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Without submarines, torpedoes lose an important hidden launch platform and navies must develop another way to deliver a decisive underwater weapon.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
British armoured carriers and American larger air groups reflect different operating environments and treaty compromises rather than a simple right answer.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
Keeping Glorious with a heavy cruiser and larger destroyer screen, while flying reconnaissance, could have provided warning and options against Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
Capturing Bismarck would expose German systems, codes, personnel knowledge, and the drawbacks of high-pressure steam machinery.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
Yamato was conceived to overpower a smaller number of American battleships, not absorb coordinated radar-directed fire from four or five modernized older ships.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
The Royal Navy never fought a classic carrier battle, but convoy operations demonstrated the defensive value and some offensive use of its carrier doctrine.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
British machinery choices sacrificed some pressure and performance to remain maintainable during global deployments, unlike less reliable German high-pressure plants.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
Earlier homing torpedoes and teardrop hulls would not automatically transform the submarine war because many wartime boats still depended on surface travel and surface stability.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
A tender supplies accommodation and broad flotilla support, while a repair ship concentrates on repairs.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
Strasbourg's forward battery, redundancy, and North Atlantic seakeeping give her the advantage over Scharnhorst.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
A 1942 start replaces early Fleet Air Arm types with the Barracuda, Seafire, and a more capable long-range reconnaissance or fighter design.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
Wilhelm Marschall's command style suggests he would exploit victory at Denmark Strait and then withdraw rather than continue the raiding mission.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
British carrier-aircraft homing equipment emerged from Admiralty research working with the Farnborough air establishment in the early to mid-1930s.
From Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat ·
The opening counterfactual asks how a longer-lived Stalin could have carried shipbuilding, aviation, and naval spending into the early Cold War.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
A longer-lived Stalin would deny Mao Zedong one of his later arguments against Soviet leaders: that they lacked first-generation revolutionary authority.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
The unfinished Stalingrad class is treated as the final gun-armed battlecruiser put under construction, distinct from the later Kirov missile cruisers.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
Stalingrad is presented as a 12-inch-gun battlecruiser meant to accompany carriers and cruisers when carrier aircraft could not operate.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
The hulls already under construction show how production momentum could outlast the political decision that began a programme.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
A 35.5-knot, armoured ship with 12-inch guns would sit awkwardly between cruisers and surviving Western capital ships.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
The counterfactual shifts from the Soviet design to the costly choices facing British and American carrier groups.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
The design combined nine 12-inch guns with dense secondary and anti-aircraft batteries, radar, infrared detection, sonar, and jammers.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
The class makes most sense as one layer in a force that scouts with aircraft and concentrates its surface ships when weather closes in.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
Stalingrad's danger depended on timing: most Western fast capital ships had sunk or been scrapped, while Vanguard was slower.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
Completed battlecruisers and carriers could lock the Soviet Union into a surface-fleet path rather than a primarily submarine-focused one.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
A Soviet carrier group with a fast, armoured Stalingrad could turn a naval quarantine into a much more dangerous confrontation.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
Completed Soviet battlecruisers could prompt heavier Western ship designs and alter American calculations toward a pro-Soviet Egypt during the Suez Crisis.
From Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 7 ·
The term concentration camp has changed meaning over time; British camp deaths are linked here chiefly to disastrous Army logistics.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Lütjens's patriotism and institutional loyalty helped keep him obedient to a regime whose racial policy he opposed in writing.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
An officer can disagree with political leaders yet remain useful to them because his sense of duty makes his actions predictable.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
A second successful Atlantic sortie would probably have made Lütjens the leading candidate to replace Raeder, ahead of Dönitz.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Voluntary surrender appears unlikely, though an unconscious or badly injured Lütjens could have been captured.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Extensive torpedo-boat service prepared Lütjens for light forces, while his only large-ship command was a single year aboard Karlsruhe.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Committed Nazis served in the navy, but memories of naval rebellion and the service's lower priority complicated its relationship with Hitler.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Lütjens's torpedo-boat postings offered little overseas travel, unlike his world cruises before the First World War.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Prewar overseas service and specialist schooling gave Lütjens breadth, while Versailles-era fleet limits left him with repeated torpedo commands and long staff appointments.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
A40's small crew, light armament, and limited dimensions establish the scale of Lütjens's wartime command experience.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
A torpedo boat offered few fellow officers for tactical discussion, reinforcing habits poorly suited to a larger command.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Shore appointments gave Lütjens access to superiors and peers without reproducing the communication demands of independent command at sea.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
The treaty-limited navy needed to preserve a balanced officer cadre but possessed too few ships and billets to give every promising officer broad command experience.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Offset aft mountings gave Karlsruhe six guns firing astern, while the layout and light hull protection receive a critical assessment.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Karlsruhe's world cruise gave Lütjens a year of substantial shipboard command and placed future Bismarck survivor Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg among his cadets.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Informal social gatherings, small conversations, and written reports give leaders different ways to understand their teams.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Karlsruhe cruised on diesel engines and used oil-fired boilers and geared steam turbines for higher speed.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Reading files and consulting selected advisers suited Lütjens's small-craft commands, but a fleet required broader communication among subordinate leaders.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
As a personnel officer, Lütjens delayed enforcement of racial policy and joined a written protest to Raeder after Kristallnacht.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Expansion resumed around 1936, but preserved design knowledge could not immediately replace gutted shipyards, armament works, and industrial capacity.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Plan Z's optimistic 1945 target and more realistic 1950 horizon depended on rebuilding yards, armament plants, and supporting industry.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·
Earlier construction preserved some shipbuilding activity, but its small scale could not maintain the industry needed for a large fleet.
From Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership? ·