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A Lion with three forward triple turrets is not automatically inferior, but its wartime utility depends on the threats it would actually face.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Faster modernized battleships could reduce Hood's priority because the Royal Navy still regarded her as a battlecruiser suited to secondary roles.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Very large carriers supported nuclear-capable aircraft, but their deeper value was generating enough strike power to overcome defended targets.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Earlier construction could produce 15-inch-gun British battleships sooner, but it would reshape the entire replacement program rather than simply add ships.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
The fate of a large alternative Argentine destroyer fleet depends on enduring budgets, crews, ports, and political choices rather than a single purchase decision.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
A German program of numerous 11-inch-gun cruisers could pose a wider commerce-defense problem than a small number of headline capital ships.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
A ship's battle ensign was a clean, carefully kept version of its normal ensign, ready to fly visibly and smartly once action began.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
American and Japanese naval professionals watched British carrier operations closely even when the public saw little more than aircraft flying over the South China Sea.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Increasing Graf Spee's installed diesel power may add some speed, but her hull form was optimized for range rather than extreme top speed.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
A longer, narrower hull generally favors efficient high speed, while a shorter, broader hull tends to favor maneuverability.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Climate testing matters, but peacetime firing and ammunition handling do not reproduce the sustained pace of war.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Cruisers and destroyers are broadly adaptable, while a ship used outside its intended role may be ineffective without being irrationally specialized.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Saving ammunition volume offers less advantage at sea than in armored vehicles or aircraft, while conventional shells remain comparatively cheap to buy in quantity.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Two technical histories provide useful English-language entry points into early German submarine development, while their interpretations still merit comparison.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Design and test dates can disprove a neat causal story when the weapon already existed before the event said to have shaped it.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
A letter of marque would place private armed ships under a state's flag while leaving the state responsible for conduct it cannot fully control.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
The disliked Balaney sea-going torpedo boats stand for a broader loss of French battle-fleet prestige, infrastructure, and coherent design after the Franco-Prussian War.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Two autoloading 127 mm mounts and a floatplane do not establish whether a small destroyer works without torpedo, anti-submarine, and air-defense requirements.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Bucket-fed shower heads blur the boundary between a true plumbed shower and the much older practice of pouring water over a sailor.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Keeping French yards on a steadier ironclad program could avoid the small, compromised Terrible-class path, but it requires a different political and industrial commitment.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Triple-expansion engines did drive paddle vessels, including gunboats, although an upside-down vertical installation would need careful arrangement.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Matching a fleet unit's procurement cost does not mean matching the cost of sustaining its bases, maintenance, and operational infrastructure.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Repulse was the natural retirement candidate because she was older and had not received the extensive rebuilding that made Renown more valuable.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Raising treaty tonnage limits risks a larger version of the same arms race, while France and Italy remain tied to politically difficult parity.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Elizabethan agreements with the Dutch and still earlier arrangements used asset-sharing ideas broad enough to resemble later Lend-Lease.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Vanguard made sense as a practical fast battleship using available 15-inch mounts, but it was not a durable answer to the next generation of capital ships.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
A proven, highly mechanized 15-inch triple turret would offer both stronger armament and a dramatic reduction in turret manpower.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
F3-inspired heavy cruisers with nine forward 8-inch guns would improve British cruiser firepower but create silhouettes uncomfortably close to larger capital ships.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Argus was already an auxiliary after years in reserve, while Hermes and Eagle remained usable but were due to be displaced by new construction.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Germany could occupy Sweden only at major military, economic, and political cost, especially because a long campaign would threaten vital iron supply.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Argus's unusually useful hangar kept her in service for odd jobs, but a long reserve period and auxiliary status limited her combat value.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Putting armor high in a ship can create costly duplicate structure unless the armored deck also serves as the hull's strength deck.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
A two-to-one numerical advantage makes the clear-weather North Sea matchup heavily favor the Alaska-class force despite German armor.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
A joint German-Italian 15-inch triple-turret project could put much more dangerous Scharnhorst-type ships to sea by the late 1930s.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Hermes, Eagle, and Argus would probably be displaced by newer carriers, while the larger converted battlecruisers could remain useful for training or trials.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
The class combines an excellent armor scheme and dual-purpose battery with the practical drawbacks of 14-inch guns and quadruple turrets.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Machinery output alone cannot yield a safe speed estimate because the hull must be designed to withstand the resulting loads and behavior in the water.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Additional displacement would likely go into armor or armament for Revenge-class ships, while Queen Elizabeths could gain only a modest speed improvement.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Copenhagen called for the heavy ships available at that moment because the mission was to batter a defended fleet and anchorage, not merely navigate the Baltic.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Adding Duncan-class ships to the Coronel problem could alter British deployment and senior-officer decisions, not merely create a stronger gunnery duel.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Courageous and Glorious were lost before the Royal Navy could replace every outdated weapon, and an old gun remained marginally more useful than an empty mounting.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
If a tested 16.5-inch gun were available during design, the less-advanced final ships might be altered for three triple turrets.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
The pennant was exceptional chiefly because the Royal Navy presented one to a foreign ship, not because Admiralty pennants were otherwise unknown in British service.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
The proposed aircraft's weight and attachment arrangement are effectively those of the historical Sea Harrier, so the carrier needs no redesign.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
A shared hull is theoretically possible, though no concrete design or compromise-free arrangement is developed.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Four 533 mm torpedoes and 1,500 km of range push a supposed mini-submarine into a much larger coastal-submarine category.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
French gunnery ideas could be sound, but industrial metallurgy and manufacturing capability limited the caliber that could be fielded reliably.
From Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat ·
Eagle's load figure changed as an experimental conversion received repeated alterations to fuel systems, aircraft, stores, and other equipment.
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