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Sure she was...in her days. In 1982 she was but the shadow of that, her machinery was so noisy that Conqueror could hear her at a distance of 60.000 yards, her max speed was limited to 18 kt, and, could never find data supporting this, I am sure that her main armament, what all the complexities of t...

Three triple turrets on the bow and two triple ones on the stern.

Oh yes, I should have said it, I meant a fleet carrier .

Hi guys. Do you know if any naval power did ever show interest in acquiring an ex USN carrier? May be Italy, Germany...? Would the US government had authorized that export?

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I see, target designator might be a better name for it. In the report they suggest it should removed from the artillery command post, so was it a display of some sort? Showing target bearing? Normally the target designator would be a periscope in the armoured conning tower so the CO would tell the ...

Hi, look at this for example:

http://www.u-historia.com/uhistoria/for ... php?t=1584

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The Baltimore class is quiet unique in being the only (AFAIK) cruiser class that has adequate protection against its own caliber, making it a kind of a scaled down battleship. Friedman´s British Cruisers mentions that the RN commissioned a study to know how big would be a cruisers with this kind of ...

Sorry for the delay. I am thinking from another point of view now. My theory of the thrust cancelling buoyancy can be said to belong to the field of the statics. What happens in the field of dynamics? We can accept the vertical (to the bottom) movement inevitably caused by the negative buoyancy, but...

Thanks Dave, this is something I doubted too, not only the real names of the operations but if the places name´s were the same in Japanese and in English.

CEP factor here. The whole point of the bouncing bomb was that it would roll down the upstream side of the dam and end up right at the base. Anybody know the minimum CEP to be expected by a Tall Boy? I don´t know, but seeing what it took the the US to impact the Thanh Hoa bridge in Vietnam you can ...

The 178/9 ish degree angle of the axis of the body of the torpedo to the thrust direction of the diverted prop wash gives the few hundred pounds of positive buoyancy necessary to balance the intrinsic negative buoyancy built into the design. High speed in an off-axis direction of travel in a dense ...

Look at this graphs:

They are rudders and thus crudely divert water flow creating side thrust disrupting the hull's smooth passage through the water. They are just like a ship's rudder that pushes the stern to port to make the ship turn to starboard. They are not aerofoils/hydrofoils creating lift through differential ...

Hi Wadinga Because the negative buoyancy is small, water is dense and the torpedo speed is high Small or not, the negative buoyancy is present, and must be cancelled, if not the torpedo would accelerate vertically to the bottom, albeit almost in a horizontal position. the horizontal rudders do not h...

Yes guys, the control would ultimately fall to the depth rudders, but how? The rudders would push the tail down, so the nose will be pushed up, but that attitude would be maintained for all the travel, as the torpedo would constantly accelerate to the bottom because of its heaviness. The question is...