Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books

Ask for the evidence; a claim cannot displace archival documentation until comparable supporting material is available.

Modify the deck-edge lift and operating arrangement; the design appears adaptable enough to handle an E-2.

Italy might aim for four, but a three-ship batch is the more plausible completed program.

The Italian concept retained an aft main turret even as all-forward batteries offered a potentially simpler arrangement.

Probably a customized derivative of an available turbojet, with the choice driven by whether cruise efficiency or top speed took priority.

No; Britain could undertake limited operations or exploit a civil war, but that is very different from fielding an army able to take Russia.

About Yamato size once the design also carries useful armour and the required machinery.

Going faster becomes disproportionately expensive in power, machinery volume, and total hull size.

A reliable, capable platform that could be modified to suit individual navies, even if it was not the most upgradeable design.

Similar external dimensions can conceal very different displacement because heavy armour consumes weight and internal volume.

Probably not; the Royal Navy's use of 28 knots plus indicates that the plus sign is concealing a meaningful margin.

Extremely heavy: up to about 15 inches on the belt and barbettes, with six to eight inches of deck armour and heavily protected turrets.

Generally not: modern cruise ships are slower and less conversion-friendly, although Queen Mary 2 is a notable possible exception.

Clandestine beach sampling for D-Day drew on Royal Marine and Royal Navy personnel, with possible Army participation.

A few thousand extra treaty tons might have turned Nelson and Rodney into the first true fast battleships.

Exposed oceans such as the South Atlantic and broad Pacific are hard on small ships, encouraging larger hulls with better seakeeping.

The evidence is contested; no settled answer is offered, and the subject requires further investigation.

Both speed and intended waters matter; a South Atlantic high-speed requirement demands more strength than the same speed in the Mediterranean.

It may have legal powers to do so, but dispersed aircraft, international ownership, and competing jurisdictions make modern requisition much less straightforward.

The claim is plausible in view of the carrier's eight reactors, although no documented speed trial is presented here.

The F-14/Phoenix combination and the post-Falklands Sea Harrier illustrate two naval routes to certified beyond-visual-range interception.

Enterprise's exceptional power came with the burden of coordinating eight reactor plants whose operating chemistry could differ.

A book tour introduces Templar heraldry and organization as practical evidence for how the military order identified and structured itself.

Measured allocations of meat, wine, and oil reveal both an organized supply system and the value placed on Turcopole auxiliaries.

Detailed rules for alarms, formations, banners, and charges show how the Templars controlled armed cavalry under battlefield pressure.

Very complicated: pilots needed considerable lighting to manage already difficult deck operations, exposing the carrier in the process.

Photographs and campaign narrative recover the multinational Allied fighting in Burma during 1944.

A campaign extract follows West African, British, Chinese, and American-directed forces through monsoon operations, Japanese resistance, and command turmoil.

Slim's professionalism may have made the campaign less dramatic, but later publicity still did little to give the Fourteenth Army the recognition it deserves.

A modeling reference supports plans to reconstruct Mediterranean and Pacific carrier battles with photographable ship models.

The durability lessons from USS America are set against the political symbolism of using a nationally resonant ship name in destructive tests.

The Walls of Justinian introduces a source-rich but contested picture of the sixth-century Roman army and challenges a simple narrative of military decline.

Procopius records the troops needed for his narrative rather than supplying the complete order of battle modern historians would prefer.

As imagery rather than a literal description, although this brief answer does not explain the work's full reception history.

Court armies, regional magistri militum, provincial duces, and campaign appointments formed a flexible hierarchy across the empire.

Yes; examples from the 1960s and 1970s showed Buccaneers causing particular trouble by flying too low for easy radar locks.

Property-holding frontier troops and regional mobile forces formed complementary layers rather than proof of an army collapsing into part-time militia.

Huns, Lombards, and other allied formations were recruited for skills and dangerous assignments rather than simply replacing ineffective Romans.

A nationally charged name and World Trade Center steel give an amphibious ship political durability as well as symbolic meaning.

The nearest Tribal-class destroyer wreck, preferably HMS Cossack.

A pet discussion sketches the poodle's older roles as a flock guardian and war dog before modern colour-focused breeding.

Roughly 18,000 yards for cruiser weapons and about 14,000 yards for 4.7-inch destroyer guns, with destroyers preferring closer action near 10,000 yards.