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Screenshot 2024-01-02 072847.png 12,7 cm dual purpose as per 1942 salvo timing <5 sec (mechanized ammo transfer from the magazines to the barrel) the 28 cm armament of D and E was driven by scheduling commitments. Any other gun required about one year additional development. As Germany has only few...

Unterlagen und Richtlinien zur Bestimmung der Hauptkampfentfernung und der Geschoßwahl Heft e schwere Kreuzer states for Hipper class

30 mm (third deck) as ballistic relevant.

https://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=86471#p86471 from an old post rough comparison Weights ...............................AGS................................Prinz Eugen Hull..........................4000...............................5500 Armor........................2800...................

marcelo_malara wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 3:00 pm Whereas Hipper maximum belt armour is given at 80mm, Baltimore´s is listed as 6", almost double.

As far as I know all WW2 US cruisers had a relatively shallow but comparatively thick armour at the waterline and were intendet to present a 30 degrees target angle.

Yes

I am quite surprised to find that-- so far as I know -- in this discussion no-one has yet made any reference to Appendix D-9 of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Europe Roport No. 227-45 "Underwater Explosion Research in the German Navy". It's very comprehensive, and -- although it does...

no Bismarcks TDS was fullsize tested against 300 kg S1... your AFAIK was wrong. https://www.kbismarck.org/forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=4317 In Addition the blast effect of S1 is about 1,4 times of the Blasteffect of TNT https://www.kbismarck.org/forum/posting.php?mode=edit&f=1&p=...

Handbuch für an Bord befindliche Geschütze Stand 01.01.1939 g.Kdos

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z02ohI ... p=drivesdk

Technical data. 2 cm - 10,5 cm guns.

ich hatte glaube ich im Marinearchiv angefragt ob sich wer beteiligt. Leider kann ich den Thread nicht mehr finden. jedenfalls habe ich bestellt und alles finanziert und die Dokumente aus Kew in Papierform erhalten. waren zwei oder drei Bestellungen eine 2010 2011 Später habe ich die eingescannt und...

you may take a recent post of mine at the navweaps forum: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/warships1discussionboards/rank-the-battleships-t50024-s640.html#p1102205 SUPP 22/68 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B12aaMD-x_k_V0xSTlphdXgtak0/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-f7VYw107wyKGcNWCoxs7Ug SUPP 22...

Im Thoddy or Thoddyx or Thorsten Wahl

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If you could be a bit more specific, I could try to look some numbers up. You might want to refer to the paper Strafford Morss and I wrote on the machinery plant of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) in Warship International about 15 years ago. It should be up on JSTOR. This contains a series of complete he...

Thank you I meant max amount of steam produced by the boilers available for propulsion and auxilliaries. I suspect its about 800 tons steam per hour for the complete powerplant at 212,000 SHP +~maybe 150 tons per hour reserve for 254,000 SHP at overload condition the article 2 only mentions the dail...