The P-47 and the Zero had elliptical wings. The clipped wings versions of the Spitfire was done to increase the rate of roll. The Spitfire without clipped wings had a slow rate of roll, which put it at a disadvantage against the FW-190, particularly. The FW-190 had the highest rate of roll of any WW...
There has been a return to sanity: https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018-National-Defense-Strategy-Summary.pdf It's like it never happened. Some comments by Anthony Watts: The new National Defense Strategy makes no mention of “global warming” or “climate change”. The document makes n...
I was expecting bearing measurement to be much less precise than an optical measurement (due to the width of the lobe) but I do trust your clarification of course. The Seetakt radars after mid 1940 used a type of fine bearing indication called radattel peilung. It was a phased array scanning of onl...
... and based on pure radar range (good), bearing (I don't know how good...) and estimated course/speed (quite bad with the radars of 1941, as radar is in its infancy for Germans too) . In the case of the FuMO27 radars on Bismarck and Prinz Eugen in 1941 this would be calculated by the fire control...
Less money in the people's pockets by any means is the same effect. It always retards economic growth and innovation. Energy subsidies in this case are transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. So unnecessary. Moreover, the needed funding to keep the Navy solvent is a fraction of what is being w...
Germany has flushed billions down the drain and hamstrung its own economy through its Energiewende policies. All this has proven futile and has always been unnecessary. It boils down to priorities.
One more thing, it was reported that some of Rodney's shots were going well over, as the final range seems to have come down to 1 1/2-2 miles could meaning she could hardly miss, could that be some of her shells passing straight through the superstructure,which by all accounts was absolutely shot t...
Welding technology wasn't really secret. It had been developed in the private sector for the most part. The reason the Japanese eschewed the use of extensive welding in warships was because they had had bad experiences with it previously. The main reason for this bad experience was because they used...
The 1914 Inflexible guns probably cannot penetrate PG's vitals at any range, because the shells will breakup when striking any armour at all at 20* or greater obliquity. The 1918 AP shells are better and could be a threat should PG's command be foolish enough to close within 20,000 yards. Both the 1...
The cruiser in such a scenario will likely use HE -at least at first. The German 8" AP had an extra large and extra heavy cap, though. De-capping or not may play a role.
On the other side of the coin, can or is the Inflexible using post Jutland munitions?
Hipper hit a destroyer with its first salvo on two different occasions in the dark at ranges as great of about 18km with a cruiser caliber weapon, and with slightly inferior FC equipment. Surely BS has even greater potential. W-W has to deal with the possibilities. He can't know what the performance...
Hi Dave, I'm not. I have just proposed what is my view in terms of probability and what was the actual shooting at DS with the actual conditions (and also on 23, 24 and 26 out of DS battle). Personally, if you ask me, regarding the first shots , I think Hood fired far below expectations and probabi...
Hi Duncan, exceptions (and lucky hits) are not the rule but anyway the hits you mention happened below 10sm . At DS no ship hit over 10,44 sm (PoW :clap: 6th salvo). Germans hit only below 10 sm, with PG scoring a hit at 4th salvo from 9.3 sm and Bismarck "only" at her 6th or 7th salvo fr...