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No problem. In fact I learnt it this month!!!

Type 42 destroyers are made of steel, not aluminium, that is another urban (or sea!!!) legend.

water-tight compartments (also for keeping live fish and for bathing), and triple rudders. Large models in museums, and also sold as a kit by Trumpeter, give dimensions that are bizarre; at 1:1250, the model would come out to approximately 12 cm LOA, 12 cm keel to truck, and a beam of 4.9 cm! There...

Yes, I heard that many times, but I am not sure, in fact I think nobody can say that for sure. The Exocet sustainer burns for 150 s (see http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/exocet.htm), so that at a speed of 300 m/s means that it will be totally depleted after 45km. I don´t know the exact...

Thanks Robert. As usual I am surprised by your knowledge of Latin America, I hope someday you pay a visit to us. The Falklands/Malvinas war is almost forgotten here, the only day remembered is April 2dn, the landing itself. I believe that today the Atlantic Conveyor was sunk too, in the same attack ...

No Robert, it is a physical concept applied in meteorology, but as the shells are under the influence of the Coriolis force as well as the winds, I presume it must apply too.

You can't make them keep going round in circles in the horizontal sense. In fact you can. Theoretically if you fire a shell at enough velocity, the Coriolis force would make it describe an horizontal curve such that it will reach a position close to the launching point. It is called inertia circle.

Normally bullets or shells are fired on a linear trajectory, they won't do a complete circle so you get shot by your own bullet in the back of your head.... Every bullet is fired in a linear trajectory, even the round-the-corner weapon. The difference is that the trajectory line in this case is at ...

And that´s the lack that the rest of Europe today has. How do you expect the Germans to sink Belgrano or the French to land in the Falklands if they were not able to stop genocide in Kosovo? Serbia was their backyard and they did nothing at all! There was not will of stopping the killings there, be...

Napoleon once stated: "defensive warfare´s only outcome is defeat". A fleet in being is absurd.

In my opinion a fleet in being is not defensive warfare but a permament menace to the enemy, telling him that the attack can come any moment.

I think that the problem with the vikings is that the discovery was not carried on with long time settlements, so the fact that they came first was forgotten.

So the 15" is 10% better.

Here's the penetration in inches (KM/RN armour) from Naab: 14" 15" range (yds) 21.2 22.8 10k 17.9 19.3 15k 15.2 16.4 20k 13.2 14.1 25k Duncan: Are you aware that the penetration numbers you posted don´t agree with navweapons? I know that the source is arguably, but why would your source b...

If Bismarck had been given KGV's guns, the weight saved would have allowed a 4 shaft machinery layout, yet Bismarck's offensive capabilities would not have suffered, Sorry, one last time, can you please justify why the 14" is at least equal to the 15"? Are you aware of the problems the Br...

Hood and Bismarck date from different eras and their technology is vastly different. Yes, but the Germans designers stayed with a 3 shaft configuration, which limited the power output against a 4 shaft ship. All in all, a 4 shaft would at most have added 2 knots, at the price of protection. My conc...