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Purpose-built minelaying submarines remained valuable because they could silently create a dense and accurately placed hazard in channels an enemy believed were clear.
From Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat! ·
In 1870, French naval architects were producing powerful ironclads; the better course is to sustain coal, reserves, and blockade capacity rather than punish the designers.
From Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat! ·
Napoleon III resists a one-dimensional verdict because capable political and military judgment repeatedly alternated with overconfidence and damaging gambles.
From Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat! ·
Canada could support a much larger navy only by making industrial growth, education, infrastructure, and sustained defence spending national priorities.
From Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat! ·
Long-term state capacity depends on the physical and psychological wounds carried home from the world wars as well as the number killed.
From Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat! ·
The class's record-setting dimensions left little margin between its length and safe diving depth, making dive angle a practical safety concern.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The I-400 makes more sense as a long-range submarine strike system intended to appear unexpectedly and hit vulnerable infrastructure.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The I-400 concept is set against Japan's attempt to overcome the industrial and logistical scale available to the United States and Britain.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The I-400 extended the cruiser-submarine idea into a globally deployable independent strike boat, with displacement buying reach and self-sufficiency.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
A book aside identifies the surviving Tribal- and Daring-class museum ships and notes the apparent loss of every Battle-class destroyer.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The class's extraordinary displacement was chiefly the price of global range, fuel capacity, and a self-contained strike capability.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
Increasing the air group from two Seirans to three required an offset superstructure that introduced an unwelcome submarine-stability penalty.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
A covert strike weapon has its greatest value at the opening of a war, before a defender has raised security and organized countermeasures.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
Exceptional endurance opened the possibility of basing the boats near secure fuel stocks at Singapore while sending them all the way to the American coast.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The Seiran's value lay in range and target selection: a small air group could still start damaging fires at hard-to-defend coastal infrastructure.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
Even limited attacks on the mainland could reshape political priorities by making overseas deployments harder to defend at home.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The counterfactual asks how eighteen operational but poorly understood I-400s would have changed the opening of the Pacific War and perceptions of long-range submarine attacks.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The same range and internal volume that supported aircraft could produce long-range minelayers or submarine tankers for a dispersed Pacific campaign.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The double-bubble hull, trim machinery, demagnetization cables, snorkel, periscopes, and Japanese acoustic coating show how the design balanced aviation with submarine survivability.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The I-400 carried a substantial deck gun and aircraft-warning radar, but a submarine's low height sharply limited the radar's practical horizon.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The hangar's external handwheel backed up its hydraulics, illustrating why experienced submarine services preserve simple fallbacks for sophisticated machinery.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
By the time the I-400s entered service, too few existed to sustain the raids that might have forced a major Allied diversion.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The planned Panama Canal operation shows how the I-400 force was meant to turn its range into a strategically disruptive strike.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
Pilots training against a full-scale lock model discovered only late that their bomb-release gear had been replaced for a suicide attack.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
As Okinawa fell, the force shifted from the canal plan toward a strike on Ulithi, but losses and Japan's surrender stopped the operation.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The surrender stories of I-400 and I-401 reflect Japanese efforts to deny their unusual technology to American boarding parties.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
Painting the strike aircraft in American colors was meant to ease their approach, but the deception offended pilots' sense of honor and created internal friction.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
A proposed I-400 operation envisioned biological warfare against the United States, illustrating the class's most disturbing potential use.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
Blocking the canal might have imposed a more durable logistical cost than damaging a handful of late-war carriers.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The final assessment is that the I-400 fitted Japanese doctrine, but wartime timing turned an inventive capability into a poor use of resources.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
A closing viewer question prompts a direct rejection of nuclear propulsion as the defining test of a modern aircraft carrier.
From Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late? ·
The cancellation of USS United States and the decision to build Forrestal sit only a few years apart. Midway-class limits explain why the Navy wanted one carrier able to handle every major aviation role.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
The armoured flight deck carried longitudinal strength at the highest full-length level, reducing the reinforcement needed above it and making the large hull practical.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
A retractable island inherited from USS United States thinking proved mechanically awkward and too small for flag staffs and ship-control functions.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Forrestal combined strike and reconnaissance aircraft such as the RA-5C Vigilante. The limits of each design reveal the cost of competing requirements.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Modern escorts inherit cruiser presence missions in this functional classification, while frigates and destroyers specialize in anti-submarine and anti-air warfare.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Changing a flat-top design during construction left the first Forrestals with a forward port elevator crossed by both waist catapults.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Forrestal made wartime carriers look visibly old-fashioned and began an iterative lineage through Kitty Hawk, Enterprise, Nimitz, and Ford.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Aircraft staged for the waist catapults could block landings, while parking, refuelling, and rearming competed for scarce deck space.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Several American yards could still build or sustain large carriers, giving the postwar Navy industrial depth and some competition among suppliers.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Forrestal's displacement and dimensions exceeded treaty-era limits and closely approached the scale planned for USS United States.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
The published 33-to-34-knot figure is treated as a safe peacetime rating, with only a small and costly machinery margin available in an emergency.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Air-group totals changed over time, and small differences among ships, elevator positions, and catapult paths affected operating capacity.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Forrestal moved from Suez Crisis standby into Sixth Fleet service, where carrier demonstrations introduced foreign leaders to American naval air power.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Saratoga hosted President Nixon and led a task group after an airline hijacking and the Libyan coup. Its name linked Cold War service to a wartime carrier lost in nuclear testing.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Ranger's Vietnam and Gulf of Tonkin service shows why the Forrestals remained first-line carriers as newer designs entered service.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Independence completed Operation Southern Watch, returned to Yokosuka for relief by Kitty Hawk, and retired just short of forty years in service.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Refits kept the ships useful, while revised elevator positions on USS John F. Kennedy show how Forrestal operations informed later jet-carrier layouts.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·