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Italy retained a small naval presence at Tientsin, but its auxiliary minelayer and gunboat could not support a combat submarine force deep in East Asian waters.
From Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography? ·
In this critique, limits on cruisers, destroyers, and submarines removed capabilities navies needed more urgently than the capital ships constrained at Washington.
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Mario Falangola and Antonio Legnani oversaw doctrine, communications, and supporting systems, then chose Mussolini's Italian Social Republic.
From Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography? ·
Later leaders inherited a balanced fleet roadmap but lacked the professional and political independence needed to understand and adapt it.
From Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography? ·
Pedestal showed the payoff of aggressive attacks, but nearly half of Italian submarine losses came from 1942 onward as the fleet took greater risks it could not replace.
From Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography? ·
An incoming hypersonic weapon presents a different interception problem from a target crossing an air-defense system's field of fire.
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Slowing for precise terminal maneuvers can improve a missile's chance of hitting while reducing the defensive difficulty created by its speed.
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The proposed 21st-century battleship is a crewed command and support hub surrounded by uncrewed sensors and anti-submarine escorts.
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The effect of a high-speed missile depends on where it strikes and whether the damage admits water or creates an uncontrollable fire, not speed alone.
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Missiles attacking a warship generally converge on the defended force, while land-based air defenses must protect an area against threats crossing many different paths.
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Reported Houthi hits face a credibility problem: damage and possible casualties would be difficult to conceal across a warship's crew and their wider contacts.
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Torpedoes can sink battleships, but vulnerability alone does not determine a warship's usefulness or the value of its missions.
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A 30-mile torpedo attack must contend with submarines, airborne ASW, remote sonar arrays, detection networks, and decoys before it reaches the battleship.
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Hypersonic weapons enter an established defensive contest involving combat air patrols, area and point defense, electronic warfare, decoys, guns, and directed energy.
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Expensive hypersonic weapons are most likely to be reserved for valuable targets that operate inside larger formations rather than in isolated ship-versus-missile contests.
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Conventional anti-ship ballistic missiles carry an escalation problem because an opponent may initially interpret their launch as strategic or nuclear.
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The growth of microwave weapons against drone swarms raises the possibility that a warship's powerful search radar may have effects beyond detection.
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The proposed battleship would aim to remain operational after hits and give the crew a safe way out if the ship could no longer be saved.
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A shaped charge can penetrate armor yet still be stopped before reaching the next compartment, vital machinery, or missile cells.
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The concept favors thrusters and podded or impeller-based propulsion over conventional shafts and propellers.
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The battleship concept adapts the arsenal ship's concentrated firepower into a vessel intended for peacetime duties as well as war.
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Sacrificial compartments and duplicated systems allow a smaller crew to concentrate on keeping the core ship afloat and operational.
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A future force could pair the reusable battleship hub and its uncrewed screen with disposable missile trucks if missile prices fall far enough.
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Large navies may preserve and periodically update contingency designs even when no active battleship construction program exists.
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China's repeated lack of interest in marketed Russian Leader designs may reflect a doctrinal mismatch rather than a simple judgment about the ships themselves.
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Remote monitoring and spare systems support an estimated crew of about 300 by allowing maintenance teams to switch equipment over and work normal shifts.
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Carrier crews sustain embarked aircraft and troops as well as the hull, so large escorts offer a better manning comparison for this battleship concept.
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A heavily armed surface combatant may appeal to a regional navy that cannot fund carrier aviation but still needs deterrence, presence, and diplomatic utility.
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Modern carriers are much larger largely because their aircraft and aviation spaces grew, not because shipboard electrical requirements increased in direct proportion.
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Adding more jobs to destroyers helps explain why modern examples have grown so large.
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The postwar move from cruisers to frigates and destroyers for presence missions often reduced fleet numbers without producing much smaller individual ships.
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Solid projectiles dominated test programs, but electromagnetic launch does not inherently exclude more complex or guided payloads if their electronics are protected.
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Explosive reactive armor offers protection on paper but creates an uncomfortable combination of explosive modules and persistent saltwater corrosion.
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Water, coal, and redundant machinery provide examples of useful mass within protective layers, so an incoming weapon faces more than empty compartments.
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Nuclear propulsion is a doubtful choice for a frontline battleship, while a small reactor inside a separable crew-survival pod is more plausible.
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A viewer's mash-up of Vittorio Veneto's aft aviation facilities with boats, drones, helicopters, and numerous 76 mm guns broadly resembles the concept, except for its much heavier primary guns.
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A viewer links laser horizon limits to the value of a protected firing platform; lasers already formed part of the proposed battleship concept.
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Modern submarines lack the surface-stability profile of older submersibles, so firing a 16-inch gun could dangerously destabilize the boat.
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The battleship's exact embarked complement would be a design choice, though it would likely include marines or equivalent personnel for boarding and landing tasks.
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Spare propulsion pods would retract to limit drag, deploy for low-speed maneuvering, and provide a get-home capability after damage to the main units.
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Combustible light-gas propulsion promises high performance but creates hazardous storage and power-generation problems aboard a ship already exposed to battle damage.
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A procurement critique favors capacity for later weapon installation and argues that the Zumwalt experience damaged railguns' reputation despite continuing technical progress.
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A long-range torpedo must cross a distributed sonar screen and reach a maneuvering target; neither quiet running nor under-keel detonation guarantees a hit.
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The concept requires industrial rebuilding, while the suggestion of half a trillion dollars per ship is doubted and qualified by future inflation.
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A 16-inch bore leaves room for possible missile payloads while avoiding the extreme weight and maneuvering difficulties of much larger guns.
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The proposed armor protects ammunition stores against a vulnerability already shared by gun-armed and missile-armed warships.
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Claims that Russian and Chinese defenses work while Western systems are helpless require the same scrutiny as optimistic claims from the opposite side.
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The uncrewed task group is integral to the battleship concept and supplies the anti-submarine defenses that an isolated hull would lack.
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