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Policing and counterinsurgency remain plausible roles, while mobile planetary-defence weapons face competition from space-based forces.
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Negotiated payments and Ottoman diplomacy could protect trade more cheaply than repeated punitive expeditions against separate corsair centres.
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A speculative explanation links Greek fire production to Cornish materials and suggests a related Ottoman motive for trade with England.
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The World Trade Center attacks are the only concrete candidate offered for an otherwise unresolved selection of defining twenty-first-century images.
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The examples are Spanish cannon ill suited to sustained fighting at sea and South Dakota's electrical failure at Guadalcanal.
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The main changes would follow newer technology and experience, because the strategic emphasis on attrition followed by decisive battle remained similar.
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Historical-fiction portrayals of officers abusing Irish sailors are challenged through crew composition and the practical demands of command.
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Bonnie, also called Banshee, is the character to watch: her knitting and grandmotherly appearance accompany an intimidating personality.
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A fictional redesign illustrates how crew endurance and time in dock can outweigh the nominal number of ships purchased.
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About sixteen is proposed as a useful reference point, depending on deterrent requirements, missile payloads and how many boats remain at sea.
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It is judged a solid, comparatively balanced vehicle, especially in A3 form, though some participants prefer British alternatives.
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The criticism centres on late orders, loss of specialist capacity and a construction schedule that no longer matches the Type 23 fleet's remaining life.
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Delays to the future air-defence programme raise the question of how Type 45s can remain available until replacements arrive.
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A joint design would need more size, stronger command facilities and better self-defence, with capacity matched to the intended amphibious or raiding role.
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A hypothetical loss of a building associated with Hitler exposes a conflict between preserving historical objects and personal attachment; the alleged fire itself is unverified.
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Turboprops are attractive for endurance and efficiency, while commonality with an increasingly jet-based air group pushes the other way.
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Replacing the radar platform is easier than replacing the forward command-and-control role, although those functions could be split across aircraft.
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The E-2D's generators illustrate why a powerful airborne radar cannot simply be transferred to a small drone.
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Salt caverns, suitable mines, bunkers and concrete-lined underground spaces are cited, with the warning that storage capacity is useful only when stocked.
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The choices range from a demonstrable MAC gun to an immense Fifth Imperium planetoid, with controllability, limitations and crewing shaping the debate.
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The suggested air group combines F-35Cs and Rafales, since developing a new British carrier fighter would add cost and delay.
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The option is considered possible, but its feasibility depends on whether programme partners would share the naval requirement and cost.
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A successful ski-jump demonstration leaves open whether the aircraft configuration is ready for fleet service; claims about the extent of modifications remain unsubstantiated in this exchange.
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A breakdown in access to American aircraft is used to examine Britain's limited near-term CATOBAR alternatives.
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The suggestions include the X-wing, B-wing and Star Trek's Sovereign class, with the latter praised for its lines and armament.
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The Queen Elizabeth class is credited with theoretical electrical capacity for EMALS, without a worked-through conversion proposal.
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Greater machinery power density makes high speed and strong protection compatible, but the added cost and complexity still need a useful operational role.
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A role-play design demanding 30 to 32 knots and heavy protection is challenged on hull proportions and the machinery available in 1918.
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Marine boilers must tolerate ship motion, changing demand and confined machinery spaces that differ from a power station.
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The limiting factor for advanced locomotive boilers is presented as the ability to maintain them across the railway.
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Vertical launch could improve exports and avoid launcher-traverse failures in the Falklands, with a possible reduction in ship losses.
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Comparisons can be useful within stated assumptions; The Lost Fleet is offered as a relatively constrained example with explicit fictional exceptions.
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The zat gun's stun, kill and disintegration sequence is used to question claims of consistent Stargate physics.
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The preferences include F3, a Vulcan-type workshop ship, Design Z Minotaur, K2 and a modern Type 83, with maintenance waived by the premise.
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Orders around 1932 or 1933 are suggested, allowing roughly four or five years for manufacture, shipment and installation.
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The choices include tunnelling through the Earth and Germany's V-3 gun, followed by examples of trying to control unsuitable explosive energy sources.
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An Orion drive is defended as potentially useful in space, while its operating hazards and use near Earth remain disputed.
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It is judged suitable if acquired in sufficient numbers and fitted flexibly for mine warfare, patrol and survey work.
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Possibly, because the early quadruple mounts had problems that later ships and accumulated experience reduced.
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The larger force is judged a significant problem for the Allies, with possible Guadalcanal use depending on the scenario.
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The imagined arrangement gives military administration to the two professional commanders and public advocacy to Churchill, with substantial friction expected.
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The Boxer discussion compares vehicle prices with the factories, training and support needed to introduce a second fleet.
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Fighters could threaten targets while a freighter carried a boarding force, but using contemporary military fighters could compromise the pirate disguise.
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Experience of storm outages in Cornwall leads into the cost tradeoff between overhead and underground power distribution.
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Large ventilated hangars, gantries and controlled moorings would be needed to position the airships for maintenance.
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More frigates are welcomed, but the proposal is judged incomplete without a credible funding and construction plan.
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The need for government approval is disputed; no formal authorisation process is identified for the fictional Manjuu force.
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The preference is an enlarged Type 45 with separate launcher capacity for strike weapons and a large layered air-defence magazine.
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