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Truth is meaningless when access to it is controlled and manipulated.

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But there is another consideration here, being the obvious reluctance of the Germans to engage RN capital ships. Given 2 to 1 superiority in numbers and the risk of the Germans attempting to disengage quickly or as soon as they could the scenario would suggest a rapid approach to close the range qu...

I think that it really was a huge 0.4 seconds for the Japanese Type 91 shells (the Type 13 mark 5 fuze is described on page 17 of the USN Technical Mission to Japan Report O-17 http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ-200E-0240-0319%20Report%200-17...

I think the quoted fuze delay time is off by a decimal place. Should read as .040 seconds, which @450 m/s striking velocity = about 18 meters (60 ft).

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Most likely goal of the Leftist climate kabuki - outright control of the world energy market.

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..... Don't discount the effect of atmospheric shock wave alone. There were cases in the age of sail of untouched men being killed by the close passage of a heavy smoothbore shot. Such a shot would have been travelling in the 1000 - 1400 ft/sec range. As to the question of singed flesh, etc, I can o...

... All the claims have been disproved in more recent analysis, IIRC... Japanese records are notoriously overstated. So every claim, huh? I'd like to see the sources for these refuted claims, if you would. Because frankly, this sounds like standard issue Ameriburger butthurt. Can't stand having the...

Dave, Great post! I am very interested in German naval FC of all types, but I've just about forgotten all my meger ability in German. Are there any English translations on this subject? A soviet report from 1964 but lot of the technology described is german Accession Number : AD0607565 Title : NAVA...

..... One problem here is that no two timepieces can be assumed to have been perfectly calibrated to one another - certainly not among different ships and usually not even aboard the same ship.

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If it is allowed that the flagship DID put her helm over to port, as intended, it is not necessarily disallowed that she could have done so, only JUST BEFORE the disastrous explosion which ended her. This isn't, by the way, an attempt to divert from the recent, remarkable exchanges --I think Paul (...

I have a 1954 first edition copy of Volume 1, with a somewhat tatty and stained dust jacket but a solid binding. Maybe we can do a trade of some sort. PM me.

Byron

Santarini's analysis cites a pair of two point turns to port by Holland, the first ordered at approx 5:55am and the second at approx 5:59am. Santarini is of the opinion that, at the time Hood was fatally hit, both Hood and PoW were in process of executing the second turn and had passed through about...

..... At the risk of further complicating affairs, Santarini's new book on Hood/Bismarck (which I have only just received) offers an interesting view re PoW's maneuvering at the crucial moment of the battle. The author argues that PoW made three turns: [a] an initial turn to port conforming to Hood'...

Next topic ..... Tirpitz versus the Montana Class.
Future topic ..... Tirpitz versus Federation Starship Enterprise
Topic in preparation ..... Tirpitz versus the Red Army + Rocky Balboa.

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Hi Byron, it looks to me exactly the same close minded approach (as you say) when I see somebody refusing the evidences provided by Antonio Bonomi on what happened and what was done after May 24 to provide a different version of facts..... but it's a matter of viewpoints, I imagine..... :D Re. the ...