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Scenario is this - as dark as the clouds of war may have appeared in the days leading to WWII, instead of pulling HMS Renown in for the exhaustive refit she got in 1936, the Brits take a different route and drydock HMS Hood instead. They expend the same amount of material, effort and energy on Hood,...

I know lots of people talk about bringing back the battlewagon; and there's lots of argument about it just would be a floating sailor's coffin. But, like the way aircraft precision strikes and ground support would always be carried out by fighter planes, now unmanned drones fill some of these roles....

Submarines just weren't fast enough to operate with surface ships. In fact, until the late twentieth century US nuclear submarines weren't fast enough. The increased speed of the Los Angeles class submarines was for that very reason ... so they could operate with surface warship The often rotten no...

The Germans had no bases outside Europe with the resources to repair and rearm their surface warships. Fuel supply was critical, as was provision of supply ships. Any damage, however minor, threatened the existence of warships and as demonstrated in the case of Graf Spee and Bismarck easily led to ...

I think the Germans, with an equal or similar attitude in their surface ships that maybe their U-boat commanders had, would have been formidable opponents when operating surface warships like Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Hipper, Prinz Eugen, Bismarck, and especially Tirpitz. You can't worry about your ca...

RF wrote:And welcome to the forum alpha3.

What happened to alpha2? alpha1?

LOL! That's my nickname, everyone calls me that because it refers to my automobile, an
Audi A3....I baby it too much they say! but...A3, hence, 'alpha3'

Been a lurker for a long time, accidentally discovered the site while looking for some information on a model I was building. And of course, having a way over=active imagination, loved the what-ifs. My father (deceased) was in USN naval intelligence at Pearl during WWII. Wish I'd gotten to talk to h...