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Hello everybody, Wadinga wrote: "Bismarck opened fire half a minute after the Prince of Wales, before doing so turning to open her "A" arcs. " I will respect Mr.Jurens request and avoid to say what I have in mind about Mr.Wadinga, who is evidently not respecting Mr.Jurens request in his above post....

"the battleship Littorio, while able to target the Caio Duilio with her rangefinders previously, this became impossible when the other battleship turned on her searchlights and blinded the Littorio. However, use of 'Zeiss-Septar' polarizing filters made it possible to target the other battleship wi...

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Tribal Class Destroyers (source of the above) states that the motto was indeed 'Chisarayi' but states it translated as "stay in peace".

And did Bismarck suffer a hit in her boiler room during her final fight? Some claim so. Her vitals were supposed to be immune against such hits at these ranges. There may be some confusion here from the DS battle, where one of the three hits by POW did penetrate a boiler room, where five stokers su...

Hello everybody, Wadinga wrote: "Alberto, please treat us equally and criticise Antonio for relying on Lagemann's captions" possibly Mr.Wadinga has not understood yet that NH69722 is showing the first salvo NOT due to Lagemann caption, but due to the careful analysis done by Antonio on the smoke an...

1 - The budget deficit is completely different from the national debt. 2 - The budget was balanced during the Clinton administration years because, after the first mid-term election, the Republican party achieved control of both houses of congress and thereby controlled the budget process. B 1 - it...

"We've seen the same pattern of massive deficit spending by the previous 3 Republican admins ..." Which Republican administration was it that doubled the national debt of the United States in eight years? B President Donald Trump: Total Actual plus Budgeted = $5.683 trillion, almost as much in one ...

The dependence of the US on massive deficit spending is frightening. When interest rates rise, as we know they will, then the proverbial s__t will hit the fan and it will be 2007 all over again. We've seen the same pattern of massive deficit spending by the previous 3 Republican admins, and there's ...

Back however to the Bismarck track and firing , it is clear that Mr.Wadinga has been left alone by all his co-deniers with his theory that the correct battlemap is the 1990 one, published in the last edition of the Baron's book. Yeah, how could a battlemap drawn by two of the actual gunnery officer...

The RAF was supplied with ~100 B-29s which were named 'Washingtons' in RAF service. They operated in the early 1950s to close the gap between the development of UK nuclear weapons and the jet powered V-bombers.

Just checked several versions of this battle. The short version is the SD was leading and perhaps 500-1000 meters to the Washintons starboard - closer to the enemy. When the SD was hit its speed fell off rapidly, causing it to mask the enemy from the accelerating Washington as it pass on the SD por...

18k meters = 20k yds = ~0557 as per PoW's salvo chart.

It was superior doctrine not optics that gave one side an advantage over the other at night. The RN learned from the Germans (the hard way during WW1) how to fight effectively at night and perfected their techniques between the wars, and they taught the IJN what they learned. The IJN used flashless ...

There was a gentlemans agreement amongst the treaty powers that allowed for small increases in displacement beyond the limit because it was hard to accurately estimate many of the construction and weapon weights. There was also an unwritten allowance made for ships to be able to carry 'overloads' of...

It is sometimes possible to set up logic tests for various assumptions to see if the assumption passes/fails the test. For example, A/A's contention that Norfolk and Suffolk at 0600 were much closer to Hood, Bismarck and PE than stated by W-W and plotted by Pinchin. The test for this assumption was ...