Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...

Combine a tachyon grid and relay satellites with mines and active screening ships, giving the base time to reactivate other vessels and recall crews.

Earth Spacedock's lack of weapons prompts competing arguments about civilian control and the distribution of military force.

Spare reactor production does not remove the shipyard bottleneck in building complete AUKUS submarines.

Guarding the core would be expected, while finding it is considered important without warranting a diversion of every resource.

Make vulnerable sails, reserve propulsion arrangements, three-dimensional broadsides and maintenance demands shape the crew's experience.

Praetors could perform judicial duties, substitute for consuls and receive provincial assignments.

A common carrier keeps jumping ships together, economizes on navigation equipment and lets whoever controls scarce navigators regulate fleet movements.

The claimed 2028 submarine-order timetable allows for design work and purchases before the main contract.

The assumed schedule leaves two carriers available in 1982 and raises the possibility of deterring invasion. Otherwise Argentina faces a larger conventional air wing with early warning; replacement timing depends on service lives of roughly 30 to 40 years.

A Super Hornet with British engines and avionics is considered the likelier choice. A naval Typhoon would require structural changes and partners willing to share their cost.

Build productive local industry and layered defences that make conquest expensive and slow, while tailoring ships to likely enemies. The plan's territorial and hyperspace assumptions are disputed.

Jedi clones are said to become mentally unstable unusually quickly.

A plan to obstruct hyperspace routes runs into the mass and engineering requirements of moving bodies large enough to affect them.

Stargate is one choice for consistent space combat, with Star Trek and Warhammer 40,000 offered as alternatives under their own fictional rules.

One proposal combines Infinity and Punic-class supercarriers with heavy cruisers, destroyers and extra frigates; the competing preference for Punics raises objections to combining them with Infinity.

Trafalgar's resistance at Reach is valued for the time it bought Pillar of Autumn and Master Chief to escape.

Preferences include Warlords for weapons and sensing, a Reaver from Legio Crucius for balance, and Legio Tempestus as another legion choice. Reaver vulnerability and inconsistent sensor descriptions complicate the choice.

The machinery's mass and operating characteristics prevent a meaningful speed figure, even with magically durable shafts and wheels.

The labels depend on the source and naval era. Defiant is heavily armed and sometimes leads other ships, but that is rejected as enough to make it a destroyer leader.

Canadian participation is considered plausible in that alternate history, given the countries' existing alliance relationships.

Messages aimed at a domestic audience can reach foreign governments immediately, leaving less time to explain their intended context.

Keep Khan talking to improve the Enterprise's position, or avoid the trap through earlier monitoring and mutually supporting ships.

Three provide a mutually supporting pair and one ship in overwatch; the argument for four is that the overwatch ship would then have a partner too.

Proposals add power, a traversing disruptor and aft torpedoes; the underlying power criticism is disputed because individual ships and their refits vary.

Usually weapon fire interferes with cloaking; Chang's Bird-of-Prey and the Scimitar are cited as unusual exceptions.

Prometheus is one choice within Picard's Enterprise-command era; including later ships brings agreement on Odyssey, with its size and newer weapons and defences.

An evolved second or third batch might gain size and missile capability, while export sales would bring an economic advantage and lower costs.

The estimate is roughly 70 to 90 seconds per sustained round, perhaps one per minute from ready ammunition, with limited early scope for improvement.

An imagined 24-inch gun raises the possibility of firing a protected 21-inch torpedo in a sabot.

The proposal is accepted in principle, with a smaller torpedo suggested to make room; its torpedo function would still depend on entering the water.

Naval orders are predicted to move to England, though no contract-transfer process is set out. Investment uncertainty and regional politics complicate the hypothetical.

Personal recollections challenge an automatic equation between religious affiliation and support for Irish reunification.

A donated Pacer could have supported practical training, but preparing and approving a site remained a separate cost.

Students offered, but the installation needed formal approval. The proposed solution is a senior railway engineer to supervise and sign off the work.

Victory II improves a rushed Republic wartime design, while Imperial II reflects the Empire's later need for heavier capital-ship combat.

The recalled Hawaii proposal has twelve 5-inch/54 guns in Mark 18 turrets and six twin 3-inch/70 mounts; its exact project reference remains uncertain.

Missile uncertainty favoured waiting, and the Counties already offered large hulls and 8-inch guns; the available light-cruiser alternatives were judged less suitable.

A criticism of submarine-order delays is answered through Dreadnought construction priorities and pressure on the Vanguard fleet.

An RNLI discussion distinguishes rescuing people from the care a Royal Navy ship owes once they are aboard.

The preferences differ: some favour Dooku or outer-rim separatism, while others choose the Republic for security, its expected victory or the subsidies supporting particular worlds.

A Clone Wars counterfactual explores warning the Jedi about inhibitor chips and using the Katana fleet to gain their attention.

Such a fleet might change the balance under the question's impossible 1940 construction premise, but moving Mediterranean ships past Gibraltar remains a major obstacle.

Yes, using anchored mines to narrow the passage and supporting them with submarine torpedoes, coastal guns and surface ships.

Fourth rate is rejected, but the alternatives depend on whether the question means a Star Wars Nebula, a Nebulon or Star Trek's Nebula.

Their extra phasers, torpedoes, lance and weapons pod are expected to give Starfleet an overwhelming firepower advantage.

Salvaging useful material is safer because the crew knows its own ship but cannot count on the station's supplies or know why it was abandoned.

They are referring to an FTL distress-call event where sending a crew member can be lethal and specialized boarding equipment changes the options.

Tentative suggestions include Federation-Romulan fighting and BattleTech conflicts involving elite forces, mass mobilization and changes in fleet strength.

Both interpretations favour Earth: Stargate's BC-304 through its American allegiance, and the Battlestar Galactica shipyard through its creators' belief in Earth.

The suggestions remain speculative, including sailing ships with religious names such as Jesus of Lübeck or St Paul.

They could inflict far heavier losses and possibly stop the first fleet, but the much larger follow-up force is still expected to take Reach.

Minefields around Reach need to work with orbital guns to channel attackers and resist sweeping.

The terminology is disputed. Alex suggests a paper-only development while recalling high-explosive and fragmentation rounds as the ammunition actually used by the 100 mm guns.

A hybrid gun is accepted in principle, but rail wear, chemical heat and cooling remain obstacles. Whether a ground installation removes enough constraints is disputed.

A book on Soldati-class destroyers, John Campbell's naval-weapons reference and a work on Italian warships of World War II are recommended.

Germany gains a strong chance of winning the battle, subject to British numbers and ammunition limits; the later submarines are firmly predicted to win the wider war.

Wing Zero is tentatively favoured for its firepower, but limited knowledge of the opposing mech prevents a firm comparison.

Awareness of the unbuilt design is the main obstacle identified, with no definite reason given that it could not be used.

Examples range from an unnamed ship with impossible magazine and turret arithmetic to missile-covered vessels and an armed mobile world.

There was some, but additional crew, maintenance and provisions limited how far rigging could become more complicated.

Similar needs and requirements probably explain the resemblance through convergent development.

The expectation is that every ship will need its own interceptors because threats can arise close to shore during transit.

It is considered a capable gun for MGBs and several target types, although the frigate and Royal Marine vehicle applications are not assessed separately.

The preferences include the Royal Navy and the late-carrack Portuguese Navy, with its combination of heavily armed carracks and numerous galleys.

A powerful warship force still has to stop an enemy landing, making individual ship strength an incomplete measure of success.

A recalled Portuguese encounter with Gujarati galleys illustrates how hull height, cannon and weapons against boarding could offset a numerical disadvantage.

Choices include Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Code Geass, Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Space Battleship Yamato, with Girls und Panzer raised as a disputed genre case.

Assign positions according to weapons and range, with older armament outside and missile ships farther in, while accounting for the setting's magical ship builds.

Suggestions are All at Sea by Terry Deary, A Short History of Seafaring by Brian Lavery, and Little Navy Sailor for babies and toddlers.

Suggestions range from Washington and a brewery ship to shore establishments, with Foxo's choice prompting discussion of serving as a Wren.

Shore establishments retain ship names through the naval practice of assigning personnel to a named ship.

One role-play proposal lengthens an Admiral-class hull, adds a flight deck and flying bridge, and changes its gun arrangement to triples.

Megamind offers a happy ending, while control of a BattleTech drone fleet offers military power whose political usefulness the participants dispute.

Use remote monitoring stations with occasional ship patrols; the question of naval administration is left open.

Land six-inch guns, machine guns and mines quickly, disperse and protect them, and improve one port if mutual support between the islands makes that worthwhile.

Disperse and protect the batteries, use mines, and withdraw guns from exposure while other positions fire.

No firm construction time is given, but a heavy unloading wharf is a much smaller project than a capital-ship maintenance base.

The proposal uses the range, elevation and traverse of fifteen-inch guns to fire on other landing areas and concentrations of troops.

Use small boats and, if facilities permit, sheltered submarines, while bringing in guns first and using a wharf to support later construction.

A proposed quay uses concrete-block walls, earth and rock fill, and a concrete surface to create an unloading point.

The proposed compromise combines earthworks with reinforced or prefabricated structures and protected gun positions, while the speakers disagree about early concrete's resistance to shock.

Marines Malevolent draws criticism for destructive brutality, while the reply points to its hostility toward humanity and political protection within the setting.

The criticism is that these chapters are uninteresting; the reply argues that Angels of Vengeance has distinctive secrecy and motives that this overlooks.

Competing readings of the Alpha Legion examine how elaborate plans and assumed enemy countermeasures can obscure a strategic objective.

Cafeteria service removed the mess system's freedom over menus; complaints elsewhere were reportedly resolved by rotating crews' favourite desserts.