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Floating docks offer an analogy for movable space docks, while the Space Shuttle shows why reusable vehicles still need inspection time.
From British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate) ·
The livestream is framed as a seminar where questions and discussion complement faster lecture-style teaching.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Similar timing and requirements can produce ships that look alike even when their internal arrangements differ.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A question about unusually large destroyer guns becomes a caution about fitting heavy weapons without a compelling operational reason.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
An alternate-history question explores how oil firing and a later rebuild could have changed Tiger's speed and usefulness.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
The number of ships a navy can afford changes the balance between individual protection, speed, and fleet flexibility.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Two Canadian Tiger-type ships would complicate treaty arithmetic by giving a Dominion credible capital ships of its own.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A question about hindsight bias highlights the mistake of assuming that the outcome we know was the only plausible outcome.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Different geographic commitments make superficially different British and American design choices rational for each navy.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A Tiger-derived Leopard would combine 15-inch guns with small-tube boilers, with its final speed depending on how much machinery power the design pursued.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Pairing turbine stages lets a ship cruise efficiently on lower settings while retaining high-pressure machinery for top speed.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
The Swordfish's biplane layout reflected proven interwar requirements rather than a World War I design frozen in time.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
The geometry of a plunging shell makes a clean funnel entry far less plausible than the familiar story suggests.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A dry-dock location must combine naval access, industrial capacity, and political security over a service life measured in decades.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Australian forces, the Royal Navy, and other Allies disappear when the war against Japan is reduced to an American-only story.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
The Isle of Man is remembered for producing an unusually high number of Royal Navy captains relative to its population.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A twin mounting adds limited size and complexity while preserving firepower after one gun fails.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
The wide gap between Tiger's after turrets reflects the paths required for boilers, turbines, and propeller shafts, and it could not be removed through a simple refit.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
The Revenge class met an urgent World War I need, but Renown's speed created more useful operational options in the next war.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A four-quadruple-turret King George V would throw formidable shell volume, but the comparison shown still favours twelve 16-inch guns for delivered effect.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Recorded four days before the full-scale invasion, this contemporaneous assessment weighs force buildup, political pressure, and the shrinking room for a limited operation.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A proposed comparison method combines kinetic and explosive energy with range, rate of fire, and realistic hit assumptions.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Goodall receives a narrow preference partly because carrier work receives less attention than battleship design.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Initial ready ammunition and peak firing rates differ from the rate a ship and its crew can sustain.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
The Royal Navy had a large nominal gun advantage at Denmark Strait, so Bismarck's later reputation cannot be explained by specifications alone.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Turtleback armour is explained as a scheme intended to keep machinery and magazines protected so a damaged ship can remain mobile.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A discussion of Soviet Project 72 focuses on the limits inherited from Graf Zeppelin and on the inflexibility of a rail-based aircraft-handling scheme.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Hood's design kept growing even after the German battlecruisers that might have justified it were no longer being built.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
The small quick-firing Hotchkiss guns survived because they remained useful for signalling, harassment, and work ashore.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Reliable helicopters available in numbers by 1943 would add precise vertical lift and a dangerous new submarine-hunting platform.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A counterfactual design path turns the large light cruisers into enlarged Renown derivatives with triple 15-inch turrets.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
After Germany's defeat, the Royal Navy expected future danger to centre on distant trade routes and mobile war against Japan or the United States.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Catastrophic loading accidents become more likely when inexperienced personnel rush a procedure they have not practised enough.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
The treaty's combined capital-ship category reflected negotiating politics because only Britain and Japan possessed battlecruisers.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Reliability, payload, low maintenance, reconnaissance, and night attack mattered more to the Swordfish requirement than high speed.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A larger Admiral class could hunt in pairs or provide fast heavy-gun support to carrier task forces.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Plans to retain a famous ship matter less than the material condition in which the fleet emerges from a long war.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Hood's roughly six-million-pound price approached twice Renown's cost, turning design ambition into a fleet-numbers choice.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A Fleet Air Arm history traces the Barracuda's difficult development to an ambitious airframe and an engine programme that never reached production.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A capability deters only when enough ships and crews exist to keep it available despite accidents, maintenance, and crisis demands.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Size, novelty, and dramatic wartime losses made Hood and Repulse more visible in public memory than Renown's longer but less sensational career.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
An early hit on Prinz Eugen could force Bismarck to choose between protecting her consort and abandoning her to British cruisers.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A clean-sheet treaty fleet would favour the country able to finance and build about fifteen new capital ships, with Britain centred on a faster Nelson-style design.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A British equivalent would need one of the fleet's larger carriers, possibly a pair of armoured carriers, to launch Mosquitos on the strike.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Several ships of one proven class simplify logistics, training, and later modernization compared with four unique battlecruisers.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Technology does not automatically obsolete a sound hull; constant redesign can consume money without delivering ships.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
A smaller number of capital-ship designs reduces engineering effort and lets successful rebuild features be copied across a class.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·
Radio forecasts were supplemented by shipboard instruments and specialists, especially where flying operations made local weather critical.
From Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books ·