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Replacing Britain's battleships with Yamato-class ships in 1940 would outmatch enemy arsenals but create an enormous support and integration burden.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
Deck-edge lifts, radar, and dual-purpose artillery are presented as high-value technologies for an earlier British push.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
Postwar American arguments sometimes enlarged Germany's reputation for uniquely advanced manufacturing to magnify victory and justify Cold War learning from German officers and technology.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
A non-declining British Empire is easier to model near its divergence point because every additional decade introduces more interacting political and technological changes.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
Pre-radar listening systems justified investment because aircraft could be heard, but they became an evolutionary dead end once radar offered a better answer.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
If Germany failed in Norway, British fighters freed from the historical campaign might remain committed there rather than automatically reinforce 11 and 12 Groups.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
Even a less severe imperial decline would more plausibly produce a stronger Commonwealth than preserve the British Empire unchanged.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
Adding several cruisers to the Chinese fleet would not overcome the scale by which it remained outnumbered in the First Sino-Japanese War.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
Hull plates may be manufactured with curvature, heated and bent, rolled, pressed, or forced into position as the ship is assembled.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
An invasion of the Japanese home islands would have caused astronomically higher casualties for both sides.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
Older C- and Danae-class cruisers were easier conversion candidates because they had become less useful in secondary light-cruiser roles.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
Britain could respond in the 1920s because its industrial base was still accustomed to major construction, likely with enlarged N3 or G3-type concepts.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
A successor to the Lion class would need names of comparable historical weight because it would replace the Queen Elizabeth class.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
Buried aft turrets created firing limits, while later N3 and F3 arrangements suggest that G3 layouts might have evolved before completion.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
In a surviving imperial setting, Empress of India would suit an aircraft carrier or a prestigious ocean liner.
From Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series ·
The opening argument explains why Pacific, Baltic, and Black Sea torpedo boats increasingly used guns, rockets, and troop support rather than treating torpedoes as their sole purpose.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
A foreign design lineage did not make Japanese torpedo boats straightforward German copies, because local materials, skills, and missions reshaped what could actually be built.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Compare how political control, service priorities, and national prestige affected each navy's ability to draw on its wider industrial and technological base.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Small craft could draw on industries outside the major naval yards, and many adequate boats might offer more combat value than a few exquisite ones.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Trace the fear of torpedoes from World War I and Jutland into renewed American interest in fast motor torpedo boats.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The 1938 PT competition set demanding speed, range, and weapons requirements while excluding an existing sea-sled design that might have shortened development.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The US trials exposed trade-offs between strength, speed, cost, and seakeeping, leaving several civilian-yard designs acceptable for construction.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The 80-foot Elco paired four torpedoes with cannon, machine guns, and depth charges while leaving crews room to increase its forward firepower.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Torpedoes were too scarce to spend on every landing craft or merchant vessel, so small combatants needed guns for routine targets and self-defence.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
American PT boats pressed into island waters with Marines and beach teams, while the Higgins design gave crews unusually generous deck space for improvised roles.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
PT-658's standard fit combined torpedoes with 40 mm, 37 mm, and 20 mm cannon, heavy machine guns, depth charges, rockets, and an illumination mortar.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The Navy accepted several PT designs but ordered hundreds from Elco while delaying other winners and even considering abandonment of the programme.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The Huckins design shows how a patented laminated keel, measured seakeeping, high freeboard, and good accommodation could improve a fast combat boat.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
At Okinawa, landing craft had to become improvised gun platforms because too few purpose-built small combatants were available to stop Japanese suicide boats near the beaches.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Despite wartime production in hundreds or thousands, few landing craft and small combat boats survived to preserve their physical scale and construction.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Japanese suicide boats could move along shoreline routes too shallow for destroyers, making armed shallow-draft craft essential to the beach perimeter.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Japan's Chidori and Ōtori experience shows the danger of trying to make a small torpedo craft perform destroyer-level duties in ocean conditions.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
A comparison of Japanese long-range torpedo doctrine and British close-range night tactics explains how detection, manoeuvre, and volume of fire shape a smaller force's chance of fighting up.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The Type 51 reveals why access to a German Schnellboot drawing could not substitute for the manufacturing experience needed to produce and sustain the design.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The discussion of Shin'yō boats places Japan's small-craft suicide weapons within a broader attempt to impose casualties and deter invasion.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The Soviet Amethyst had begun as an Imperial German A-class torpedo boat, passed through Estonian service, and fought its former navy during World War II.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Soviet designers retained the British coastal motor boat's stern-cradle launch because it worked in rough water despite demanding careful manoeuvring around the released torpedo.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Brake horsepower, shaft horsepower, revolutions, and speed over ground measure different things, so published performance figures cannot always be compared directly.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The compact SH-4 proved stable in heavy weather and spread across three fleets, but poor upkeep pushed many boats into submarine-chaser classification by the late 1930s.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Soviet designations could follow the organisation with greater political influence rather than the technical lineage most visible in the finished boat.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The G-5's aircraft-derived power and duralumin planing hull delivered exceptional speed only through a demanding cycle of lifting and anti-corrosion treatment.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
G-5s did sink a minelayer and minesweepers, but their more characteristic wartime work carried troops and high-value passengers in improvised transport service.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The Soviet D-3 emerged after the D-2 and SM-3 exposed stability, hull-strength, and engine-reliability problems, but crews found ways to make the wooden boat useful.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
The Soviet P-4 combined a Vosper-like hull form with American Packard engines and finally saw action in the Baltic during the closing months of the war.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Senior navies often lacked deep small-craft experience, leaving crews to invent doctrine and practise a more immediate form of leadership under wartime pressure.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Similar hulls did not always prove copying, because navies facing the same mines, submarines, large targets, small raiders, and base-defence problems could converge on comparable boats.
From Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs ·
Lord Nelson and Agamemnon were completed after Dreadnought as the final development of Britain's earlier battleship line.
From HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 5 ·
Lord Nelson's heavy 9.2-inch secondary battery made sense if long-range salvo fire and fire control failed to deliver Dreadnought's promised advantage.
From HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 5 ·