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God Bless the United States of America and it's efforts, started by George W. Bush, to destroy global islamic terrorism. Osama Bin Laden, the islamic vermin, was shot dead by USA's special forces operation in "allied" territory of Pakistan. A shame that it was during Obama's administratio...

Gentlemen, Once again thanks for your replies, perhaps I mistook the meaning of 'Improve' as when I suggested 3X15" in four turrets I was assuming that the Washington Treaty did not apply and that weight and size was not a concern. OK, then 3x18" in four turrets on 100,000 tons. :D WOW!

Gentlemen,
Once again thanks for your replies, perhaps I mistook the meaning of 'Improve' as when I suggested 3X15" in four turrets I was assuming that the Washington Treaty did not apply and that weight and size was not a concern.

... Oh and sack the admirals, too defensive Sacking the admirals might still be worthwhile but I believe their defensive attitude was at least in part a reflection of their fuel supply. In this they didn't try to do more than they could reasonably project unlike some other axis forces. Gentlemen, T...

Gentlemen, I'm afraid I'm way behind you on the anti aircraft armament, but as regards main armament, if the 15" was regarded as one of the best size guns around how about mounting 4x 15" in triple turrets - surely 12 x 15" ought to be able to deal with most if not all the opposition,...

Gentlemen' Thanks again for all your replies. What still puzzles me is that huge ships like Yamoto/Musashi were presumably designed to keep out the heaviest shells (some well over a ton) but were severly damaged by bombs weighing a lot less (and presumably coming in a a lesser velocity) than say a 1...

Gentlemen, During WW1several tunnels were dug underneath German lines and huge quantities of explosive deposited in them, these were detonated with devestating results as still can be seen from the craters to this day. Hovever, I believe at least two or three did not explode and were left as the tid...

Gentlemen,
What was the difference between the German 'Tiger' tank and their 'King Tiger' tank, were they better than the Russian T34 - and any other Allied tank?

Gentlemen, Many thanks for your replies. Previously I had always imagined that the average carrier aircraft could not carry a bomb heavy enough or high enough for it to penetrate a Battleship's armoured deck. As a matter of interest just how hard would it be to hit a moving (and presumably zigzaging...

Gentlemen, I believe that in Adolf Gallands book 'The First and the Last' he says that Goring actaully asked him what he thought about shooting at parachuting pilots and Galand said he would not do it or allow it. Apparently Goring replied that he was glad that Galland felt that way. It appears that...

Gentlemen, We have discussed the effect of shells and torpedoes on capital ships such as Bismarck, but what about bombs? If we ignore the 6 tonners dropped on Tirpitz and the guided bomb that hit Warspite what effect would the average bomb dropped either from a carrier or land based aircraft have on...

Gentlemen, After all this discussion, what are your conclusions - given that this is a hypothetical situation, so we must assume that both ships are fully operational and are in a one to one situation. Also, after this let us imagine the same confrontation but against Warspite with her fully worked ...

Wasn't such a design part of the thinking in the genesis of the Bismarck? It might have been, but despite what some people say I believe that it was the torpedoes from the Dorsetshire that finally sank her. If submarine torpedoes are the same size then no doubt they would have the same effect. Afte...

Gentlemen, This is a facinating subject and one which could run for a long time. My question is this, we have seen from the Bismarck and even the Scharnhorst battles that it would be very difficult for one battleship to sink another by shellfire alone in a one to one encounter of ships of equvilent ...

Gentlemen, I have posed this question before on another topic so I don't wish to reopen it to any extent. I have to admit I know absoloutly nothing about welding but as the subject of welds splitting due to stresses, I now wonder whether the theory of the Graff Spey running away due to her welded hu...