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by RF
Wed Nov 30, 2022 6:34 pm
Forum: Naval Technology
Topic: High towers on Japanese battleships
Replies: 16
Views: 3030

Re: High towers on Japanese battleships

And also the Swedish warship Wasa......
by RF
Mon Nov 28, 2022 6:41 pm
Forum: Naval Technology
Topic: High towers on Japanese battleships
Replies: 16
Views: 3030

Re: High towers on Japanese battleships

Not much evidence of this that I am aware of, presumably the ship designers would take such factors into account?

The German experience with AGS in 1939 didn't seem to affect seakeeping, the main problem was that the tower made the ship easy to identify at long range - as HMS Exeter did.
by RF
Mon Nov 28, 2022 6:35 pm
Forum: Naval History in General
Topic: Operation Weserübung - why
Replies: 30
Views: 4913

Re: Operation Weserübung - why

marcelo_malara wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:44 pm I would say that heavier opposition was expected in Oslo, thus the cruisers there.
Moreover the most important targets - the Norwegian king and government were there and needed to be quickly seized. In the event the attempt still failed.
by RF
Mon Nov 28, 2022 6:33 pm
Forum: Naval History in General
Topic: Operation Weserübung - why
Replies: 30
Views: 4913

Re: Operation Weserübung - why

A force comprising a pocket battleship, heavy cruiser and light cruiser proceeding up the Norwegian coast is likely to be spotted by British air and sea reconnaissance let alone Norwegian observers, the British would sharply react for fear that this force would be intending to break out into the Nor...
by RF
Mon Nov 07, 2022 6:55 pm
Forum: Naval History Post-1945
Topic: Argentine navy: ARA General San Martín
Replies: 2
Views: 8217

Re: Argentine navy: ARA General San Martín

Wikipaedia has some info on this ship.

Built at Bremerhaven, West Germany in 1954 by AG Weser, this vessel was the first purpose built icebreaker for the Argentine Navy and was in service until 1982.
by RF
Wed Oct 05, 2022 5:58 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: What is Putin up to?
Replies: 98
Views: 35748

Re: What is Putin up to?

I fear that both the Russians and the Ukrainians would object, Exactly, hence my rather sarcastic question about who would object. But it would be interesting to see the result of a proper and fair referendum, between being in Russia, being in Ukraine, or being in neither as an independent state of...
by RF
Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:27 am
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: What is Putin up to?
Replies: 98
Views: 35748

Re: What is Putin up to?

As for the so called 'referendum on the regions joining Russia' any referendum that produces results of over 90% (in one case 99%) has got to be a sham, if Putin really believes that Ukraine has always belonged to Russia, why have a referendum? Lets have the referendum under proper international su...
by RF
Thu Sep 29, 2022 5:24 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: What is Putin up to?
Replies: 98
Views: 35748

Re: What is Putin up to?

Looking medium term I would say that ''regime change'' is certainly probable in the US, but not in quite the direction Putin would want. Perhaps maybe a cease fire then, rather like the ceasefire the Germans signed up to in November 1918, just so Russia can survive. In the meantime do the Russians h...
by RF
Thu Sep 29, 2022 7:43 am
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: What is Putin up to?
Replies: 98
Views: 35748

Re: What is Putin up to?

The situation isn't going to sort itself out at all, the war goes on until a ceasefire is agreed. Return to a normal situation ?? Since the onset of Covid, let alone the invasion of Ukraine, what is normal? The situation has changed forever, it continues to change and it looks like Ukraine will beco...
by RF
Wed Sep 28, 2022 8:17 am
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: What is Putin up to?
Replies: 98
Views: 35748

Re: What is Putin up to?

Following are strictly my opinions - > I do not believe that Putin harbors absolutely any ambitions whatsoever to recreate the Soviet Warsaw Pact empire. On the contrary, it is NATO which has been expending effort to create its own version pointed in the opposite direction. I sorry I can't point yo...
by RF
Mon Sep 26, 2022 1:10 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6365

Re: China and the Biden Administration

Taiwan has not been connected to main land China in any way since 1894. This is correct, with one qualification. After the Japanese surrender in 1945 the KMT government took possession of the island, expelled the near half million or so Japanese settlers and by 1949 had repatriated the remainder of...
by RF
Fri Sep 23, 2022 2:00 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: What is Putin up to?
Replies: 98
Views: 35748

Re: What is Putin up to?

I don't think the cold winter will be as severe on Ukraine as it was for the Heer or for Napoleon Bonaparte, Ukraine is further south and marginally less cold, the Ukrainians are on home soil and know the conditions, and if ''global warming'' is happening then it will affect the coldest areas the mo...
by RF
Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:27 am
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: What is Putin up to?
Replies: 98
Views: 35748

Re: What is Putin up to?

To argue that the EU is irrelevant to the military situation is quite misleading. All the major European members of NATO are also EU states. Those very same EU states make it logistically possible for those USD 53 billion dollars (and counting) of American war supplies and support to reach the Zele...
by RF
Tue Sep 20, 2022 1:41 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: What is Putin up to?
Replies: 98
Views: 35748

Re: What is Putin up to?

Hi Byron, It doesn't provide much confidence in the so-called EU 'One big happy family' idea if Russia decided to invade Europe (which they won't, given the hiding they are taking from the Ukrainians!) but it doesn't say much for their supposed unity, I personally think Putin would be standing on t...
by RF
Thu Sep 15, 2022 5:32 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Poorly trained AA crews on Bismarck?
Replies: 21
Views: 4655

Re: Poorly trained AA crews on Bismarck?

Operation Berlin didn't see any air attack on the Twins, though at the end they were observed by Ark Royal's Swordfish and instead of firing on those aircraft Lutjens changed course to north-north east to make it look as if he was heading for the Iceland/Faroes gap instead of Brest. You can't simply...