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@Karl Hm – ok – I got the point and – well – no, we will not end at the same analysis then :? . You ask how to take into account that Norfolk and Suffolk did not engage from the start, how to take into account that Hood aimed at the Prince instead Bismarck as she should have done, and … :!: That is ...

Could not have explained it better. As an addon – you might have come across the term ‘soft kill’ in respect to battleship encounters. That is a situation where you did not manage to get a shell into the (relatively small – just engines and magazines) vitals of the battleship but the structural dama...

Could not have explained it better. As an addon – you might have come across the term ‘soft kill’ in respect to battleship encounters. That is a situation where you did not manage to get a shell into the (relatively small – just engines and magazines) vitals of the battleship but the structural dama...

Hej Karl! Well – I think one point that joins us here is that we all do like to some extend the Battleship Bismarck. I do! :D Yet I do not like the virtual Ueberschlachtschiff Bismarck. There are many WebPages out there about Bismarck. kbismarck.com is one of the few where genuine information is pro...

Bgile wrote:I'm a bit skeptical that the Germans can sink 3 British battleships with no cost to themselves, but this whole idea of alternate history hurts my brain once you get past 1v1. :)

Karl Heidenreich wrote:
... lightly armoured Rodney ...

Well that´s one idea.
Regards!

A fine story but - i am afraid - just that ... a story

See here:
http://kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=522

Ciao,
Ufo

All those shells that didn't explode or only detonated mildly makes me think it wasn't the Bismarck that sank the Hood at all. Maybe there really was an accident in one of the Hood's turrets afterall. Why would the Bismarck's shells be more effective against the Hood than the PoW? I would even ques...

Well spotted! :D But as it is an article and not a pick and mix :wink: - you also have to take into account the bit where the author calculates the ignition depth of Bismarck’s shells to be less than 3.5 metres at the distance where HMS Hood was hit. Now for the hit on HMS Prince of Wales the distan...

... Well, I would start to analize the underwater travel distance of both shells (of Bismarck and PoW) before conclude that It would have detonated before reach the ship if the fuse would have worked properly, because both shells had a delay time in their fuse quite similar if I remember. The shell...

... As Bgile said, the PoW was very lucky with the underwater shell. It could have produced the loss of a pair of knots (in some cases, it is said that the effects of this explosion if the shell would have worked properly as it did the 14 Inch shell of PoW in Bismarck, could have damaged the adjace...

... About the photon torpedoes I believe they are outdated: Enterprise E uses more sophisticated quantum torpedoes. Enterprise! The Big E! I did not think of this … its always the Americans who come along with their bigger gear and spoil the broth! First they had their superheavies for the 16’ and ...

A – well – interesting thought. :think: Could it be that it is far into fantasy and well disconnected from reality? On Raeder’s strategy I do very much recommend reading: “Raeder versus Wegener: conflict in German naval strategy” in War College Review; Autumn 2oo5 by Kenneth P. Hansen. (Google - I t...

The German Ministry of Defence as now official holder of the records of German war honours records only one recipient of an iron cross in WWII; the test pilot Hanna Reitsch. If you google her name you get numerous pages detailing her life and achievements. Many public dictionary pages suggest two re...

Whow, Ulrich! Magnificent! :clap: There is a grace and beauty in wooden shipbuilding that has not been reached by anything made from metal, let alone plastics. And these guys did think in centuries not just for tomorrow. In the South of England you can still find the remnants of Woods with Oaken Tre...