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Red Banner Pacific Fleet vs US 7th Fleet Ok Naval Grognards, The Red Banner Pacific Fleet sorties in a show of force and is soon confronted by CVBG 5 of the US 7th Fleet out of Yokasuka, Japan. The Russian fleet is centered on a new upgraded Kirov class battlecruiser accompanied by the Slava class ...

I agree with Djoser, though Gneisenau was only making minor repairs in Brest. Scharnhorst was having more extensive work done on her boilers, but the British did not know this. In fact, the Brits believed the possibility of a new sortie by the Twins was very real in April '41, and Kapt Eric Fein ab...

The novel that inspired this post, “Golem 7” touches on many of these issues. Sure, the Brits will throw everything the RAF has at her if she reaches Brest, but remember that that port had some of the strongest AA defenses in France. The fate of “the twins” cannot be used as a measure to predict Bis...

What was the decisive “event” that allowed the Royal Navy to sink Bismarck? And what if the Royal Navy failed to sink her on that fateful maiden voyage? The sinking of the Bismarck was a series of strange quirks, mishaps, misjudgments that all needed to happen for the British to be successful. Ther...

No, the Achilles heel of Kirov is that she is limited to the ammo inventory she has. Yet, as the ship was about to undertake live fire exercises, Kirov's inventory of Moskit-II "(Sunburn-II)" SSM missiles was doubled. So at the time she arrives in 1941 here inventory is as follows: 40 x Mo...

Kirov vs the Royal Navy – 1941 OK, as this is a forum for hypothetical scenarios, I took a long look at the development of modern naval surface combatants vs their WWII counterparts and then put it into a 400 page fictional novel entitled “ Kirov ,” a military fiction novel akin to “The Final Count...