There Is No Kill Like Overkill/Real Life: Difference between revisions

** In the same vein: German Battleship Scharnhorst, actually a battle''cruiser'', was a much larger threat to British shipping than the Bismark ever was. After an extensive and bloody career alongside her sister ship Gneisenau, Scharnhorst was eventually singled out and sunk. It took the Duke of York (a main line battleship), four cruisers, and something like 18 destroyers 12 hours of constant shelling before Scharnhorst finally went down by the bow - all serviceable guns still firing and screws still turning.

*** A total of 55 torpedoes and 2,195 shells had been fired since first contact with Duke of York and her battlegroup. Fewer shells, but many more torpedoes than Bismark soaked - And in less time.

*** It must also be noted though, that Scharnhorst, Like Bismark, was seriously hurt in the opening phases of the battle when a lucky shot from a cruiser took out her radar, leaving her virtually blind.

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7598614.stm A British tourist vacationing in Greece] had a violent reaction to a mixed drink that put her in a hospital. The drink? [[Gargle Blaster|A mixture of Baileys, chilli, tequila, absinthe, ouzo, vodka, cider, and gin.]]

* The [[Useful Notes/From Russia With Nukes|Tsar Bomba]] [[Types of Nuclear Weapons|H-bomb]], designed to level cities from 10 kilometres away, with a design payload of 100 megatonnes. Tested at half yield (50 Mt) 4 kilometres over Novaya Zemlya island, it registered as roughly a Richter 5 on seismographs, broke windows in Finland, and could have caused third degree burns from 100 kilometres distance.

** In ''Car Wars'', nuclear weapons were described as something along the lines of 'set even a small one off and the game is over'. The maps were poster-sized, two feet by three feet or so, and usually represented about eight city blocks or so. The smallest available nuke would utterly destroy at least six of those maps in every direction.

** As conventionals go, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_bomb Grand Slam] is pretty impressive. Oh, sure, it's got nothing on the power of nukes, but then, it was never meant to compete with nukes.

* During Operation Praying Mantis in the 1980's, an Iranian frigate decided to challenge an American surface action group. Three American ships opened fire with guns and missiles. After multiple gun rounds and six Standard Missiles from the first two ships had impacted, the captain of the third ship decided that he would make sure and fired a Harpoon anti-ship missile. By the time it arrived at the frigate's location, ''there was not a part of the frigate left floating large enough for the missile to lock onto.''

** The above is a case of [[It Makes Sense in Context]] since said tree's unique geographic position could've sparked a border conflict with North Korea. So, the possibility would've demanded some military readiness. That said, the whole thing was definitely an overreaction as well as overkill.

** It's also worth pointing out the first attempt at tree chopping ended with two American officers being hacked to death by North Korean troops. The operation was both an intentional show of force and a deterrent against any other such incident.

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