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The sinking of HMS Glorious was one of the Second World War's rare cases in which battleships destroyed an aircraft carrier by gunfire.
From Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4 ·
Britain rerouted convoys and assembled a fast battleship, cruisers, and destroyers before closing to decisive range against a radar-blinded Scharnhorst.
From Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4 ·
Scharnhorst's evolutionary path is contrasted with modern programs that tried to integrate many unfamiliar technologies inside one hull.
From Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4 ·
Scharnhorst built on understood Deutschland guns, turrets, and communications, limiting major technical risk mostly to propulsion before the Bismarck class shifted novelty to armament.
From Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4 ·
The closing design exercise asks how Germany might have evolved Scharnhorst without political pressure and competing bureaucratic demands.
From Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4 ·
Britain might remain neutral, mediate, or join a Japanese-American war if the Anglo-Japanese Alliance still existed.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
American plans to attack imperial trade and invade Canada complicate the idea that Canada could simply sit out a Pacific war.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
The British Empire's transformation into the Commonwealth was a different political process from the straightforward dissolution implied by the word breakup.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
Common language and extensive exchange connect Anglosphere societies, but political issues do not carry identical meanings across their national borders.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
Several drawings identify Tosa's prominent rear feature as structural support rather than a hidden second funnel and show how silhouettes conceal major internal differences.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
Without large treaty-conversion carriers, early navies would probably have learned through smaller cruiser-sized experiments before building mature fleet carriers.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
Construction timing means the G3 and N3 decisions would precede completion of the Amagi class, leaving Britain's next generation to absorb the lesson.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
Order, laying-down, and projected completion dates show why completed Amagis would arrive too late to redirect Britain's already committed G3 and N3 generation.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
The Royal Navy would study foreign construction but present its next design as an answer to British requirements, new technology, and the imperial support network.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
Amagi, lost after earthquake damage, would likely have been a better carrier conversion than Akagi.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
The existence of the planned ship is documented, but insufficient detail survives to settle how its modified Queen Elizabeth-class design would have differed.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
If treaty talks failed, the US Navy would first finish its existing battlecruisers and battleships before investing heavily in a successor design.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
A modern analogy casts ballistic-missile submarines as capital ships and attack submarines as cruiser-like successors to older submarine missions.
From The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response ·
Indicated horsepower describes output within the engine, while brake horsepower measures the power delivered to its shaft.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Capital ships and flagships needed interiors suited to peacetime duties as well as combat.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
A hypothetical modern trireme refit would give the vessel an intelligence role.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Akagi is the tentative choice for a long carrier career in a world without the Second World War.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
The two optical rangefinder systems trade precise long-range measurement against faster target acquisition.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
A detailed design exercise asks how Britain's enormous 18-inch-gun L3 and K3 concepts might be reduced into a treaty-era Nelson-type ship.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
The L3 battleship and K3 battlecruiser studies paired similar weapons with a large increase in machinery power for five extra knots.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Replacing separate 6-inch and 4.7-inch batteries with twin 5.5-inch mounts creates a plausible dual-purpose alternative.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Comparing the ships one-for-one misses the British independent-operation role and the American scouting role ahead of a battle fleet.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
A counterfactual German carrier air group could draw on Sabre-powered Barracuda, Seafire, or Firebrand-type aircraft.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
In this December 2023 assessment, interest in radical modular construction has yet to produce a convincing delivered example.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Keeping Courageous-class ships as balanced 9.2-inch cruisers would alter treaty categories, cruiser construction, and Britain's carrier-conversion choices.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
References to Cammell Laird as a strike-carrier expert suggest design work before Ark Royal, with an Admiral-class hull as the proposed connection.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Lion-class conversions would trade shorter, slower hulls for more beam and draught, with new small-tube boilers offering a way to recover speed.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
A battlestar could face different recovery concerns on its two flight pods, though an imagined guidance system could help.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
An earlier Dante Alighieri would probably prompt Austria-Hungary to respond quickly, although the resulting Austrian design remains uncertain.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Lion began with better underwater protection and more internal room for further protective measures than the Courageous class.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Two twin 6-inch mounts did not make the Tiger class a satisfactory endpoint for treaty-cruiser development.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
The proposed US Navy fire-control table would make the ships in the scenario more accurate much sooner.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Removing Graf Zeppelin's surface battery frees weight and space for additional anti-aircraft weapons or other carrier systems.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Better protection gives a hypothetical Lion carrier only a modest improvement over Courageous in an encounter with U-29.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Nimrod MRA4's inconsistent inherited airframes are linked to earlier government decisions.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Speculation about Wilhelm Canaris is placed in the context of German resistance and Allied proposals to weaken or partition Germany after the war.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
The floating concrete components of the Mulberry harbours make a stronger engineering example than a concrete canoe.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Flagship interiors were naval-constructor work, with corridors and ceremonial spaces shaped to support command and imperial display.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Concept sketches establish broad strokes, detailed designs resolve systems, and construction still introduces practical changes.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Norman Friedman's British destroyer history is recommended for tracing classes delayed by wartime equipment shortages.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Plastic warships and experiments with animal-hide coracles illustrate the range of materials used for vessels, although the coracles' effectiveness is left uncertain.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
The six-gun H3A gains only half a knot over G3, making G3's three additional guns a compelling exchange.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·
Some floating pykrete test structure is recalled, but whether it was a ship or only a raft remains uncertain.
From Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out ·