly moving piston ships? the huge piston arms are rather obstructive :P

this could work if you replaced the batterey with wifi. 

also, I'm rahter impressed that the warheads actually work decently. good job.