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After digitizing those books it really bothered me that with such sterling examples we still sent our guys into that area.

Byron Angel wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 1:07 am the mine-laying process was a very carefully conducted timed exercise. Maintaining correct orientation, pattern and interval spacing was important.

The enemy would certainly love predictable patterns, they would have to hunt so hard.

Yep.

And they did lay mines at 40 kt...? You lay mines in enemy waters. If you wish to dawdle while doing that be my guest, but leave me on the pier. Swarm in, lay mines, depart. While you're in range of the enemy coastal guns you're in danger. You have an unreasonably large amount of go-bangs for your ...

How about 40 knots? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdiel-class_minelayer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minelayer

The references may give you more information.

I digitized some British documents covering their adventures in the 'Stan back in the 1800s. Fascinating reading for those interested in deep background. https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/a/afghan-wars-1839-42-and-1878-80...

I manned the main spaces in carriers and smaller warships. They weren't simple. That tanker probably has diesel-electric drives, again not simple. IF the ship drifted out into the open ocean it might have made it to more clement climes. But the Gulf Stream would have driven it over to northern Europ...

bigjimslade wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 3:35 am I was cleaning the computer and came across an illustration I had made of the area shown in the photograph. Unfortunately, the board keeps giving me an unhelpful error when I try to upload.

C'est la guerre.

Use an image holding site, like imgur.com and link it from there?

There were any number of bridges in Europe that it couldn't cross without crashing the structure, so it couldn't easily pick its battlefield. An M1A2 could run rings around it. The M1's APSD rounds would brutalize it. Shall we go on?

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/3540-meters-record-breaking-longest-confirmed-sniper-kill-178421#:~:text=ISISIraqMilitary-,3%2C540%20Meters%3A%20The%20Record%2DBreaking%20Longest%20Confirmed%20Sniper%20Kill,distance%20of%20over%203%2C540%20meters. I remember reading about this - quite a fe...

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboo ... 0%20meters.

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/AirGunnery/index.html At one point the manual reminds the student that the .50 cal. is lethal at 4 miles. The kill zone for the .30 cal. is considerably shorter. (And yes, four miles would not be an aimed shot. I tried that once, got probables at one mile, no...

Where was John Ford when we needed him?

Dynamic situations aren't easily quantified.