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Early magnetic anomaly detection had limited depth reach, so it was most useful in shallow, constrained waters such as the Strait of Gibraltar where submarines could not pass far below the patrol aircraft.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
A modern armored cruiser is envisioned as a roughly 25,000-ton missile-and-gun ship whose nuclear plant supports the demanding electrical loads of lasers and railguns.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
The early losses of Courageous, Glorious, and Ark Royal are treated as failures of employment, command, or damage control rather than proof that British carrier design was inherently unsound.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Carrier radio beacons emerged in the mid-1930s, with the Royal Navy adopting them around 1936-37 and the US Navy following soon after.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Substituting Yamato and Nagato for the Kongos at Guadalcanal creates a much larger night action, but fuel, supply, engagement range, and American resistance still govern the outcome.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Replacing the fast Kongo-class bombardment ships with Fuso- and Ise-class battleships adds firepower but exposes slower, fuel-hungry ships to American attack for longer.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Armed forces do not need periodic wars to escape bureaucracy if realistic exercises allow genuine competition and leaders honestly examine the results.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Hitler expected Britain and France to keep backing down, then imagined they might tolerate an eastward war; the guarantee to Poland broke that expectation.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Although French-built Exocet missiles armed Argentina, France helped Britain by preventing important missile supplies from reaching Argentina until the war had ended.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Warships were used to move compact, exceptionally valuable cargo when speed, protection, and certainty of arrival mattered more than efficient carrying capacity.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Task Force 34 would probably defeat the Center Force, especially in a radar-directed night interception, though Japanese torpedoes and limited American armor-piercing ammunition leave room for a painful fight.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Severe Japanese carrier-aircrew losses are attributed chiefly to the combat situations and force-grouping choices imposed by operational doctrine, rather than to carrier design alone.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Armor does not make high-explosive fire harmless: blast strips exposed systems, injures crews, and repeated impacts can crack protection or overwhelm lighter ships.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Propellant pressure falls as a shell moves down the barrel, but a longer barrel gives the expanding gas more time and distance to transfer energy before the projectile exits.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
Victorious's survival against Indonesian Badgers carrying anti-ship missiles would depend on Sea Vixens intercepting before launch; once a large salvo was airborne, early missiles and electronic warfare could be overwhelmed.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? ·
A production tally shows Britain building dreadnoughts for itself and Brazil faster than Germany and the United States combined.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
The Royal Navy's large pre-dreadnought total leads into an explanation of maintained reserve ships, core crews, and trained reservists.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
Successive Dreadnought, Bellerophon, and St Vincent batches let Britain field a coherent turbine-powered battle line quickly.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
Similar building totals appear politically different when Germany benchmarks Britain and presents its fleet as an instrument of power rather than trade protection.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
Nassau combines an all-big-gun battery with triple-expansion machinery and a pre-dreadnought-like turret layout, making classification less clear-cut.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
Germany's location and rhetoric make its fleet more alarming to maritime-dependent Britain than similarly strong construction in distant America.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
North Dakota pairs ten 12-inch guns and superfiring turrets with turbines, making it the first American dreadnought in this comparison whose sustained capability Britain needs to match.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
The American catch-up becomes a warning against assuming that any one navy is universally more advanced than its rivals.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
Brazil enters the dreadnought competition with a British-built ship whose ten-gun broadside, long range, and superfiring layout rival contemporary designs.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
Building Minas Geraes lets British industry gain experience with superfiring and wing-turret arrangements while the Royal Navy continues its conservative production batches.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
A comparison of Nassau, Delaware, and Minas Geraes shows how turret placement can matter more than the number of turrets installed.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
Brazilian, American, and German choices show why navies retained familiar triple-expansion engines even as British turbine experience began to pay off.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
A closing fleet comparison places one British dreadnought in service, seven building, and a large pre-dreadnought reserve against newer foreign programs.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907 ·
Wing turrets promised extra ahead-and-astern fire, but muzzle blast could damage funnels, deck plating, machinery spaces, and nearby crew.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
Agincourt's seven centerline turrets offered heavy fire across broad arcs without relying on hazardous cross-deck wing-turret fire.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
Britain's large pre-dreadnought reserve gave it room to treat Dreadnought as a technological experiment while national survival rested on the existing battle fleet.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
The order for one Dreadnought and three battlecruisers reflected Fisher's judgment that securing Britain's worldwide trade was more urgent than adding another battleship group.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
British strategy connected commerce protection with the Suez Canal, distant calling stations, coaling access, and lessons from economic warfare in the Napoleonic Wars.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
Superstructure and blast limits made the Invincible class's cross-deck wing-turret fire impractical, leaving a dependable six-gun broadside.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
Thirty-one boilers and about 41,000 shaft horsepower pushed the lighter Invincibles to 25 knots, roughly four knots faster than Dreadnought.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
The Invincibles could protect British trade or attack an opponent's shipping, forcing rivals to consider battleship-strength escorts for merchant routes.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
Export income and imported infrastructure made maritime security especially important to South American states entering the dreadnought market.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
South Carolina continued an existing American all-big-gun design path but retained triple-expansion engines, two shafts, and an 18.5-knot top speed.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
Bellerophon retained Dreadnought's broad machinery, speed, displacement, and armor pattern while incorporating early operating experience.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
By 1906 Britain was already advancing multiple all-big-gun designs while most powers continued familiar pre-dreadnought programs as dependable insurance.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
A diplomatic warning matters only when the recipient believes sufficient military power stands behind it.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
Unified command, shared standards, logistics, exercises, and compatible systems make an experienced alliance more effective than the sum of national fleet totals.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906 ·
Tsushima's long-range fighting meets advances in turbines, armor, explosives, radio, and director control to make an all-big-gun battleship practical.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 1905 ·
The six-inch versus eight-inch cruiser comparison shows how repeated hits can matter more than the greater damage of one heavier shell.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 1905 ·
The twelve-inch gun offered HMS Dreadnought a practical balance of range, hitting power, rate of fire, and accuracy.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 1905 ·
Mikasa and HMS Agamemnon illustrate the mixed-calibre battleship type that remained in service after HMS Dreadnought changed its label.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 1905 ·
Italian, British, Japanese, and American work all fed the all-big-gun idea, while Tsushima reports and Parsons turbines shaped the British result.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 1905 ·
An Italian all-big-gun ship for Mediterranean opponents would not need the same range, speed, and sea-keeping as a British global-service battleship.
From Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 1905 ·