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After the design exercise, the emergency battleship drops from 30 to 28 knots and reallocates roughly 3,000 tons to armour.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland) ·
Published range figures depend heavily on speed, fuel assumptions, and the distinction between nominal and operational load states.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland) ·
A triple-turret Royal Navy could pair twelve-gun fast Queen Elizabeth-type ships with more numerous nine-gun R-class ships while retaining formidable firepower.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland) ·
The closing argument calls for a visibly decisive British lead over Germany that would discourage further naval competition.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland) ·
Replacing three lost battleships rather than battlecruisers would likely have pushed Britain toward a faster Queen Elizabeth-style capital ship and an N3-like successor.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Heavy German battlecruiser losses might have made a later British raid into the Baltic more attractive once Renown, Repulse, Courageous, and Glorious were available.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
The comparison is rooted in each navy's strategic setting, historical habits, and political constraints rather than a wish list of ships.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
As lasers begin defeating drones, protection and counter-countermeasures may evolve much as First World War spotter aircraft developed into armed fighters and bombers.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
A Belarus deployment would affect Britain mainly through allied air planning and deterrence, because Belarus has no coast and Britain then lacked a fielded land- or sea-based ballistic-missile defence.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Aircraft carriers remain valuable for both strike and sustained combat because their aircraft can extend missile reach, break up attacks, and be rearmed at sea.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
A future counterpart to the Flower-class corvette could be a trawler-sized uncrewed escort controlled within a screen led by a larger frigate or destroyer.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Aircraft can add range, direction, speed, and launch altitude to a hypersonic weapon even when the weapon must be carried externally.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
At-sea VLS reloading is a demanding handling problem because modern missiles are delicate, exposed ship motion is complex, and navies abandoned earlier crane arrangements after poor results.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
The concentration of fleets did not leave broad openings for pirates because waters outside one dominant navy's patrol area were usually controlled by another.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
A floating dry dock can support forward repair in a sheltered bay or base, but it cannot create identical ship motion for open-ocean missile transfer.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
The British, Australian, and Canadian ships can remain members of one design family even when national systems and displacement differ substantially.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Vertical launch replaced arm launchers because it reacts faster and can put more missiles into the air quickly against a saturation attack.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Australia combines rich uranium reserves and a commodity-export economy with no civil nuclear-power sector and substantial exposure to Chinese demand and imported energy.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Australia's coastal population and vast maritime responsibilities make sea control and power projection central to its defensive depth.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
The lack of a civilian nuclear-power sector complicates Australia's ability to sustain the skills needed for a nuclear-powered submarine arm.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Canada combines a large, trade-integrated economy and diverse energy base with exposed Arctic geography and a diplomatic culture that can be tested by coercive powers.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Australia's resistance to nuclear generation is linked here less to technical impossibility than to the employment and political weight of coal.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
A population of about five million must support responsibilities across a large EEZ, Antarctic interests, Pacific island relationships, and trade routes far beyond New Zealand's shores.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
New Zealand's navy includes frigates and the multirole Canterbury alongside its patrol vessels, giving it combat and sealift functions beyond constabulary work.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
F-35 stealth makes detection difficult rather than impossible, so radar generation and detection range remain central to the contest.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Britain's overseas territories and trade-dependent economy turn distant shipping disruptions into national security problems.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Regional funding can sustain the schools, roads, and railways needed by nationally important industry where the local tax base alone is too small.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Australia's armed forces are characterised as compact, adaptable, and suited to hard-hitting allied operations, while the surrounding ocean remains the country's strategic security zone.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Retiring carriers and F-111s narrowed Australia's defensive reach, while the nuclear-submarine programme signals a return to operating well forward of the coast.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Domestic construction supports strategic independence, but gaps between programmes repeatedly destroy the workforce and infrastructure that the next project must pay to rebuild.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
An Australian Invincible and Sea Harrier force might have survived long enough to make a later Queen Elizabeth-class or F-35-capable Canberra replacement plausible, but several reviews could still have ended it.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Canada's claim to the world's third-largest navy rested chiefly on its enormous escort fleet rather than on cruisers or other prestige ships.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Fleet numbers must cover operations, transit, training, and refit, so small classes produce fragile availability even when each new hull is much more capable than its predecessor.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Dominion units were valued as shock troops for cohesion, fitness, and extended unit training, not because commanders simply regarded them as expendable.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Extra crews can increase a forward-deployed ship's tempo, but they require their own training platform and shore support and cannot eliminate refit or replace a lost hull.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Achilles at the River Plate illustrates how New Zealand's small forces entered the Second World War from the beginning and made an early naval contribution.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
A revived HMS New Zealand would probably remain a Royal Navy ship but could develop a strong New Zealand crewing tradition, perhaps including an RNZN executive officer.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Britain's claim to global military reach rests less on having the third-largest force than on possessing the auxiliary, land-logistics, and airlift systems needed to sustain deployments.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
British strategy repeatedly balances trade-dependent economic strength against defence investment, often leaving forces modernising for a later war when conflict arrives early.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Initiating a conflict does not prove full preparation; Hitler did not expect the wider European war to begin in 1939 on the timetable that followed.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
A shortfall in Hobart-class air-defence numbers pushes Australia to add more air-warfare capability to the ASW-focused Hunter design.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Operating F-35s would require weapons, magazine, and sustainment changes designed out of the Canberra class, far beyond use of its ski-jump bow.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Australia's small Hobart and Canberra classes were sized to contribute to allied interventions, not to absorb losses and sustain a peer war.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
The proposed answer is not a dozen destroyers but roughly six to eight: enough for availability on both coasts without exceeding Australia's sustaining capacity.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Allied help is most credible when Australia can make a meaningful contribution to its own defence and to a combined force.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Canada's preference for heavily armed frigate- or destroyer-sized ships reflects a smaller navy's need to extract maximum capability from every deployable hull.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Canada's fleet must be divided between two distant coasts while meeting separate Arctic requirements, limiting how quickly ships can reinforce one another.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·
Canada fielded capable forces at about 1.3 percent of GDP, while comparisons with mass-produced American ships obscured the cost of domestic construction and Canadian-specific design work.
From Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN ·