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An altered-force simulation tests how an early hit could force Germany to choose between escape and protecting a damaged ship.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
A major German defeat could cost experienced commanders as well as ships, while larger British light forces press the retreat.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
A depleted German scouting force could leave Britain more willing to risk fast ships in raids along the German coast.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
If the newer ships absorbed damage well, their performance could strengthen the case for another fast-battleship generation.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
A victory that prevents a Jutland-like battle could leave later navies without some of its hard-earned operational lessons.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
Greater British battlecruiser strength would trigger earlier German army opposition only if Germany spent beyond its historical naval plan.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
The question uses HMS New Zealand's wartime survival record to joke that 13.5-inch guns would make an already fortunate ship even harder to stop.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
The larger British force cannot be treated as a simple replacement pool because its first major battle would change whether and how a later Jutland occurred.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
The likely alternatives are an eight-gun 28-knot Queen Elizabeth or a longer ten-gun ship at roughly 26 knots.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
Improved machinery could pass into the R class and leave Renown and Repulse with eight 15-inch guns.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
Italy has the strongest incentive to accelerate the Francesco Caracciolo fast battleships if Britain demonstrates a 28-knot capital ship by 1914.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
An available triple-turret design does not make a twelve-gun Queen Elizabeth likely in this interpretation.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
A very fast ship with smaller guns might gain tactical freedom, but it would not satisfy the prestige demands that drove prewar capital-ship procurement.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
A decisive North Sea victory could increase British willingness to accept losses at Gallipoli without adding more capital ships.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
Austro-Hungarian turret arrangements could confer regional prestige without meeting Britain's different expectations as the leading maritime power.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
Germany would probably continue limited sorties until a decisive loss removed the First Scouting Group, the force needed to raid, scout, and draw Britain into traps.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
Attaching a battlecruiser squadron gives Harwich Force heavy cover but may weaken its effectiveness by displacing Commodore Tyrwhitt's command.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
Hull geometry, strength, stability, and hydrodynamics make fuselage-style length variants much harder to standardize in warship families.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
A fast-battleship starting design could change Admiral-class protection and completion, with different outcomes for the R and Renown programmes.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
A German fleet hiding after an early defeat would increase the value of carrier-supported torpedo aircraft able to reach it.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
Permanent Dominion flagships remain possible, while a fast Admiral class could encourage American replacement programmes and obstruct a treaty.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
The Royal Navy preferred a shorter 45-calibre weapon when its longer barrel life outweighed the extra range of a 50-calibre gun.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
Submarine losses would still expose underwater and low-freeboard problems even if a decisive Dogger Bank prevented Jutland.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
A viewer challenges whether the suggested Tiger-derived Admiral adequately addresses underwater protection.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
The closing clarification places the proposed Admirals after Queen Elizabeth and the R class in design ancestry.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
The final design estimate puts a possible 30-knot fast battleship at roughly 48,000-50,000 tons.
From Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI... ·
Constellation went from a supposedly low-risk FREMM derivative to a heavily altered design with little commonality left.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
The December 2025 update covers British hulls afloat, the Norwegian delivery commitment, and Australia's Mogami choice.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
A compatibility question distinguishes allied operating relationships from shared engineering and equipment.
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The reported 2028 launch target makes a proven cutter hull attractive, but reopening production and controlling changes remain unresolved.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
Changed weapons and poor material readiness lead to different assessments of what Russia's Black Sea losses imply for frigates.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
Powerful American heavy frigates and numerous British patrol frigates illustrate how a navy's wider fleet determines what its smaller ships must do.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
A South Korean design transfer and container-carrying autonomous vessels offer contrasting ideas for increasing American surface-ship numbers.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
Future task groups could use crewed frigates and destroyers to provide command, deterrence, and human presence for uncrewed wingmen.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
The proposed division gives frigates a primary ASW role while larger destroyer sensors support area air defence.
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The Type 83's mooted tethered-drone radar shows how gaining sensor height creates difficult aviation, cable, weather, and station-keeping problems.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
Hypersonic weapons are a grave threat within the recurring historical contest between offensive innovations and new counters.
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The notional Golden Fleet's endurance question leads to a concrete example of a carrier group losing replenishment support.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
The cutter alternative offers a buildable hull, but even that restart may leave the Navy waiting years for new frigates.
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A conventional gun-and-VLS Zumwalt could have preserved a modern hull and avoided another disruptive return to Burke production.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
A debate over Zumwalt's 155 mm gun separates common ammunition from sharing the expensive electronics inside guided shells.
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Mercogliano contrasts the requirements of drone-threatened merchant escort with a possible long-range underwater-drone threat.
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Leadership appointments and branch identity prompt differing interpretations of surface-versus-submarine priorities.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
The Knox and Perry comparison challenges the claim that surface frigates have lost their purpose.
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A proposed LST 100-derived landing ship program is presented as a test of whether named ownership and tightly controlled change orders can preserve a foreign design.
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Chinese construction and British Astute and Type 45 examples connect repeated building to learning, cost, and the number of deployable ships.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·
A class still being completed can already have lost the fabrication workers needed to start its next hull.
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Offshore Patrol Cutter and fleet-tug overruns show that American construction problems extend far below the complexity of a front-line frigate.
From What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping ·