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Terror's interwar gunnery work and deployment to Singapore show how a monitor could provide both weapons development and a temporary heavy-gun deterrent.
From Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 8 ·
The three-month passage to Singapore exposed the poor seakeeping and handling costs that accompanied a monitor's shallow draft and heavy armament.
From Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 8 ·
Terror's interwar live-fire exercises, including a target towed by HMS Berwick, helped prepare Singapore's fixed guns.
From Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 8 ·
During Operation Compass, Terror used her heavy guns against Italian positions and coastal fortifications in the advance through Libya.
From Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 8 ·
Concern over Terror's worn main guns forced a risky reduction in cordite charges even as the monitor continued bombarding Bardia and Tobruk.
From Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 8 ·
The rapid advance to Benghazi left anti-aircraft guns, radar, air cover, and base support behind, exposing the logistical difference between moving troops and moving their infrastructure.
From Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 8 ·
Terror's loss to air attack shows the limits of her altered anti-aircraft battery and the courage of a crew defending an exposed monitor.
From Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 8 ·
The class illustrates how a relatively cheap specialist ship can add massed firepower without the expense and crew burden of a capital unit.
From Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 8 ·
A run through the Royal Navy ships named Invincible links a captured French 74, the Jutland battlecruiser, and the Falklands carrier.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
The Warspite lineage runs from sailing ships through the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship and a Valiant-class submarine, feeding a joke that the name gives each vessel an independent streak.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
A question about Samar compares Taffy 3's escort carriers and destroyers with Kurita's battleships and cruisers.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
The case for a British deterrent is framed around continuous patrol rather than a hurried crisis deployment.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Six American destroyers defeated four Japanese destroyers and sank three, but the opposing forces were more evenly matched than the ships at Samar.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Flying boats are weighed against conventional maritime-patrol aircraft for Britain and the Pacific.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
The 14-inch gun is assessed as workable but politically attractive, with a quadruple mounting offsetting its limited ballistic progress.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Blue Streak is presented as a technical success whose fixed-silo basing problem made Polaris the more practical deterrent route.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Replacing Sea Cat with lightweight Sea Wolf is treated as a clear improvement, alongside better close-range gun armament.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Philip Vian provides the example of a captain who rose to vice admiral during the war and later became Admiral of the Fleet.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Some early U.S. destroyers were capable ships, but uneven handling and a shortage of effective commanders magnified the weaknesses of poorer designs.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
British support for the 14-inch calibre was intended to demonstrate the limit it wanted other naval powers to accept.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
A shared 15-inch/45 weapon could have armed the King George V class while supporting common upgrades across Britain's older capital ships.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
The related Vickers gun designs make ammunition interchange conceivable, but the heavier British shell could exceed the Japanese hoists' intended load.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
The case for Churchill rests less on perfection than on national recognition, governing experience, and distance from recent appeasement failures.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
The British, French, and Italian requirements around Horizon differed as much in intended role as in the Falklands lesson.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
The Second London Naval Treaty is placed within an attempt to restrain expenditure while Britain and France bought time to rearm.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Pre-negotiation and informal bargaining begin long before a treaty conference ends, so ship designs can be committed before the final diplomatic answer arrives.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
The anniversary of Operation Gothic Serpent leads from the attempt to capture Mohamed Farrah Aidid to a warning that recent operational lessons can disappear before the next intervention.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
A 1920s Swedish force concept favours fast 3,000-ton destroyer leaders, torpedoes, 40 mm guns, and submarines for Baltic warfare.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
One additional converted carrier helps, but Japanese industrial capacity - not a single hull - sets the larger wartime limit.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Halifax's appeasement role, House of Lords position, limited public appeal, and willingness to serve under Churchill all weakened his practical claim to the premiership.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
A question about Brooke and Churchill becomes a warning that senior wartime memoirs can magnify their author's role by assigning bad ideas to political leaders.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
An average-age rule could have spread replacement costs more evenly and reduced resentment by allowing every navy a regular flow of new construction.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
South Dakota is preferred overall, although Richelieu's eight forward 15-inch guns give her an advantage in a bow-on engagement.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Official records and later memoir claims are contrasted to question Chatfield's reputation as an early champion of carrier warfare.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Names can acquire meanings that make reuse unwise even when the original naming choice was not intended as an insult.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Four Malta-class carriers might preserve a sea-based British presence East of Suez without preventing the withdrawal of major ground forces.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Once ballistic-missile submarines are treated as modern capital ships, a royal name drawn from the battleship tradition becomes a logical choice.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
This account says Sidney Smith judged that separating Napoleon from his army reduced the Egyptian expedition's threat to British interests in India.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Treaty limits and looming conflict can force navies to build a workable design before a larger or more refined one is ready.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
British ships required more habitable interiors because they deployed globally and hosted diplomatic functions, while German ships expected shorter North Sea sorties.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
The initial Essex programme covered roughly eleven hulls, with the much larger expansion ordered after the United States entered the war.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
A carrier's fighters could have disrupted Japanese attack waves and given Force Z a better chance than added anti-aircraft weapons alone.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Roosevelt's joke that the Doolittle bombers came from the fictional Shangri-La became the name of a later Essex-class carrier.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Less wartime debt and physical damage could have allowed Britain to remain the Western bloc's second-ranking power for longer.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Carrier aircraft can support anti-submarine warfare, but early hunter groups exposed irreplaceable fleet carriers to submarines.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Sturdee is sent with battlecruisers to defeat Spee because his earlier planning had helped leave Cradock understrength at Coronel.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union exercised power differently, so there is no universal period in which a rising state learns how to behave as a superpower.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·
The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa, or Army Type 1 Fighter, is distinguished from the better-known Japanese naval aircraft.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7) ·