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Here's an update on the real situation with La Palma; http://www.thedailysheeple.com/strong-quake-and-rapid-inflation-in-the-canary-islands-the-el-hierro-volcano-ready-to-blow_122013 Okay first of all please excuse the dumb website name, and I personally don't like it being implied or suggested to m...

As Author of the book, I rewrote the rather tame promotional blurb that appears on the book's Amazon Kindle page to read as follows: ((begin)) 'Yamato-Class No. 111 – IJN Kii' "La Palma is an unstable mountain waiting to fall, perched high above the Atlantic and standing right at the edge of a ...

Starting tomorrow, 'Yamato-Class No. 111 - IJN Kii' will be available as a free promo download for 5 days at this link; http://www.amazon.com/Yamato-Class-No-111-IJN-Kii-ebook/dp/B00H21NUKC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1387541988&sr=1-1&keywords=Yamato-Class+No.+111 Another ...

Since it's a fiction e-book this seemed like the best place to post. My new fiction book "Yamato-Class No. 111 - IJN Kii" is live in the Amazon Kindle Store and has been enrolled in KDP Select. As such, it will be available as a free download for five days, from 12-21 to 12-25, as a promot...

I see now where my confusion over bomb loads arises. There were different versions of the Corsair which had different bomb capacities.

Thank you very much. What would be the bomb load for an F4U dive bombing a ship? Sources seem to say as much as one 1,000 pound bomb under each wing, and one 2,000 pound bomb under the belly; total of 4,000 pounds for a dive bombing attack? I was actually asking, is that the normal bomb load for an...

Thank you very much. What would be the bomb load for an F4U dive bombing a ship? Sources seem to say as much as one 1,000 pound bomb under each wing, and one 2,000 pound bomb under the belly; total of 4,000 pounds for a dive bombing attack?

Thank you, that's exactly what I thought, though not in such excellent detail.
I apologize for my confusing post title, which should have asked the same as my post.

An F4U Corsair can carry two wing-mounted 1,000 pound bombs and one 2,000 pound belly mounted bomb, a 4,000 pound bomb load. Which one will be falling faster by the time it hits a ship's deck? 1. A 1,000 or 2,000 pound bomb dropped from a level flight at a height of 9,000 feet by something such as a...

It sounds to me almost as if, with a stated allowance of 200 to 250 service rounds, Yamato might easily go to 300, and possibly even get away with going to 400, 500, or possibly even 600 before things start to really get bad.

Really? I mean, all this endless talk about how, if an Iowa-class battleship ever met Yamato, it's all about how Missouri would target Yamato on radar from a distance and do radar targeting while in fast maneuvers and drop endless numbers of shells on Yamato, and how Yamato couldn't shoot back and h...

I just read this entire thread and found it most interesting and informative. Thank you very much. The reason I'm posting in reply, is that I found a reference on page 60 of 'The Battleship Yamato' by Janusz Skulski, to a 'radar jammer'; "Radar jammer -- 7 antennas fitted on both sides and aft ...

Various sources give IJN Yamato's 46cm barrel life as 200 to 250 service rounds. What would happen if they tried to run the same barrels to 400 or 500 rounds? Is there an increasing danger that the overused barrels will suddenly rupture? Or do they start to get increasing propellent blow-by but stil...

You've certainly given me a most knowledgeable answer which I very much appreciate. Thank you very much. In a book on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5, I seem to recall reading that armor penetration decreased with range. But perhaps that had to do with vertical side plate, whereas you seem to be sp...

According to a few references I found, the fourth Yamato type battleship would have been Number 111. I wish I could find where I saw it, but someone reported that whereas Yamato's belt armor was 410 mm thick, 111's would have been 400. And where Yamato's deck armor was 200 to 230mm thick, 111's woul...