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Rounded flight-deck ends were intended to improve airflow, but square edges were cheaper and demanded fewer scarce skilled shipyard hours.
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American wartime output could mobilize vast numbers of workers, but apprentices still needed years to become rounded tradespeople and yards had spent years minimizing expensive skilled labor.
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Continuous interwar construction would probably recycle respected battleship names after replacing the aging Revenge and Queen Elizabeth classes.
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The diplomatic and strike utility of Ohio guided-missile submarines makes future conversions or purpose-built replacements likely.
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The RFA cannot solve its manning crisis without paying merchant mariners a competitive market rate.
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Used textbooks and a personal collection of cited extracts can make printed study material more affordable when digital copies are harder to use.
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A planned Mikasa video will use the battleship to explain the leadership choices behind Japan's Six-Six Fleet and its path to Tsushima rather than present specifications alone.
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The absence of Victoria Cross recommendations is explained as a judgment about expected duty, alongside the reluctance to reopen cases for very late awards.
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Replacing Britain's battleships with the fictional Conqueror would give it an overwhelming capital-ship force in this scenario and could deter Italy from entering the war.
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Mikasa may not be the oldest surviving Vickers-built vessel, and her altered preserved condition makes precise superlatives and provenance claims worth checking carefully.
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Different approaches to public information explain why an analyst may discuss modern naval systems with stated limits or prefer historical subjects.
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Japanese ships inherit a curry recipe with their name, then develop a version for the new vessel.
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Competing suggestions for unlucky ship names include Revenge, Acasta, Titan, and Titanic, followed by jokes about flower-named classes and future Black Swan sloops.
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The proposed reading list gives Fisher a long view of British naval power plus practical evidence about later battleships and destroyers that his dockyards could begin to use.
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A proposed warning about transferring naval aviation to the RAF raises the question of whether Fisher would trust deliberately partisan scholarship.
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Mikasa was busy with visitors of all ages on two consecutive days, including Japanese guests and U.S. Seventh Fleet personnel who came to meet the ShipShape team.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 11 Mikasa the Beautiful & Ship Shape fun ·
Mikasa's deck, six-inch gun, and bilingual displays show how the preserved ship presents its history to visitors.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 10 More Mikasa & Musings of a Fluffy Submarine! ·
A museum display places John Paul Jones beside Horatio Nelson and a third admiral, prompting a comparison between guerrilla-style service and more conventional fleet action and cruising.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 10 More Mikasa & Musings of a Fluffy Submarine! ·
A brief museum visit near Yokosuka's naval base notes industrial-period displays and the town's naval character.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 9 Yokosuka its beautiful & full of History ·
Mikasa's command position illustrates the tension between protecting senior officers and giving them the best information in battle.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 8 Some more Mikasa thinking on command... ·
Mikasa's painting and floor markers help interpret the command post, while the feeling that this was a place of consequential decisions comes with a caveat about prior reading and imagination.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 8 Some more Mikasa thinking on command... ·
The opening reframes technological conservatism as a choice shaped by mission requirements, uncertainty, and competing advantages.
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Steam freed ships from the wind but imposed coal, repair, boiler, and supporting-infrastructure demands that sail avoided.
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Navies balance fear of falling behind against fear that an unproved choice will render expensive equipment useless.
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Famous ironclad encounters can obscure how much American Civil War naval fighting still depended on wooden and improvised vessels.
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The Battle of Lissa shows ironclads, wooden ships of the line, screw vessels, and paddle craft fighting in the same fleet.
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Pre-dreadnoughts, HMS Victory, and HMS Warrior show how maintained ships remained useful long after newer types appeared.
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When yards and iron production could not supply enough armored ships, wooden vessels preserved the numbers needed for worldwide tasks.
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The 92-gun Kaiser brought dangerous firepower and theoretical vulnerability into an ironclad battle, yet survived heavy action.
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Breech loading promised faster, protected handling, but doubts about large-gun breech strength delayed Royal Navy adoption.
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The gun choice weighed frequent crew exposure against the rarer possibility that a breech explosion could destroy a turret or reach the magazine.
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The Dantons matched French production limits and a close-range Mediterranean concept even though HMS Dreadnought had changed battleship design.
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France chose six useful Dantons over a much smaller number of cutting-edge ships while rebuilding yards and institutional expertise.
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Carrier aviation was a coming capability in the late 1930s, but its 1945 reach and striking power could not be assumed in prewar procurement.
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Better aircraft and radar pushed battleships out of the primary striking role without making their command, escort, and bombardment capabilities immediately useless.
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Missiles excel at specialized attacks, while a dual-purpose deck gun supplies cheaper shots, general utility, and deeper ammunition reserves.
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Technology enthusiasm becomes dangerous when a navy removes the proven capability that insures it against an immature replacement.
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The Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships used fiberglass-coated wood for blast resistance and a low magnetic signature.
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The closing challenge asks where a force truly needs technological superiority and where mission coverage requires cheaper mass.
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Many modern surface combatants perform the traditional peacetime cruising role, while destroyer and frigate labels describe their wartime functions.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 7 Mikasa thinking about Sloops ·
Future task groups are imagined with crewed warships at the centre and uncrewed vessels forming the outer elements of each group.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 7 Mikasa thinking about Sloops ·
Mikasa's historical setting prompts a proposal to call adaptable uncrewed vessels "sloops," reflecting their role in doing whatever larger ships require.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 7 Mikasa thinking about Sloops ·
After reaching Mikasa just before 9:00 and finding the site already closed, this first exterior view sets up a return when the museum opens the next morning.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 6 Mikasa first look & hunt for Irn Bru ·
Mikasa's surviving hull and 12-inch guns are set against the nearby United States Navy presence in Yokosuka.
From #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 6 Mikasa first look & hunt for Irn Bru ·
The J-15 is a 4.5-generation aircraft and China's first operational carrier fighter. Its greater value was the experience required to build and operate a carrier air arm.
A comparison of STOBAR and catapult carriers explains the J-15's takeoff-weight limits and reinforced structure for arrested landings.
The J-15 gave early Chinese carrier groups an outer defensive layer even without matching the most advanced offensive fighters.
Shenyang's experience with the J-2, J-8, and J-11 created the industrial foundation for China's carrier fighter.