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The next Japanese battlecruisers would probably be improved Kongos, followed by further iterations rather than a hard stop at eight ships.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
German attacks on Britain's trade network also damaged Japan because much Japanese commerce depended on British merchant shipping.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
The US Navy might build battlecruisers, but foreign 28-knot battleships could push it directly toward a single fast-battleship line.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Reusing guns and turrets remains possible if battlecruisers are built, while a single fast-battleship type offers another route to lower costs.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Italian-style reconstruction of the US standard battleships may cost almost as much as new ships while delivering a less capable result.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Improved Agincourt-type exports are unlikely in the first response to Chile, but a later procurement round remains possible and British yards would welcome the orders.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
One semi-dreadnought with triple turrets would probably change little, but widespread earlier adoption could lead to a longer, narrower Dreadnought with centerline guns.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Very large guns encounter a practical ceiling when their rate of fire becomes too slow for effective naval gunnery.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Peacetime design evolves in measured generations, while any surviving battlecruiser must reach roughly 35-36 knots to preserve a useful margin over 28-knot battleships.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Underwater-detection research beginning around 1914 makes an operational or nearly operational system by 1920 plausible in the delayed-war scenario.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Later events can enlarge a procurement scandal's place in historical accounts compared with its contemporary importance.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
German designers examined Austro-Hungarian triple-turret practice, so a delayed war leaves adoption possible even though it was historically rejected.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Royal Navy pink slips provide near-daily records of which ships were in service, what they were doing, and where they were deployed.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Legal requirements make privateering cumbersome and expensive.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Britain remains strongest through scale, while Austria-Hungary offers the best balanced fleet for its size and budget.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
A comparison with a proposed 170-gun four-decker emphasizes prestige while distinguishing the prospects of actual construction.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Once fast battleships can scout and maneuver for themselves, battlecruisers shift toward imperial reinforcement, trade protection, and commerce raiding.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Without Fisher's wartime return, the Renown and Admiral classes probably vanish, fast battleships arrive earlier, and purpose-built carriers replace turret-launched aircraft experiments.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Britain reports defence spending through ordinary departmental scrutiny and NATO commitments, while intelligence appropriations remain less transparent.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Most dreadnoughts remain available, while older pre-dreadnoughts move into reserve or leave service before the 12-inch dreadnoughts do.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Each additional gun creates more interactions inside a shared turret, including disruption of neighboring guns when it fires.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Without wartime requisition, Eagle remains a Chilean battleship; Britain would probably build Hermes-style carriers sized for torpedo aircraft.
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Greek, Ottoman, and Russian capital-ship programs could bankrupt and destabilize the Ottoman Empire, providing a new route to general war around 1920.
From WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History) ·
Japan feeds lessons from Tsingtao, Mediterranean anti-submarine patrols, and force-projection duties directly into its wartime destroyer program.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
The Kaba design became the basis for France's Arabe-class order. Japan supplied an Allied navy with urgently needed destroyers during World War I.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
Kaba's three-shaft reciprocating machinery, 30-knot speed and mixed gun battery show what Japan's smaller wartime destroyers could deliver.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
Kaba-class destroyers operated in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean, with eight joining Rear Admiral Kozo Sato's force at Malta.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
Japan's much larger first-class Isokaze design supplied the speed and range needed to screen the projected Eight-Eight battle fleet.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
Isokaze's larger battery needed only about thirty extra crew, while funding and yard capacity constrained Japan's destroyer orders.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
The smaller Momo class retained six torpedo tubes and much of the larger design's fighting value while fitting Japan's available yards and turbine supply.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
Mediterranean operations made Japanese destroyer crews highly capable submarine hunters, but the interwar navy did not build fully on that wartime knowledge.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
Assigning two British Acorn-class, or H-class, destroyers to Japanese crews gave Japan useful hulls while freeing Royal Navy personnel for newer ships in the North Atlantic.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
The Kawakaze class paired new 533 mm torpedoes with improved 120 mm guns and pushed Japanese destroyers toward heavier torpedo batteries.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
Japan completed six Enoki-class destroyers in six months by adapting the Momo design, reinforcing the hull, and fitting readily available British machinery and guns.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
Operating British ships over time let Japanese crews turn observation into practical design knowledge alongside the lessons from new domestic classes.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
Sustaining a destroyer force in the Mediterranean moved Japan beyond regional power projection and demonstrated an expeditionary naval capability.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
Japan could have offered capital ships for European service, but concerns about Russia and the United States limited how much force it could spare.
From Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI ·
The panel questions how an information-led fleet can work without matching investment in reconnaissance satellites, reliable communications, electrical generation, and quiet cooling.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The G3 gun discussion connects a proposed 16.5-inch step beyond the 15-inch gun to treaty delays, later 16-inch weapons, and an estimated 1923 completion.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
A delayed-treaty scenario links a 24-ship battle fleet to yard competition, steady workloads, and the cost of interrupting capital-ship construction.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The proposed battle-fleet size is connected to separate home, Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean commitments.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Eagle, Hermes, Argus, and Furious offer different limits on what an early-1930s carrier rebuild could achieve.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
A procurement aside compares the modest funding assigned to large uncrewed vessels with the Type 31 program's movement beyond its original public unit-price claim.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The Spanish destroyer discussion examines a roughly 3,000-ton escort, a reduced order, long construction delays, and machinery bought from two French suppliers.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Quantum computing and communications are suggested as possible meanings, but the panel cannot identify a clearly defined capability behind the plan's repeated use of the term.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Credibility depends on what a witness could observe: a general's overview and a soldier's account of one street answer different historical questions.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Accounts of the voyage home from the Falklands show comrades helping one another remember actions obscured by stress and guilt.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
G3 speed predictions tested the constructors' hull calculations and supplied an opportunity for professional rivalry.
From Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·