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- Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:39 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Interesting Bomber Data Outcome...
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Re: Interesting Bomber Data Outcome...
.... Range (Combat Radius) in miles (not knots): 4480, 3445, 3200 ... Why would anyone measure range in knots? Nautical miles are more commonlly used than either stat miles or kilometers in navigation and especially aviation, because it's based on the longitude and latitude segmention of earth mapp...
- Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:25 pm
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- Topic: Interesting Bomber Data Outcome...
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Speaking of Stealth, here's an interesting web page writing about some early research:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us:80/Gema.htm
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us:80/Gema.htm
- Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:00 pm
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- Topic: Interesting Bomber Data Outcome...
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- Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:22 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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- Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:15 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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- Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:54 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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- Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:29 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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[From what I've read penetrating an armored layer tends to change the projectiles course toward the normal not away. ... . Yaw is not the change in trajectory upon penetration. There is trajectory change more toward the normal (some programs drastically over estimate this, or fudge this, to obtain ...
- Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:59 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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- Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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- Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:50 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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- Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:40 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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According to Derek Howse (a noted Britsh expert on WWII naval radar and involved with the ASE at the time), Scharnhorst had a Hohentwiel search radar. Frank Rueter also claims this. I find Howse's and Rueter's claims very plausible, because the Tirpitz had been equipped with a Hohentwiel prior to th...
- Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:27 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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Scharnhorst seems not to have benefited from this supposedly superior German radar. In fact, as far as I know the Germans weren't even using the surface search radar with rotating antenna used by allied forces. Didn't the Germans still have to scan for targets using their main fire control array? Y...
- Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:05 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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- Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:20 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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Even if the radars quality wise were close to each other the allies had a much better doctrine and a lot more experiance... The German Navy was gaining radar experience years before the Allied navies even had comparable radars in service. The German Navy obtained a lot of war experience in the use ...
- Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:03 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck against BB-57 South Dakota
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A spaced array armouring scheme may be able to better deal with a projectile that is difficult to defeat at longer ranges using more conventional techniques, because it can potentially destroy the projectile, render it inert, or otherwise prevent it from penetrating intact. It also introduces fuzing...