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The 1979 war may have been a Chinese attempt to punish Vietnam and signal a regional hierarchy, although its aims remain contested.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6) ·
Some wartime sloops could still support patrol and fisheries-protection tasks, while later armoured carriers might be adaptable only with extensive work.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6) ·
For Britain, F-35B flexibility matters more than the F-35C's higher technical performance because more compatible flight decks improve availability.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6) ·
If every major navy suddenly recovered all of its Second World War ships and had to modernize them, the first problem would be rebuilding the yards needed to handle the work.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6) ·
Even after finding docks, a restored wartime fleet would need huge crews and engineers who understand machinery that has disappeared from modern service.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6) ·
HMS Nubian's survival, service record, and destroyer-scale battle honours make her the strongest answer to the question of a favourite ship.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6) ·
Battleships declined after 1945 because navies lost a compelling reason to buy them, rather than because their combat power suddenly vanished.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
Battleship construction followed the perceived need to defeat an opposing battle line, even when aircraft had shown their striking power.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
A carrier can change missions with its air group, project power farther, and contribute to layered air defence.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
With few opposing battleships left after 1945, cruisers and carriers could address most surface-raider problems more economically.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
The Royal Navy kept Vanguard as an insurance policy while expecting carriers and new destroyer technology to meet future needs.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
Very fast submarines did not make convoy escorts pointless because the attacker still had to approach the formation those escorts protected.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
Nuclear torpedoes looked formidable, but fear that any nuclear use could trigger wider escalation limited their practical attraction.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
Britain's heavy bombers illustrate how a useful weapon can lose its procurement rationale when another system assumes its defining mission.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
A carrier could be justified for land attack and fleet air defence even without an opposing carrier, unlike a battleship built around capital-ship combat.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
Large inherited cruiser fleets reduced pressure for immediate replacement while the Tiger class tested technologies for the Royal Navy's next generation.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
A navy expected to appear around the world still needed cruisers because they performed presence and deployment duties more naturally than battleships.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
The Daring class shows why a large destroyer could support carrier escort, anti-submarine warfare, cruiser-like duties, and naval gunfire.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
Carriers displaced battleships because their wider mission set gave them a continuing strategic purpose.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out ·
The opening translates the Regia Marina's rank structure before placing Domenico Cavagnari beneath Mussolini's personal naval ministry.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
Cavagnari entered the naval academy unusually young, served abroad and in a ministerial post, but advanced more slowly than a future service chief might be expected to do.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
Commands of a destroyer flotilla, the naval academy, and a cruiser division preceded Cavagnari's abrupt selection when Mussolini took the naval portfolio himself.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
Cavagnari had less time to prepare than Raeder or Fushimi, yet Italy began with a credible position against France and direct access to Mussolini, advantages he failed to turn into effective preparation.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
Cavagnari favoured battleships and submarines while carrier and cruiser development stalled, producing a force mix poorly suited to Mediterranean strategy.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
Japan's notice of withdrawal from the naval-treaty system gave Cavagnari an opening to press Mussolini for cruisers, carriers, and naval air coordination, but he did not use it.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
French Atlantic ports and rail links, Royal Navy control at Gibraltar, and Britain's pragmatic need to keep France in the war limited what Italy's battleship-centred fleet could achieve.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
Even a modest fighter carrier and better naval air coordination could have addressed the Mediterranean's air-power problem more effectively.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
The inconclusive 1940 Battle of Calabria, known in Italy as the Battle of Punta Stilo, exposed a missed opportunity for Italy's strong surface force and, alongside Taranto, contributed to Cavagnari's fall from office.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
Cavagnari's succession by Arturo Riccardi and then Raffaele de Courten illustrates Italian command turnover, while Riccardi represents the naval-aviation expertise Italy lacked before the war.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
The series uses Cavagnari and other Axis chiefs to build a fairer benchmark for judging Karl Dönitz than a simple comparison with British or American admirals.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari ·
HMS Flamborough Head, later HMCS Cape Breton, shows how Liberty, Victory, Fort, and Park families supplied adaptable volume for mobile workshops as well as cargo.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
The scarcity of dedicated maintenance ships suggests that modern fleets are poorly equipped to repair damage and sustain operations through a prolonged conflict.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Interwar Royal Navy planning paired usable islands and ports with repair ships, depot vessels, and floating docks to support forces far from home bases.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Large wartime crews could move most ammunition and components by hand, while cranes and trolleys handled torpedoes and the heaviest shells.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Mobile workshops can shift among candidate islands and use electronic countermeasures to make support infrastructure harder to locate and strike.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Cape Breton's decompression chamber and specialist workshops show how a spacious hull can become a self-contained repair complex.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Canada's use of Cape Breton illustrates why anti-submarine fleets needed sustainment capacity closer to their operating areas.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Many famous wartime programmes accelerated prewar development rather than inventing whole ship types after fighting began.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Twenty-one Royal Navy repair ships reveal a major support programme hidden behind better-known merchant, escort-carrier, and landing-craft totals.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
A shortage of mechanics can cascade through a logistics system, exposing the wartime limits of lean, just-in-time assumptions.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Public procurement must preserve reliable service through disasters, damage, and war rather than optimize only for commercial efficiency.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Britain could project bombers and a carrier force toward the Falklands, while Argentina could not impose a comparable conventional threat on the British home islands.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Britain improvised support for the distant Falklands deployment despite having lacked purpose-built mobile repair for a likely Soviet conflict around the GIUK gap.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
The former HMS Flamborough Head remained useful as HMCS Cape Breton's floating machine shop into the 1990s, showing the durable value of repair infrastructure.
From Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory ·
Prince Fushimi's imperial-family connections explain why he carried unusual political weight inside Japan's naval leadership.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu ·
The profile argues that Fushimi's imperial connections continued to protect him when the American occupation assessed Japan's wartime leadership.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu ·
Follow Fushimi from early Japanese training through German and British study, war service, and rapid ascent in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu ·
Fushimi and Erich Raeder trained in Germany at roughly the same time, but the video warns against turning that coincidence into an Axis conspiracy story.
From Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu ·