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Thanks, Tommy.

Thanks for the replies.

Gentlemen,

the German cruiser Admiral Hipper was put in dock for repair after a cruise in the Atlantic in 1941. Do you know when the work was finished and the ship operationnal ?

Thanks for any help,

Francis Marliere

Gentlemen, In 1941, the RAF damaged the German ships at Brest. Gneisenau was hit by a torpedo on 6 April then by 4 bombs 5 days later, Scharnhorst was hit by 5 bombs on 24 July and Prinz Eugen took a lone bomb on 2 July. Do you know when these ships were repaired ? Thanks for any help, Francis Marli...

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alecsandros wrote:[
but pictures from battle of Matapan clearly show dispersion of at least 500-600y for 3-gun salvos fired by Veneto.

Hello Alecsandros,

I am interested by this picture. Can you post it or provide a link please ?
Thanks in advance,

Francis

The interesting thinmg with the Japanese Navy was that they developed a lot of equipment to attack the enemy battlefleet in assymetric ways, like long range torpedoes, submarines, carrier borne aircraft, long range torpedo bombers, night attacks by destroyers etc, all in the belief that they needed...

Re Japanese expansion into the Asian mainland - IIRC, it was the leaders of the Japanese Army who led the drive to do so (although I'm not completely certain of the exact position ofthe navy leadership in that regard) Byron, as far as I understand Evans & Peatty's "Kaigun", the IJN is...

Alecsandros, I don't think that they were so stpupid and incompetent. The Type 93 torpedo, as good as it was, was not, and was not considered as a magic weapon that could win the war by itself. Torpedo hits are few, especially at the distance the Japanese expected to use them. If I understand you we...

Hello Alecsandros, I fear that your comments on IJN are a bit hard and unfair. You analyze their doctrine and battleplan with hindsight. You know that gunfire accuracy was less than expected. You know that planes and submarines became in WWII more dangerous and important weapons than battleships. Bu...

Hello Alecsandros, as far as I remember, the Navy complained that he did not follow the procedure. Billy Mitchell wanted at all cost to be "right" and claimed that he had sunk a battleship under war conditions (that was wrong because the target was not moving and firing). You are right in ...

Hello Alecsandros, as you know, the attacks on Ostfriesland were far from conclusive. The ship was immobile, undefended, and Billy Mitchell cheated. Admirals were right to think that a battleship steaming at full speed, steering evasively and fring its AA guns could hardly be hit by the bombers of t...

Use aircraft (better ones than they had and with better pilots). Or submarines. Gentlemen, I am afraid that argument is a bit anachronic. It is easy, 70 years after the war, to say that "they" should have build planes and submarines instead of battleships because we know that big guns shi...

pg555, Could you please elaborate your comments on naval radar ? I may be mistaken (English is not my native language and I sometimes misunderstand), but they are not validated by neither "common wisdom" nor publication (especially "Fast Battleship Gunnery during World War II: A Gunne...

Alecsandros, I don't contest that ; I don't expect hit ratio to be very high at such long range under combat conditions. I just recommand you the Jurens & Fischer articles that are really worth reading. As far as I know there is no other comparable publication or book on the subject. Best, Francis