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Arabia and Madagascar are prioritized as objectives because taking them would remove Japanese-held positions from the Indian Ocean.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 3 ·
Battleships, battlecruisers, and destroyers are drawn from dispersed stations before an attack on northern Japan becomes practical.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 3 ·
An overloaded construction program forces attention to industrial capacity and research priorities, including anti-submarine warfare.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 3 ·
The French alliance lets Britain concentrate against Japan while treating Germany as a lower immediate priority.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 3 ·
Repairs and losses force destroyers and battlecruisers to be pulled from Malacca, Cuba, and other stations to sustain the Japanese campaign.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 3 ·
A book on battleships and battlecruisers becomes a lesson in checking attractive claims against its sources.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A sequence of carrier attacks and later ship losses could leave Germany without a meaningful surface fleet even if submarines remained active.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Singing was both entertainment for long deployments and a practical aid to coordinated work.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Age-of-sail gun crews could alter elevation but had little practical ability to shift a gun sideways after a neighbouring piece was lost.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A first-rate's upper guns could sweep a smaller opponent's exposed decks or continue firing into the hull as the ships rolled.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Adding Cumberland and a light carrier turns the River Plate pursuit into a far more dangerous problem for Admiral Graf Spee.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Buying the unfinished Iowa-class ships could create two fast British battle groups, but national pride makes the deal doubtful.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
An operational H3a armed with six 18-inch guns could shift the benchmark used in capital-ship negotiations.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A naval diesel is defined by its combustion cycle, not by using automotive road diesel.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The threat posed by a British cruiser depends on whether the German opponent is a battleship, battlecruiser, heavy cruiser, or Deutschland-class raider.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Powder monkeys could move into ordinary sailor duties as their age, build, and ability increased.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The Royal Navy's desire for at least six carriers makes total permitted tonnage as important as the maximum size of each ship.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Earlier victories in Europe could permit a carrier-backed Force Z to join American naval forces before Japan concentrates against it.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A reduced collection of German capital ships, cruisers, and destroyers would most likely remain dispersed around Europe as a fleet in being.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Allowing destroyers to match the largest French contre-torpilleurs would push major navies toward much larger and more heavily armed ships.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Among British choices, HMS Dreadnought offers little spare hull or internal margin for conversion to an earlier pre-dreadnought type.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A lieutenant who verbally attacks the sailing master would face the captain, and on a smaller vessel he might have challenged the captain himself.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
British night operations and fighter direction could complement American daytime strike methods in a joint carrier force.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Changing the Nelson class to a different 16-inch gun would also require new shells, hoists, and much of the turret machinery.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
An earlier Sea Hawk would probably displace the Sea Vampire, while the Sea Fury might remain and the Attacker outcome is uncertain.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A large cruiser fleet is not replaced in one decision; ships leave service and successors enter over many years.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The Deutschland class illustrates why naval treaties included escalation clauses when a rival appeared to stretch the rules.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Temperamental handling and a cramped observer's position made the Seafox uncomfortable and difficult for some crews.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A real aircraft's handling delay does not supply a dependable timetable for a fictional Spearfish entering service under different circumstances.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Replacing Bonaventure with Invincible-class carriers could keep Canadian fixed-wing naval aviation alive and encourage Australia to follow.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Fraser's rank, seniority, and lack of a recent fleet command make a 1940 appointment implausible.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Close-in weapons are a final safeguard after aircraft, outer air defence, and missiles have already failed.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Airship endurance had attractions, but infrastructure demands and the Hindenburg legacy counted heavily against them.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A fleet of Vanguard-derived carriers and battleships implies a strategic reason and budget strong enough to retain large ships after 1945.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The loss of Bonhomme Richard reduced amphibious aviation capacity, but an active American production line made a foreign landing ship an unnecessary answer.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Proposed 4,000-pound and 8,000-pound loads were already near the upper end of what specialised dive- and torpedo-bomber concepts could carry.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A fire-resistant surface could be more valuable than a traditional wooden deck when teak is unavailable.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A rapid post-Jutland completion of the Admiral class would have changed the force the Royal Navy brought into treaty negotiations.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A modern container ship is not designed for concentrated cannon damage and might survive one broadside at some ranges but probably not repeated hits.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A Royal Navy seeking a very large heavy-cruiser force would need to establish that tonnage before the London Naval Treaty restricted future construction.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Four completed Admirals and possible G3s would leave Britain negotiating from a much larger and more modern capital-ship position.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Japan could finance construction toward a defined ten-to-seven ratio, even though an uncontrolled naval arms race would strain its resources.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Government revenue and naval estimates show that interwar shipbuilding limits were political choices as well as questions of raw affordability.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The book's saint-name claims are tested against Royal Navy naming practice, contemporary politics, and later naming choices.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The book's impressive bibliography does not show direct use of the British archival records needed to settle some Royal Navy claims.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A passage about Austro-Hungarian battleship construction demonstrates how factual detail can be wrapped in a national interpretation.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Shell weight and loading machinery can reduce rate of fire enough to undermine the ranging advantage of very large guns.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A dry dock lets water rise around a completed hull instead of sending the ship down a slipway into the water.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·