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Forrestal's design lineage fed the modern carrier's role as a visible American signal, backed by a large air wing and layered task-group defence.
From Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers... ·
Strategic speed includes fuel stops and sustainment as well as knots, which made nuclear propulsion an alternative to a much larger conventional carrier force.
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Strike, air defence, anti-submarine warfare, and delivery aircraft worked within a network of support ships. Bringing two carrier groups together greatly increased the force an opponent had to defeat.
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Carrier mobility shortens friendly strike routes and forces an opponent to find, track, and attack an airbase whose position keeps changing.
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Forrestal's 1963 C-130 deck trials tested how engines, personnel, food, and urgent cargo could reach a carrier at sea.
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A folding-tail, folding-wing Hercules would have required larger elevators and hangars, with possible consequences for other aircraft types and carrier logistics.
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A book recommendation traces naval air-defence missile development from the 1930s through the Falklands era.
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A preservation-focused thought experiment weighs historical and emotional value among capital ships from the two world-war eras.
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France, Turkey and Japan are weighed as potential postwar users of the large Alaska-class cruisers.
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A Cold War aircraft capture would likely be evaluated in Britain before intelligence was shared with allies.
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Coaxial rotors give Kamov helicopters stability but complicated some dipping-sonar operations.
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The Leopard and Salisbury classes are described as capable escorts for demanding convoy routes rather than simple wartime convoy replacements.
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A suggested source on the French Navy's postwar recovery is useful, though the exact published English title remains uncertain.
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Stabilized rockets and VT proximity fuzes would turn a proposed improvement to the naval Unrotated Projectile into something close to Britain's land-based Z Battery.
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Earlier, more powerful British battlecruisers could alter Jutland and reshape the postwar fast-battleship debate.
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A replica-warship thought experiment reveals the appeal of restoring distinctive destroyer, ironclad and battleship designs.
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Replacing Town-class 6-inch batteries with 5.25-inch guns would weaken their intended cruiser-combat role.
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Capital-ship survivability normally required the intact armored citadel to retain enough buoyancy to keep the hull afloat.
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A 25,000-ton British nuclear cruiser could be powerful, but oversized guns would compete with more useful missile capacity.
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In clear daylight, the much later USS Alaska would hold overwhelming advantages over HMS Dreadnought.
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A successor to the Blackburn Skua could improve its flaps and dive-braking features, but watertight aircraft compartments are judged impractical.
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Considering both Merlin and Hercules engines gave the Avro York options when wartime availability and competing production demands changed.
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A gifted Italian armored cruiser would most plausibly serve as a powerful one-off in the Royal Navy's Far East forces.
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The five-inch class remains the practical balance of reliable high rate of fire and useful naval striking power.
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A Republic of China Navy Alaska would be too valuable as a sea-going deterrent to dismantle for coastal guns.
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Combining an early jet flying wing, a rocket engine and carrier operations would multiply unacceptable risks.
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The crucial issue was not merely ordering engines but securing an independent industrial supply chain for naval aircraft.
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San Giorgio-class cruisers could defeat most British armored cruisers one-on-one, but British numbers still mattered.
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Nuclear propulsion offers little to an amphibious assault ship that must operate close to shore and visit many ports.
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A troublesome Captain Romani-class ship would face a light cruiser or destroyer group rather than a fair one-for-one duel.
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A ship's apparently quiet wartime record must be judged against the conflicts it had a chance to fight.
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Scalable combustible cartridges could lighten ammunition handling and make naval autoloading more practical.
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A fifteen-gun Edinburgh is compared with the Brooklyn class and is not expected to inherit the Nelson class's restricted firing arcs.
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Using 15-inch/50 guns could simplify Nelson's turret design and encourage a more uniform British heavy-gun fleet.
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Giving Germany treaty parity with France and Italy after the Rhineland crisis would be unacceptable to France and destabilize Europe.
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At-sea VLS reloading remains difficult because missiles are fragile and current ships were not designed around safe replenishment paths.
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A side discussion connects the Ticonderoga class's uncomfortable combat-information-center motion with its destroyer-leader origins and cruiser designation.
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A 4,000-ton Tribal with eight 5.25-inch guns would give Britain an extraordinarily destructive destroyer force.
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Pre-dreadnought is treated as a later label, while the République and Liberté classes mark France's return to a modern battle line.
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Empty VLS containers are relatively straightforward to remove, but loaded missiles require calm, controlled handling.
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Removing an after turret from a fifteen-gun Town-class cruiser could create missile space while retaining nine forward 6-inch guns.
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Bismarck's long protected area reflected a distributed armor scheme rather than the compact all-or-nothing approach used by many contemporaries.
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Cross-national speed comparisons require converting differing definitions, while official peacetime figures still understate what machinery might deliver in an emergency.
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Crown Colony cruisers would remain attractive even beside more heavily armed Towns because they offered a faster war-build solution.
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An angled deck is driven by landing-speed and recovery needs, not by a particular fighter layout or propulsion type.
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Moving Britain west would widen the North Sea and complicate a Channel barrier while modestly improving strategic depth against air attack.
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An independent air force exists to conduct strategic air warfare while armies and navies retain aviation tailored to their own operations.
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Royal Navy interest in remote-controlled defensive turrets is described as real but conventional for late-war bomber design rather than a unique doctrinal breakthrough.
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