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Yes, Karl, I know about Moskva and Leningrad, but they were not conventional aircraft capable!!! And those that were, only see the light in the 80´s. Besides, what I envision, is a force of about 10 carriers by the late 60´s.

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Thanks for all the answers guys. But there is one think that continues to strike me: if Argentina (which had far fewer reasons to have a carrier force) managed to get two carriers and developed Naval aviation, the Soviet Union must have built a carrier force, at least for the case that things demost...

I was wandering why the Soviet Navy didn´t get interested in carriers until recently, and even then in a very small scale compared with the US. The Argentine Navy received two carriers in the 60´s and managed to develop a small carrier force, so I must assume that it wasn´t for luck of experience th...

I think that Hi-speed steel (steel alloyed with tungsten, the hardest of them all, mostly used in cutting tools) is around 9.

Well, you may not know that the Argentina air support was poor because of the distance: the aircraft operating from the continent had just enough fuel to fly to the islands, do the job and come back, no more time to stay on station to provide air cover.

Hi Robert: The Belgrano was in her way back from the islands when she was sunk. She was sent to the south of the islands along with her escorts, in combination with a force sent to the north of them (composed mainly by the carrier) to engage a British force that was shelling Puerto Argentino/Port St...

I don´t agree with that Robert: shells use to fail to explode, but I think it is a rare ocurrence (if it ever happened) for them to explode when they are not intended to. For example I know many cases of unexploded aircraft bombs, but none that exploded during the freefall.

Agreed, unless retrofitted with Exocet missiles as the Gearing-Allen M. Sumner ex-USN destroyers were.

I don´t know when the Belfast was retired, but I think that by 1982 it would have taken a big effort to put her on the move, while the Belgrano had been going since WWII. But as I said the Belgrano was in bad shape, the machinery was OK for just 18 kn. Regarding the training, by 1982 the Argentine f...

I think that there is a number rounding issue here: a 1 foot square 1 inch thick plate doesn´t weight exactly 40 pounds, but 40.85 pounds, taking a metric density of 7.86 for the steel. So a plate 1 foot square which WEIGHTS 40 pounds, is not 1 inch thick but a little less, 25 mm for the same densit...

Search in bookfnder Robert, there are 12 copies, but the price is outrageous.

and since it´s quite a tourist attraction

I must said that the Arenal is one of the most beautiful places in Costa Rica. It is amazing that so much beauty can cause so much damage....much like a battleship.

I mean spaceship Yamato....

Moreover, the BB would need to be named Yamato....

Hi Robert:

In Mar del Plata, located on the Atlantic coast, 400 km south of Buenos Aires, the ashes have already arrived. In Chile two towns near the volcano have been evacuated.