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A 20-inch gun was conceivable, but its weight, recoil, and stability demands would force Japan toward an even larger and more difficult battleship.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Interesting submarine concepts were weakened by operational choices and an attraction to specialized midget boats.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
The projecting bow of an age of sail hull was often less structurally integral than the bow of a modern destroyer.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Japan could contemplate fighting one great naval power only while the other was distracted or politically neutralized.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
No One Avoided Danger earns praise for research and storytelling despite presentation that undersells its account of the Japanese attack on the naval air station.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Washington opposed Japanese expansion because it threatened American interests and a wider claim to Pacific predominance.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Continued modernization could have produced eight flight decks, fast battleships, more cruisers, and several flotillas of large destroyers.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
The all-forward armament protected an aft aviation area, though a lighter cruiser may have been better suited to the reconnaissance role.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Long-range conventional anti-ship missiles face accuracy limits while mass launches risk being mistaken for nuclear attacks.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Occupying Hawaii and disabling the Panama Canal could have pushed the United States back to the West Coast and bought Japan time.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Ceylon was the likelier Indian Ocean base, but duplicating dockyards and fleet support outside Britain carried a prohibitive domestic cost.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
A merchant ship packed with explosives offered a covert route to damaging locks and delaying fleet movement between the Atlantic and Pacific.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Argentina interpreted British retrenchment as abandonment while London assumed its underlying commitment remained obvious.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Britain, the United States, and Japan already knew how to refuel at sea; wartime expansion changed the scale, not the invention.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
By the time Allied surface forces could reach Japanese routes in strength, sanctions and war had already removed much of the traffic.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
The tall superstructures created serious stability concerns without being as robust as their crowded appearance suggested.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Britain still held large mineral reserves, but deposits could be too expensive to work when cheaper supplies were available elsewhere.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Japanese officers recognized the weapon's weaknesses but lacked the spare industrial capacity to replace it quickly.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Changing the British commander would not remove the Combined Fleet's deeper problem of crews unable to handle their ships effectively.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Planning for a war with the other major naval power was professional preparedness, not proof that either government intended to start one.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
The Indian Ocean offered a less exposed route and possible support from German East Africa, but coal scarcity and British squadrons still made destruction likely.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
British leaders remembered Eisenhower as a wartime allied general rather than a president constrained by Cold War and domestic politics.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Japanese submarine ideas were undermined by build quality, support infrastructure, and an uneven willingness to heed experienced NCOs.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Treating The Art of War as the single key to Chinese strategy erases a much wider and internally varied intellectual tradition.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
A stronger defense would pull scattered troops into Singapore, deny forward airfields, fortify approaches, and protect the reservoir.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
A carrier was worth risking when its air group might suppress German bases, protect an evacuation, and preserve the possibility of retaking Crete.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Treaty relief would give the Tribals 4.5-inch guns, the Battle class an aft mount, and the Towns modest gains in range and protection.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
The North African and Mediterranean wars absorbed troops and leaders who otherwise could have reinforced Malaya and Singapore.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Before reliable fire-control radar, rapid 6-inch fire could disable exposed sensors and systems more reliably than theoretical 8-inch range promised.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
A surviving Prince of Wales would probably withdraw toward Australia before joining the Royal Navy's Eastern Fleet.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
British bombers repeatedly dropped mines into the Kiel Canal to obstruct a strategically important German waterway.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Japan fielded naval landing units, but the army retained the principal responsibility for large amphibious operations.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
American operating practice and ship layouts were more manpower-intensive, while British designs used space to let fewer sailors perform comparable work.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Indian, Gurkha, African, and other Commonwealth troops were not excluded; their sequencing depended on ongoing Asian operations and invasion needs.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
The ships would have been divided among the Allies, but treaties and obsolescence would likely remove most before the next war.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Dedicated 4-inch antiaircraft guns complemented the cruiser's 6-inch surface battery without using larger 4.5-inch ammunition to duplicate the main armament's role.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Hood carried stronger external armor, but Renown's finer internal subdivision offered more resilience after a projectile penetrated the belt.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Weapons designed for distant engagements cannot deliver their promise when a fleet lacks sensors and fire control to find and track the target.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Good companies and battalions could not compensate for weak brigade and divisional coordination or for experienced leaders being committed elsewhere.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Submarines could not replace destroyers, cruisers, carriers, and access to the open ocean in solving Germany's wider naval problem.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Alternating two battleships near Malaya would not protect them from Japanese aircraft without a credible air-defense system.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Convoys require vast numbers of small escorts, and Japan never redirected enough construction toward that unglamorous fleet.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Some T-class submarines apparently used the full bow salvo, although staggered four-torpedo attacks would preserve a reserve.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Italy expected land bases to cover the Mediterranean, overlooking the persistence and responsiveness of organic carrier aviation.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
American doctrine combined organized formations with more local initiative than the tightly centralized Japanese system.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Hearing air escape as the Japanese submarine sinks gives an operational and cargo loss an immediate physical presence.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Major powers considered the possibility, but few politically useful minor states possessed yards able to build a qualifying capital ship.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·
Greater oil and iron wealth would still leave Italy inside treaty ceilings unless it deliberately triggered escalation, so replacing old ships takes priority.
From Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A ·