even without a translation I can feel the insansity

They let the French boats have their way with Black Kirishima.....

Gangut and Verniy are almost get killed by Black Kirishima. If they dies, Stalin would send them to underground Gulag for life.

That face oh the nostaliga

Oi, that lighting effect on Kuro! Kirishma's guns and shells... isn't that like when Haruna had the Abyssalyizing Rigging?

Thank God for overpens...

That UN flag reminded me that YeFan and Ido-sensei are acquainted XD

Gangut: Pancake!

I think this situation justifies the use of a full-on (Щас по ебалу получишь,) СУКА бЛЯТЬ.

Garrus said:

Oi, that lighting effect on Kuro! Kirishma's guns and shells... isn't that like when Haruna had the Abyssalyizing Rigging?

Perhaps grandpa was working with the abysmals to keep the war going, maybe ido is doing this to announce his capture of a certain clumsy battleship

InfinityPrince said:

That UN flag reminded me that YeFan and Ido-sensei are acquainted XD

Its my headcanon that this plot of land was purchased by Aunt Merkel, through the power of G€rmon€y.

Steak said:

Thank God for overpens...

Wait a minute... is that a GAZ-MM? The truck used by the Red Army and retrofitted into all kinds of antiair technicals? Chassis looks highly similar but the wheels are kinda small.

HONK HONK!

How much bang does a fucking carrier's secondaries make?

And they just *had* to tie her up that way huh

Black Kirishima is running like a T-1000. How befitting.

@homegrownhero
IIRC Graf Zeppelin has 15 cm (5.87 inch) guns.

homegrownhero said:

How much bang does a fucking carrier's secondaries make?

And they just *had* to tie her up that way huh

Blame Uzuki for rotting Teste.

homegrownhero said:

How much bang does a fucking carrier's secondaries make?

Graf Zeppelin's secondaries? About as much as an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser.

TheArtistManTrung said:

Gangut and Verniy are almost get killed by Black Kirishima. If they dies, Stalin would send them to underground Gulag for life.

STEP 2: ASCEND FROM DARKNESS!

Black Kirishima fired at an allied nations soldiers under orders from a superior.
Have fun explaining that to the Diet.

homegrownhero said:

How much bang does a fucking carrier's secondaries make?

And they just *had* to tie her up that way huh

I think you meant "primaries"?

Kurzwaltz said:

Black Kirishima is running like a T-1000. How befitting.

@homegrownhero
IIRC Graf Zeppelin has 15 cm (5.87 inch) guns.

Think those still count as her primary battery though (even if planes are supposed to be her main 'armament'). Though, same guns as the secondaries on Bismarck. And in greater numbers too, because someone was drunk (figuratively) when the chief engineer proposed to "double up on the guns to save space" (put them in twin-gun turrets, he meant).

(The Bismarck and Scharnhorst classes got twelve 15cm guns as secondaries. Graf got sixteen [but as 'primaries'], up from her the eight in her original design because of said epic misunderstanding.)

Eboreg said:

Graf Zeppelin's secondaries? About as much as an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser.

To clarify, Graf's proposed design would have had twelve 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK C/33 guns as secondaries, exactly the same as the Admiral Hipper-class. That said, those are all antiaircraft guns.

Makes me wonder how did Vice Admiral become in charge of the MPs when he was already demoted due to being discovered doing shady stuff?

Okay, let me see if I can predict what's going to happen next:

• A standoff between the rest of the JSMDF and the Foreign Shipgirls' Dorm ensues.
• De Ruyter, using money from one of her ventures, offers to buy Black Kashima and Katori from the Japanese government. As the standoff is earning them the enmity of the rest of the world, they agree.
• De Ruyter turns around and sells the two of them to the UK government, not being entirely accurate about their combat abilities.
• The UK Government, not happy they just overspent on two less-than-useful shipgirls, do what they did with the ships they didn't want during WWII; give them to Poland.
• Poland, seeing little use in shipgirls who can't fight very well or speak their language, decide to send them to Japan, since that seems to be what every other country is doing.
• The two remain regular characters, with Kashima trying to adapt to her "new homeland", while Katori can barely be bothered to remember she isn't technically still part of Japan.

Colorado although small will always be smug.

NNescio said:

To clarify, Graf's proposed design would have had twelve 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK C/33 guns as secondaries, exactly the same as the Admiral Hipper-class. That said, those are all antiaircraft guns.

I... was referring to the primaries. Yes, the Graf Zeppelin was designed to have 8 8-inch guns mounted in 4 dual turrets.

homegrownhero said:

How much bang does a fucking carrier's secondaries make?

And they just *had* to tie her up that way huh

Battleships (and to a lesser extent early model carriers) had what amounted to a light cruiser strapped to either side.

Steak said:

Battleships (and to a lesser extent early model carriers) had what amounted to a light cruiser strapped to either side.

Point

homegrownhero said:

How much bang does a fucking carrier's secondaries make?

And they just *had* to tie her up that way huh

The fact that her rigging is also in shibari is a nice touch.

Eboreg said:

I... was referring to the primaries. Yes, the Graf Zeppelin was designed to have 8 8-inch guns mounted in 4 dual turrets.

Oh.

Well, hmm, comparing primaries, IIRC the 15cm/55 SK C/28 fired shells around 45kg in mass, while the Admiral Hipper class' 20.3cm/60 SK C/34 fire those around 120kg? So Pringles has about 3x the mass but half the number of guns shooting, so about 1.5x in a barrage.

Though the 20.3cm shells only have like twice the amount of explosive filler of their 15cm counterparts (forgot the exact numbers). Then again, while the "energy" (theoretical amount of work performed under ideal conditions) of the explosion scales with explosive mass (in theory), the actual destructive potential isn't exactly linear...

And with firing rates factored in... the 15cm/55 SK C/28 do fire faster, but the ones on Graf are sort of slapped haphazardly on the corners like an afterthought so they don't exactly have good firing arcs. Also I think they're probably less stable and are susceptible to getting flooded.

Smug Colorado Probs did all the tying up.

My base's extraterritorial rights at too strong to let this comic end.

ThatOneDudeLooking said:

Smug Colorado Probs did all the tying up.

But she's always small and smug.

Garrus said:

Oi, that lighting effect on Kuro! Kirishma's guns and shells... isn't that like when Haruna had the Abyssalyizing Rigging?

That's what I thought too, I wouldn't be surprised if the "fake" Akashi is revealed to be working for the Vice-Admiral and was beta-testing the Abyssal-Shipgirl hybrid equipment on Haruna and Kaga to get valuable data and create an incident that the Vice-Admiral could use to court-martial the Admiral. (although one of her lines of dialogue very strongly implies that the fake Akashi was an Abyssal, so maybe the Vice-Admiral is in even in ever shadier business than we thought)

Well, it's fine if Japan declares war on the rest of the the world again in the name of treating sentient shipgirls like slaves.

It's not like the rest of the world couldn't stomp them into extinction...

Right?

I’d like to see Kuro-Kirishima’s face when she blew down a wall, only to see 6 or 7 foreign battleships.

“It was at this moment Kuro-Kirishima knew, she fucked up.”

Reisentanith said:

Black Kirishima fired at an allied nations soldiers under orders from a superior.
Have fun explaining that to the Diet.

Imagine the field day news outlets are gonna have, especially Russian ones.

“Japanese Secret Police Shipgirl fires on Russian shipgirls. Girls unharmed, vodka delivery destroyed.”

it was a Eureka 7 reference?

ForteBX said:
it was a Eureka 7 reference?

Fourth panel is the Renton duckface meme (see nijiura_7; this ).

I still can’t believe Gangut and Bismarck haven’t tackled the Vice Admiral with a NKVD-Gestapo surprise attack.

A_Lurker said:

Imagine the field day news outlets are gonna have, especially Russian ones.

“Japanese Secret Police Shipgirl fires on Russian shipgirls. Girls unharmed, vodka delivery destroyed.”

... Which is the worse part of the headline here? That the shipgirls were fired upon, or that a shipment of vodka was wasted?

Garrus said:

... Which is the worse part of the headline here? That the shipgirls were fired upon, or that a shipment of vodka was wasted?

If you're talking about Russia, definitely the vodka.

sevendusk said:

STEP 2: ASCEND FROM DARKNESS!

STEP 3: RAIN FIRE!

A_Lurker said:

I’d like to see Kuro-Kirishima’s face when she blew down a wall, only to see 6 or 7 foreign battleships.

“It was at this moment Kuro-Kirishima knew, she fucked up.”

Imagine the field day news outlets are gonna have, especially Russian ones.

“Japanese Secret Police Shipgirl fires on Russian shipgirls. Girls unharmed, vodka delivery destroyed.”

Sovetsky Soyuz: Well, time to call in Slava handle this...

So has this met or surpassed the Dogger Bank Incident on the International Incident Scale?

A_Lurker said:

So has this met or surpassed the Dogger Bank Incident on the International Incident Scale?

After a quick review, at least the former could be called an accident. This was entirely deliberate. Either way, really depends on how important Gangut and Verniy are considered to the Russian Navy.

Garrus said:

After a quick review, at least the former could be called an accident. This was entirely deliberate. Either way, really depends on how important Gangut and Verniy are considered to the Russian Navy.

Verniy probably means more to the Japanese than she does to the Russians since she was little more than a Cold-war era barracks ship and later a target vessel. Gangut... that could be a little more challenging.

Realistically speaking, Japan could be heavily reliant on Russian oil imports in this setting due to the fact that their RL middle-eastern convoys might be cut off due to Abyssal interference and... well... common enemy.

Eboreg said:

Verniy probably means more to the Japanese than she does to the Russians since she was little more than a Cold-war era barracks ship and later a target vessel. Gangut... that could be a little more challenging.

I don't think Verniy's history is relevant here. She's part of the Russian forces now (I think?) and she was attacked by a member of what was supposed to be an allied military under orders from a high-ranking officer. That could be seen as an act of war.

Maybe this is going to end with Japan throwing the Vice-Admiral under the bus to avoid an international incident.

Kaktus_Lata said:

I don't think Verniy's history is relevant here. She's part of the Russian forces now (I think?) and she was attacked by a member of what was supposed to be an allied military under orders from a high-ranking officer. That could be seen as an act of war.

Maybe this is going to end with Japan throwing the Vice-Admiral under the bus to avoid an international incident.

No, they'll double down and blame the Allies for their unprovoked aggression against their internal affairs, even though it involves slavery. And then tell their public that they're being persecuted again by white imperialist Foreigners who want to colonize them.

Then they'll join the Abyssal fleetand start forcibly converting their citizens and brainwash them.