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The altered basing and repair system could produce an early-1942 carrier clash involving British, American, and Japanese forces in the Coral Sea.
From Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore? ·
Australia's later shipbuilding difficulties are linked to failing to sustain the industrial base and skilled workforce needed for complex naval construction.
From Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore? ·
Postwar Royal Navy and Australian recruitment depends on how the altered war unfolds, though a decade of joint work would influence cooperation in every theater.
From Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore? ·
A 24,500-ton carrier ceiling hurts American and Japanese large-strike-carrier plans more than Britain's preference for six smaller fleet carriers.
From Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore? ·
A Renown-class ship carrying heavier armor and triple 15-inch turrets would need somewhat more boiler power, while the larger hull's structural stresses become the deeper design problem.
From Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore? ·
Two or even four triple 9.2-inch turrets could make the Courageous-class hulls effective large cruisers and influence later interwar cruiser design.
From Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore? ·
Congreve rockets offered ships an arcing, intimidating weapon whose weight was far lower than an equivalent mortar installation.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Unguided rockets repeatedly returned when guns lacked reach, but guidance, accuracy, cost, and ammunition capacity kept guns and missiles in the mix.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
The Royal Navy's unrotated projectile answered a forecast of high-altitude mass bombing with parachute mines intended to disrupt attacking formations.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Wind blew Hood's parachute wires back into the ship, while misfires, injuries, and poor stability helped end fleet use of the launcher.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
The Royal Navy retained interest in rockets for surface attack, assisted takeoff, small craft, and aircraft attacks on surfaced U-boats.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Coldstream Guards crews mounted aircraft rockets on Sherman tanks and used the improvised Tulip system during the successful attack on a bridge west of Lingen.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Katyusha batteries could deliver the equivalent of a large artillery salvo and leave before enemy counter-battery fire arrived.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
German guided weapons tried to preserve anti-ship striking power as fighters and overlapping gun defenses forced aircraft to release from farther away.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Hypersonic speed compresses an opponent's reaction time, but ballistic predictability and wide turning radii can make a slower sea-skimming weapon more maneuverable and accurate.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Demonstrating a few scramjets or electromagnetic guns is different from manufacturing reliable weapons at fleet scale without destructive wear.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Long, interrupted development histories and optimistic service dates make advertised missile performance a poor substitute for demonstrated capability.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Boost, midcourse, and re-entry phases offer different defensive opportunities, while speed, numbers, decoys, and multiple vehicles complicate interception.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Cruise missiles extend aircraft and ship reach, while submarines can launch from inside defensive layers and surface ships can fire before moving away.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Anti-ship missile effectiveness depends on attack geometry, with a pop-up strike able to drive fire and disruption down through several decks.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
By the time navies might reconsider heavily armoured ships, improving an anti-ship missile would be easier than adding enough armour to defeat it.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Missile resistance favors many isolated spaces, but global endurance and large mission areas impose competing demands on warship layouts.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Rocket-delivered torpedoes preserve a stand-off attack when helicopters are unavailable or have exhausted their weapons.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Portable anti-tank missiles can arm riverine craft against small targets, though portability constrains their size and countermeasures keep evolving.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
An interceptor can strike directly or place fragments in a target's path, but either method requires increasingly precise timing as closing speed rises.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Second World War defenses disrupted raids layer by layer, while modern missiles aim to destroy aircraft or weapons before they reach launch range.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Aircraft production can accelerate, but losses of experienced pilots, instructors, officers, and noncommissioned specialists weaken future force generation.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Modern fighter effectiveness depends heavily on missile reach, while Falklands losses hurt Argentina more because it committed a larger share of its experienced combat aviation.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Aircraft and ships can attack satellites, but orbital debris could damage navigation, weather, communications, and other systems far beyond the battlefield.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Ballistic launches risk strategic misinterpretation, while a missile aimed directly at a defended carrier group offers its interceptors comparatively simple geometry.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
Railgun barrel life and scramjet materials, not the age of the underlying ideas, determine whether hypersonic concepts can be mass-produced affordably.
From Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies ·
A game update erases the previous save, prompting a new 1890 Austro-Hungarian campaign built around speed, armor, and firepower.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
Early hulls, machinery, stability, and weight limits force a basic battleship design when cruisers prove even less practical.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
Transport growth, crew availability, and machinery research compete for an Austro-Hungarian budget that cannot support every priority at once.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
Nearby Ottoman territory offers access beyond the Adriatic, but minor-power diplomacy blocks the campaign's preferred target and redirects tension toward Russia.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
Lighter armour and better machinery promise stronger future ships, while confined Adriatic waters reduce the immediate value of battlecruiser speed.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
A modest refit and six new ships aim to create two standardized four-battleship divisions within a fragile budget.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
Foreign battleship orders provide cash while Austro-Hungarian yards struggle to fund their own fleet expansion.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
Battleship groups and future submarines are assigned to turn the narrow Adriatic approaches into a defended denial zone.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
Forty-eight cheap torpedo boats replace the unavailable submarines, trading stability, protection, and research funding for numbers and local basing.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
Manual aiming, unstable formations, and uncertain torpedo behavior make an 1890 fleet action as much a command problem as a gunnery contest.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
The Austro-Hungarian force tries to outlast a low-fuel Russian squadron, sinks its battleship through accumulated damage, yet still loses the scenario.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
Battle experience leads to steadier gun platforms and stronger anti-torpedo-boat batteries, then the refit becomes the next production design.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
War losses and cancelled foreign orders force a selective repair and scrapping program rather than automatic absorption of every returned ship.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
A constrained refit retains three torpedo launchers, redistributes the gun battery, and gains roughly three knots without enlarging the boat.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
A viewer's Douglas Haig question opens a discussion of reputation, specialist competence, and why politicians overgeneralize military authority.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
A discussion of professional limits develops into an argument that clear mobilization orders could have reduced Norway's vulnerability in 1940.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·
Cyber-warfare questions illustrate why broad academic authority should not be mistaken for coding, hacking, or weapons-engineering expertise.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update ·