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A return to maintained naval yards with competitive bidding receives support, conditional on enough work to make the system viable.
From Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream! ·
More powerful aircraft in 1935 would leave warning time, treaties and the ability to absorb hits central to British carrier design.
From Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream! ·
Thread shape, internal seams and sharp edges matter when substitute pipe fittings carry electrical conductors.
From Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream! ·
Conduit sizing and an imagined control-board failure illustrate the tension between supervisory instructions and an electrician's professional judgment.
From Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream! ·
Timestamped photographs preserve the condition of completed wiring and help examine disputed reports of later faults.
From Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream! ·
The proposal connects historical battleship roles to modern technology while setting explicit limits on its engineering claims.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Battleships historically emerged from symmetrical naval competition, raising the question of whether renewed peer rivalry changes the Cold War verdict against them.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Armor absorbs damage and buys survival time; it was never expected to stop every shell or missile.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
The aircraft carrier and battleship had developed complementary roles before missiles and postwar fleet asymmetry removed the need for that partnership.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Development cost, production volume, and training infrastructure undermine claims that a battleship would offer an inexpensive alternative to carriers.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Interwar battleship training connected frequent gun drill with cleaner explosives and internal arrangements that made the ship easier to restore afterward.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Historic battleships combined visible national status, flagship facilities, port diplomacy, and a graduated warning short of deploying a whole battle fleet.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
The classic capital ship was expected to defeat its counterpart, contest control of the sea, and provide the staff spaces needed to command a fleet.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
A heavily armed surface capital ship could deliver conspicuous deterrence without the expense and escalation signal of deploying an entire carrier group.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Surfacing a submarine for diplomatic signaling reveals the position and acoustic identity that its combat value depends on concealing.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Briefly reaching hypersonic speed does not establish sustained performance across the weapon's full flight profile.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
A navy expanding from frigates and destroyers could use a larger ship to train more junior personnel without multiplying every senior command billet.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
A battleship's size and visible armament would give a port visit unusual reach through news coverage and social media.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
The proposed ship becomes the protected crewed center of a task group of uncrewed surface and subsurface vehicles.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
The strongest cases are navies that reject carriers as their prestige asset and fleets seeking concentrated firepower under tight crew limits.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
A four-way gas-turbine and diesel-electric plant would prioritize redundant power paths and maneuverable propulsion pods over a conventional two-shaft layout.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
American turbo-electric propulsion in the Lexington design supplies a historical precedent for distributing power to survive damage.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Small modular reactors remain possible, but the design emphasizes separated power sources and duplicate command stations inside protected spaces.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Large-hull redundancy, automated fire suppression, and SCADA monitoring improve survivability, while complex repairs still depend on human access and judgment.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Battleship-scale internal volume could support protected spare missile modules and machinery to replace empty or damaged vertical-launch cells.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Outer armor, subdivision, an inner armored citadel, and active defenses aim to prevent one penetrating missile from becoming a mission kill.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Concentrating a highly automated crew in a protected command cocoon opens the speculative option of making that space independently survivable after loss of the ship.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
The notional armament combines battleship-scale forward guns, hundreds of missile cells, lasers, and electronic defense.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
The ship's size supports the fleet's most capable sensor fit plus a configurable bay for helicopters, boats, containers, and uncrewed vehicles.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
Uncrewed sonar vehicles and helicopters form a moving anti-submarine screen around a hybrid of battleship, arsenal ship, modern combatant, and modular support vessel.
From 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship? ·
The historical foundation follows German military intermediaries, illicit industrial transfers, and early Soviet talks that stretched from rearmament to Poland.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
The postwar German refusal to accept defeat opens a difficult debate about whether ending a war quickly can leave the political conditions for another one.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
A public diplomatic settlement covered a network of joint bases where German and Soviet personnel preserved and extended prohibited military expertise.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
The 1918 naval air arm used small flying boats and mass-production strengths to pursue paratroop and long-range patrol ideas before carriers were buildable.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
The operational case for carriers changes sharply between confined Baltic and Black Sea waters and the infrastructure-poor Northern and Pacific theaters.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
The danger attached to failure in the Soviet system makes a small demonstrator more plausible than an unsupported leap to a fleet carrier.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
The unfinished Joffre class leaves open whether France could have turned Bearn's awkward experimental arrangements into a workable modern carrier system.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
A German carrier concept centered on reconnaissance and air defense could complement fast commerce-raiding warships.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
The scenario depends less on broad naval opposition than on whether a connected German officer could sustain the proposal.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
The first ship would likely be a converted, small-deck training platform modeled on USS Wolverine rather than an operational fleet carrier.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
The Caspian's isolation could make Allied awareness of a carrier project much easier than obtaining decisive proof of it.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
Germany and the Soviet Union reached their partnership from different kinds of isolation, but a shared outsider identity made cooperation easier to sustain.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
Even an experimental carrier could alter French, Japanese, and Italian assumptions about naval-aviation funding and force structure.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
An aviation-minded Soviet naval chief creates a plausible institutional window for a German-backed Caspian experiment around 1927-28.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
The Second Five-Year Plan's childcare and workforce policies are presented as both industrial mobilisation and a way to redirect social dependence toward party institutions.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
Experience from the Caspian demonstrator could place operational carriers within the Soviet Union's 1930s industrial expansion.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
The operational Soviet design is sketched as a scaled-up Kirov-class hull carrying roughly 40-50 aircraft.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·
Existing Baltic and Black Sea yards could lay down carriers around 1934-35 after years of Caspian operating experience.
From A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier? ·