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Destroying the High Seas Fleet might cost Britain a third of its own fleet and erase officers who otherwise become familiar Royal Navy leaders in the Second World War.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
An established 20,000-ton, 9.2-inch cruiser category displaces the Hawkins class and forces any arms treaty to regulate a powerful middle tier.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
If the war ends in 1916 before American entry, the diplomatic coalition and political motive for a Washington-style naval settlement may never exist.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
Unrestricted Tiger Cub-sized cruisers would weaken a battleship limit, creating pressure for separate cruiser, carrier, and capital-ship ceilings.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
Proposed British and American quotas reflect ships already built and the reconnaissance duties of carriers, with a higher Japanese ratio for large cruisers.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
A 40,000-ton battleship ceiling could support three faster Nelson-type ships and a later King George V design with twelve 14-inch guns.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
Larger shells demand heavier turret machinery, potentially making 9.2-inch guns a better fit for a cruiser tonnage limit than the permitted 10-inch maximum.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
The Tiger Cub would supply the numerous, globally useful third-rate warship missing from the First World War fleet.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
The dreadnought building campaign demonstrates why politics, rather than money or yards alone, best explains the absence of a Tiger Cub order.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
Tiger Cubs would not save Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue, but their newer subdivision might make the replacement cruiser force more resistant to torpedo damage.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
Numerous modern 9.2-inch cruisers make Deutschland-type raiders less compelling and push battleship and cruiser designs into different treaty tradeoffs.
From Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers' ·
The A-5 Vigilante began as a carrier-based nuclear bomber and became a fast tactical reconnaissance specialist.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
Surviving A-5 and RA-5C airframes are traced to museums, former naval air stations, and other display sites.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
The A-5's unusual linear bomb bay ejected a nuclear weapon and empty fuel tanks rearward between its two engines.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
The Vigilante combined blown flaps, spoilers, moving tail surfaces, and the first variable-geometry engine intakes fitted to a production aircraft.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
Catapult launch and arrested recovery let US carriers operate unusually heavy specialist aircraft such as the Vigilante alongside the rest of an air wing.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
Vigilante losses are set against the dangerous missions it repeatedly flew to locate enemy air defenses and protect later strike aircraft.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
Service aboard Forrestal, Kitty Hawk, Enterprise, John F. Kennedy, and early Nimitz-class carriers made the Vigilante part of the US Navy's worldwide Cold War presence.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
North American answered the unsuccessful Super Savage project with a privately funded strategic strike aircraft built for speed, range, and nuclear delivery.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
The A-5 had to launch by catapult without wind over the deck while retaining the speed and maneuverability needed for strategic penetration.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
Early Vigilante difficulties separate a technology's theoretical promise from an operator's understanding of its practical limits.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
The RA-5C gave the Vigilante a second career as the US carrier fleet's specialist reconnaissance aircraft during the Vietnam War.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
Successive moves from Sanford to Albany and then Key West imposed logistical and personnel costs on the RA-5C squadrons.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
The RA-5C remained effective at reconnaissance, but scarce carrier deck space favored more flexible multirole aircraft.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
The RA-5C's retirement is compared with British efforts to combine torpedo, spotting, reconnaissance, fighter, and dive-bomber duties in fewer carrier airframes.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
Fast reconnaissance flights gathered intelligence while signaling that a US carrier could observe and reach events far beyond the horizon.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
The Vigilante's original mission mattered because participation in nuclear strike planning helped determine a US armed service's strategic relevance during the 1950s.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
A record-setting Vigilante carried a 1,000-kilogram payload above 91,000 feet, temporarily losing aerodynamic control at the top of its ballistic climb.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
The closing design question asks how a modern aircraft could reproduce the Vigilante's rapid low-level approach, sensor pop-up, and escape profile.
From The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10 ·
Incompatible diplomatic customs and Japan's fragmented politics made a Roosevelt summit exceptionally difficult.
From What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 108 ·
The threat of armed domestic opposition made a peace policy difficult to enforce even with imperial support.
From What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 108 ·
Hirohito possessed real authority, exercised through institutions that sharply limited direct rule.
From What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 108 ·
Togo's personal connections may have preserved an advisory relationship with Hirohito through a successor outside ordinary cabinet office.
From What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 108 ·
Hirohito's scientific interests did not offer an escape from succession: as Taisho's eldest son, he was prepared from childhood to become emperor.
From What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 108 ·
Taisho wanted to advance democracy and prepared Hirohito for the throne with Admiral Togo Heihachiro as tutor and protector.
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The genro supplied trusted imperial advice and helped select prime ministers outside the written constitution.
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The last publicly acknowledged genro survived the 1936 coup attempt and remained an opponent of army dominance.
From What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 108 ·
An explicitly disputed hypothesis proposes that personal imperial advisers continued less publicly after the acknowledged genro died.
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Konoe's weak cabinet and Matsuoka's diplomacy repeatedly undercut attempts to reach an understanding with Washington.
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Matsuoka changed a draft understanding while Konoe was ill, leaving the prime minister unable to reverse it without exposing cabinet divisions.
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Matsuoka's expectation of a quick German victory accompanied a reversal from advocating an attack on Singapore to opposing it.
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Tojo treated anything short of an explicit imperial refusal as approval, while the constitutional system discouraged such direct refusals.
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The navy's warning about two years of oil reserves went directly to Hirohito through the military command system.
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Imperial family members might theoretically advise in that fashion, but they would not necessarily command Tojo's trust or obedience.
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Konoe offered to meet Roosevelt, but competing proposals and a mid-October deadline kept military preparations moving.
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The requirement for army and navy officers as service ministers gave each armed service an effective veto over civilian government.
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Konoe told Grew he could travel immediately to meet Roosevelt even as the cabinet pursued its conditional timetable for war.
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Yonai's service as navy minister and prime minister, diplomatic contacts, and reported protection from political violence underpin his proposed return to office.
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