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Prototype and Design, or Industrial Model Building, depending on how you want to put it. Gonna be playing with lots of toys, ranging from CAD to CAM and CNC machines. Its too bad they don't have a CMM that I'm aware of. Oh well. Tomorrow, I start learning Solidworks. I'll try to keep the updates com...

Some things I would do... Lay down and complete Bismarck and Tirpitz as Scharnhorst class vessels. Pass on the light cruisers in favor of more rapid completion of more Admiral Hipper class ship. complete the Graf Zeppelin. Forego the Type 2 uboats in favor of a 100% Type 7 submarine force. And thats...

This reminds me of a what if scenario about a single M1 tank at the Battle of the Bulge...

All I'm going to say is, if you were gonna do it right, use the ships the Navy had available in 1939, as they were equipped in 1939.

USS Salt Lake City, USS Omaha and USS Milwaukee would be my picks.

That's so much help. I think I can finally visualize what happened now when the magazine blew to cause the turret to lift off. The handling rooms probably had reasonable stash of ready ammo, and when the magazine blew, the handling room went, and turned the barbette into a giant venturi tube which l...

That would depend on your definition of the weapon in question

The US built a mortar called Little David with a Bore of 36 inches, but I would consider Schwere Gustav the biggest gun ever with its 31 inch bore, and sheer SIZE!

Most likely the explosions would have been similar had they both involved the forward magazine groups. In Arizona there was much more structure above the magazines forward. In Hood the after magazines had less structure above them because, like Arizona, she was not flush decked. This meant it was e...

Really? you're claiming that its impossible to bypass the ammo interlocks? Have you ever heard of the basics of "Nothing can truly be fool proof because fools are so ingenious?" Furthermore, if you have access to this 15 inch thick book, then why didn't you provide some links or excerpts o...

I read William Jurens "Loss of HMS Hood" for the umpteenth time. Bear with me as I compare this to the loss of Arizona, who was about the same age, and also suffered a critical magazine hit. One thing about Hood strikes me as suspicious. The X turret was flung into the air at the time of h...

anything from 8 inch all the way up to 14 inches in caliber. or 203mm - 350mm

Ultimately, for all the speculation that surrounds just who fired the fatal shot, all we know is that both ships engaged Hood, and that she blew up and sank. Is it possible that an AP round was loaded and fired in spite of the log reports? I think its possible, in the heat of combat. But even then, ...

Unfortunately it all comes back to the CFM rate of the engine, and while I can make some educated guesses and follow up on lots of theory, in the end, the only way I feel I'm getting this engine done right is with a trip to a flow bench, and talking with people who live and breathe ECM tuning. But i...

The machine shop I'm working with, which specializes in Industrial stationary motors, and myself really had a long and in depth discussion, and it was a mutual conclusion that that since I don't intend for the car to be a garage queen, and not expecting to exceed 500 HP (I'll be happy with 350) the ...

Actually, ALL of the Turbo Buicks cranks are non twisted forgings with rolled fillets on the crankpins. If you own a turbo buick, and it doesn't have a forged crank, its not original, and probably not safe to drive. I much prefer a MAF setup for the fuel injection, especially since I want the car to...

Proud owner of a 1984 Buick Regal T-Type, powered by the Buick LM9 OHV Turbocharged 3.8L Even Fire V6 with Sequential Fuel Injection, 200-4R Transmission, a 3.42 Posi-traction Rear end, and sitting on 15x7 rims wrapped with 215/65R15 skins. I inspected her before buying, as I was looking for a proje...

In the case of the Falklands it may be the case that the urgency in planting mines - considering that the Argentines had not expected a military counterstroke from Britain - led to a lack of proper mapping, especially when you consider that large stretches of the islands have zero population and th...