References for checking Italian naval ammunition
Books on destroyers and naval weapons provide starting points for checking the Italian 100 mm ammunition claim.
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A later German fleet at Jutland
Later German ships could gain a major advantage at Jutland, while the accompanying submarines are predicted to decide the wider war.
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Wing Zero's firepower in a mech comparison
Wing Zero's firepower earns a tentative preference in a mech comparison whose opposing specifications remain uncertain.
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Could the unbuilt Duke of Kent appear in Tempesta?
A proposed four-deck first rate is considered as a possible Tempesta character.
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When a fictional warship has too many guns
Fictional armament claims can fail on ammunition volume and turret arithmetic before their weapons ever fire.
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Why age-of-sail rigs could not optimize only for windward sailing
Improving windward performance increased demands on crew, maintenance and provisions, so rig design remained a compromise.
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Why the Pogo and Roadrunner look alike
The Pogo and Roadrunner resemblance is attributed tentatively to similar requirements producing similar solutions.
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Should cheaper interceptors be carried by every ship?
Close-range threats near the Red Sea and Suez Canal support an argument for distributing cheaper interceptors across ships.
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Could the Molins gun serve postwar small craft?
The autoloading Molins six-pounder receives a favourable assessment for small craft, with its aircraft and boat installations providing the comparison.
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Carracks, galleys and favorite age-of-sail fleets
Age-of-sail fleet preferences lead to a Portuguese example in which a carrack supplies most of a mixed fleet's fighting power.
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Dutch firepower and the amphibious objective at Taiwan
A powerful warship force still has to stop an enemy landing, making individual ship strength an incomplete measure of success.
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Portuguese carrack height and firepower against galley boarding
A recalled Portuguese encounter with Gujarati galleys illustrates how hull height, cannon and weapons against boarding could offset a numerical disadvantage.
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Science-fiction anime beyond space battles
Anime preferences include space warfare and cyberpunk, while Girls und Panzer prompts a debate about what counts as science fiction.
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Building a task group from ships of different weapon eras
A mixed gun-and-missile fleet can assign positions by weapon range, although the fictional setting's ship builds limit the analogy.
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Books for introducing young children to naval subjects
Children's naval books offer different introductions to seafaring history and to a parent's work in the Navy.
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Choosing a naval posting in 1939 without knowing the war's outcome
A 1939 posting thought experiment turns from ships to shore establishments and the limits on women's service at sea.
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Why a shore base can be a stone frigate
Shore establishments retain ship names through the naval practice of assigning personnel to a named ship.
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A role-play Admiral-class battlecarrier conversion
An invented conversion combines an Admiral-class hull, heavy guns and a flight deck.
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Could a BattleTech drone fleet deter the Succession Wars?
A villain-choice question turns into a dispute over whether 120 automated capital ships could change BattleTech's political conflicts.
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Watching the Oort cloud in Stargate
Remote monitoring stations offer a proposed way to watch Stargate's vast Oort cloud, supplemented by occasional ship patrols.
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Defending three Okinawa-sized islands in a 1917 scenario
With weak ports and two months without major support, an island defence needs weapons that can be landed quickly and positions that buy time.
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Keeping six-inch coastal guns alive under bombardment
Dispersed batteries and retractable gun positions would make capital ships work through mines and several firing positions.
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Building a usable wharf before a full naval base
An unloading quay for heavy coastal guns requires less infrastructure than a base able to maintain capital ships.
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Could attackers bypass a coastal battery by landing elsewhere?
Fifteen-inch coastal guns are proposed with enough elevation and traverse to engage troops landing away from the main battery.
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Adding boats and prefabricated works to island defenses
Small craft, possible submarine shelters and prefabricated concrete works would extend an island defence after its first guns arrived.
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Building an island quay with concrete blocks and compacted fill
A proposed quay uses concrete-block walls, earth and rock fill, and a concrete surface to create an unloading point.
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Concrete and earth in a 1917 coastal fort
A disagreement over early concrete leads to a combined defence of earth cover, reinforced structures and protected gun positions.
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When a fictional military unit's brutality undermines its purpose
A least-liked Space Marine chapter question tests whether deliberate brutality fits the Imperium's military and political institutions.
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Do successor Space Marine chapters need a distinct identity?
A disagreement over Angels of Vengeance and Novamarines asks how much a successor chapter needs to differ from its parent.
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Alpha Legion counterplots and the loss of strategic purpose
Competing readings of the Alpha Legion examine how elaborate plans and assumed enemy countermeasures can obscure a strategic objective.
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Why Vanguard's cafeteria change angered sailors
Replacing sailors' mess menus with cafeteria meals threatened familiar food choices, especially preferred desserts.
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The geographic scale of naval air defence
City, regional and ocean areas provide a way to compare how much sea successive air-defence systems can cover.
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Why a crossing missile can be harder to intercept
Compare attacks approaching a screened task group with weapons crossing a distant part of a ship's defended area.
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Wartime defensive systems and peacetime guidelines
The Falklands example explains why peacetime limits on operating defensive systems cannot be assumed to govern their use in combat.
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Could battleship guns defend against Zeppelins in 1906?
Early air defence considered firing battleship guns at distant Zeppelins, then confronted limited elevation, slow fire and the need to reach high targets.
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Early balloon-defence guns and awkward mountings
Early British and German anti-aircraft weapons show how adapting a gun to fire upwards created problems of mounting, aiming and loading.
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Close, point, area and interdiction defence
Define the defensive layers around a fleet and see why their distances change with period, service and geography.
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Radar detection also reveals the transmitter
Radar gives a fleet warning of an attack, but its transmitted signal can also reveal the radar to a receiver farther away.
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Torpedo bombers and the problem of sinking a ship
The 1916 torpedo-bomber threat introduces the distinction between damaging a ship and creating flooding or fire that its crew cannot control.
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Which F35: the 1916 torpedo bomber or the modern fighter?
The shared F35 designation prompts a comparison with the early torpedo bomber and its uncertain production history.
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Was the early F35 delivered within budget?
Probably, although the judgment is tentative and the Germans had no further budget available.
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Why the 3-inch gun suited air defence in 1916
The 3-inch gun combined a useful shell and rapid fire with a supply and training system the Royal Navy already possessed.
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Gun coverage and visual detection in 1916
Compare the 3-inch gun and Mark II pom-pom while separating nominal weapon reach from what lookouts could see and engage.
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How aircraft speed consumes the defender's firing time
An FF35 approaching at 114 kilometres an hour illustrates why faster aircraft force defenders to detect and engage at longer range.
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Torpedo-bomber payloads and the need to find the fleet
Interwar strike aircraft had to divide their capacity between useful weapons and the fuel needed to locate ships before attacking them.
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The Blackburn Blackburn as visual airborne early warning
An aircraft circling above the fleet could extend the lookout horizon and sometimes give fighters enough warning to meet an attack.
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Cheap attacking aircraft and concentrated machine-gun fire
The relative cost of losing aircraft helped make repeated air attacks attractive, while defenders developed mounts that could put more fire into the sky.
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Is the pictured quadruple mounting a pom-pom?
A listener's identification prompts a distinction between a Vickers quadruple machine-gun mounting and a pom-pom.
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