[Grunt]

Please anyone !
What's the good word for the place where obsolete ships are dismantled and reusable parts removed ?
I would hate to write "ship dismantling facility".
I would be interested in both slang words and which can be used in official text.

Sorry but I did not find it in any dictionaries.

[Wesmunly]

Salvage Dock
Scrap Yard
Recycling Plant
Refit Station

Just what comes to mind right off the bat

[Star Dragon]

Decomissioning plant

   Mothball facility

[ZylonBane]

Boneyard.

[vyper]

Knackers Yard

[Shrike]

Boneyard, definately, although that's slang and generally suggests that they're being left to rot as opposed to actively dismantled.  Considering they're stripping them and cutting them, chop-shop would be amusingly innacurate but could fit pilot slang.

[silverwolf]

how about dearming facility

[Stealth]

Originally posted by ZylonBane
Boneyard.

YES!

Where's that place (is it Arizona) in the desert, where there's hundreds and hundreds of planes just sitting in the desert, lined up, left to rot.

[Unknown Target]

Is it legal to take the planes?
Or "salvage" them?


Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease!!!!

[diamondgeezer]

No. They're there so the Russians can satellite-photgraph them, and make sure the Americans aren't playing silly buggers with their declared numbers of aircraft. It's part of some dis-armament program or other. The Americans also canibalise them for spares. They also pulled an F1-11 out of the boneyard and sold it to Australia, who added it to their fleet... just glad I'm not the one flying it

[vyper]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
No. They're there so the Russians can satellite-photgraph them, and make sure the Americans aren't playing silly buggers with their declared numbers of aircraft. It's part of some dis-armament program or other. The Americans also canibalise them for spares. They also pulled an F1-11 out of the boneyard and sold it to Australia, who added it to their fleet... just glad I'm not the one flying it

Typical cold war fallout there, oh well.

[Knight Templar]

You could just call it an Old Fashoined junkyard.. make sure you get some surly on man running the place though.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Grunt
Please anyone !
What's the good word for the place where obsolete ships are dismantled and reusable parts removed ?
I would hate to write "ship dismantling facility".
I would be interested in both slang words and which can be used in official text.

Sorry but I did not find it in any dictionaries.

In the Navy we just called it "decom". Any ship that wasn't getting mothballed was "decommed" or "going to decom". if it was going to be completely destroyed, it was "scuttled" or "scrapped". If it was just going into storage it was "mothballed".

The suggestion for "chopshop" for ships going to decom prior to be scuttled is a good one.

[Nuclear1]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
Old Fashoined junkyard

Ya beat me to it, KT

[Grunt]

Wow, there's much more than I expected.

Don't want to be too slangish though, because most players wouldn't get it.
Boneyard sounds good to me.

Thanks a lot !

[Grunt]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
They also pulled an F1-11 out of the boneyard and sold it to Australia, who added it to their fleet... just glad I'm not the one flying it

No problem. Lots of second hand F16s are sold to "small" countries all over the world.

Dust blown.
Engines repaired.
Electronics replaced.
The rest is just aluminium, does not rot.  

[Nico]

Originally posted by Shrike
Boneyard, definately, although that's slang and generally suggests that they're being left to rot as opposed to actively dismantled.  Considering they're stripping them and cutting them, chop-shop would be amusingly innacurate but could fit pilot slang.

[warcraft peasant voice] shop chop![/warcraft peasant voice]

[ZylonBane]

Originally posted by Grunt
Don't want to be too slangish though, because most players wouldn't get it.

The official name of the facility is worse than slang-- Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center.

Bird's-Eye View

[Goober5000]

Regeneration?

[Grunt]

Originally posted by ZylonBane
The official name of the facility is worse than slang-- Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center.

Easy to translate to pilot slang: AMRC

Not worse than doing a CFG.

Birds' eye:
Not bad. An endless source of realistic target drones.