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Wasn't there a report from the KM about the inferior quality of French armor?

Out if my mind. There was a arms race between Diesel und turbines in Germany. For scharnhorst Raeder waited ti the latest moment take the decision between both concepts. Only electric drive systems were disregarded for weight reasons. A second point was that Siemens. reported problems with speed con...

Without details and primary sources. Hessen was radio controlled and was able to change course and speed

The Hipper class in general seems rather large for their fighting capability. Granted, they had excellent artillery and fire control, but at more than 1.5 times the displacement of a County class, they do seem large and expensive in comparison. The Hipper class also had extremely unreliable machine...

Epecially as it shooting outclassed the USS Houston. Paul Schmalenbach did mention it in his book: "test shooting commenced after 6 salvos with the forward turret group, because target was not visible anymore" Any more info on this ? I once red about it on a page in the web. Unfortunately...

@Alexandros

sorry for address you as Alexandria. Sometimes my mobile want to be clever and changes wording unexpected.

The US Navy crew that sailed Prinz Eugen to Bikini Atoll thought she was wonderful. Some thought we should keep her instead of using her for the tests. Epecially as it shooting outclassed the USS Houston. Paul Schmalenbach did mention it in his book: "test shooting commenced after 6 salvos wit...

Compared to the state of the rudder the machines were fully intact. It would have been sufficient to escape to Brest.

Alexandria I'm sure you made some new friends on the other side of the Atlantic. Usual comments from there are: oversized, short legged and not designed for it's purpose commerce raiding. IMNHO it was a fast and well shooting man of war. It could not play it's role because the other assets of KM wer...

Res the Brandenburger. It was a Kommando unit

You can speak of Lütjens battleships, because he was Chief of the Fleet. But not of his U-boots, bbecause they belonged to Dönitz. There was no plan to lure the enemy into a trapp

If I remember the Baron correctly, than this picture was taken during the training in the Baltics.

It might nitpicking, but PE is AMC Pelikan were as Prinz Eugen is PG

Probably US Navy would have been able to enter the steering geat room which was flooded every 20 seconds or so and uncouple the damaged ruder.:-)

Could you name critical piece of equipment outside the citadel?