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by RF
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Books and Reference
Topic: Corsair in the War Zone
Replies: 10
Views: 2171

Re: Corsair in the War Zone

Shades of Seeadler here....
by RF
Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:19 am
Forum: Announcements, News and Updates
Topic: Presentation
Replies: 18
Views: 37912

Re: Presentation

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! I'm Francisco from Montevideo, Uruguay. I first discovered this website in 2001, when I got my first PC, and learned a lot. Since then, every once in a while I visit the site and even the Forum, but for some reason never created an account. Anyway, glad to be here. Wel...
by RF
Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:18 am
Forum: Announcements, News and Updates
Topic: Presentation
Replies: 18
Views: 37912

Re: Presentation

Happy New Year to you too and welcome to the forum.
by RF
Tue Dec 19, 2023 6:07 pm
Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
Topic: How might China attack Taiwan
Replies: 3
Views: 7924

Re: How might China attack Taiwan

My approach to this is could China successfully invade Taiwan with sea borne assault? It has been intimated through CIA sources that the possibility of failure is the biggest deterrent to China starting a war. Taiwan is much more heavily armed than Ukraine was before the Russian invasion, or even th...
by RF
Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:50 pm
Forum: Naval Weapons
Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
Replies: 49
Views: 24599

Re: Luftwaffe torpedo planes

My understanding is that the carriers were cancelled except for Graf Zeppelin, which had a constant stop-start mode. I would have thought that there would have been interest in developing aircraft for use on GZ, notwithstanding Goering's opposition to a naval air arm. Another aspect is that pre-war ...
by RF
Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:27 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Election of Javier Milei as Argentina's president
Replies: 3
Views: 6805

Re: Election of Javier Milei as Argentina's president

What interests me about this is the idea of using the US Dollar as the currency, as in the past this would have been seen as the country being dominated or owned by the United States as a ''gringo imperialism.'' Are these ideas now dead? Or could they re-surface over time, especially if the economy ...
by RF
Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:11 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Election of Javier Milei as Argentina's president
Replies: 3
Views: 6805

Election of Javier Milei as Argentina's president

I see that the BBC in Britain has reported that a ''far right'' candidate named Javier Milei has won the election to be Argentina's next president by an 11% margin. I'm not quite sure why the BBC describes him as ''far right'' except I suspect that they don't like his politics and that Trump has end...
by RF
Fri Oct 27, 2023 8:54 am
Forum: Movies, Films, Documentaries and Games
Topic: Battleship Command: Scharnhorst
Replies: 27
Views: 23665

Re: Battleship Command: Scharnhorst

Going somewhat off thread, the KM around 1939 was in communication with the Dutch Navy over a proposal to construct battlecruisers for the Dutch using a modified Scharnhorst design, there is I believe a previous thread here from over ten years ago on these battlecruisers. Consensus was that the desi...
by RF
Thu Oct 26, 2023 5:10 pm
Forum: World War II
Topic: German strategy: Middle East vs Russia
Replies: 6
Views: 10448

Re: German strategy: Middle East vs Russia

Thinking logically the best access and supply route from Europe to Iran/Iraq is across the Bosphorus through Turkey, which would also put Wehrmacht panzer divisions on Turkey and Irans border with Russia without having to go via Africa and Palestine. Now Turkey was neutral in WW2 - but in 1941 wide ...
by RF
Thu Oct 26, 2023 5:00 pm
Forum: Movies, Films, Documentaries and Games
Topic: Battleship Command: Scharnhorst
Replies: 27
Views: 23665

Re: Battleship Command: Scharnhorst

The height of the deck above the waterline looks very low, I presume this is an optical illusion as in anything other than a flat calm water is going to be sloshing on to the decks and the base of the turrets.......
by RF
Wed Sep 27, 2023 7:23 am
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: Ships sunk in port by aircraft attacks
Replies: 15
Views: 16659

Re: Ships sunk in port by aircraft attacks

And I guess no one wants to talk about the remnants of the Imperial Japanese Fleet stashed about various places in the Inland Sea in the summer 1945 . . . sitting ducks for TF-38 strikes, though they, the TF-38 staff, thought it a monumental waste of resources. At that time these ships had nowhere ...
by RF
Fri Sep 15, 2023 5:44 pm
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: Ships sunk in port by aircraft attacks
Replies: 15
Views: 16659

Re: Ships sunk in port by aircraft attacks

Britain did have the radar system early on in Britain but the short range to Nazi occupied Europe and the wealth of targets in Britain made it a little less useful as far as defending ships in port vs air attacks. I don't entirely agree. Ports such as Liverpool and Glasgow were given warning of imp...
by RF
Thu Sep 14, 2023 6:08 pm
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: Ships sunk in port by aircraft attacks
Replies: 15
Views: 16659

Re: Ships sunk in port by aircraft attacks

PH was attacked with radar switched on - the Jap planes were tracked in, the radar operators reported the contacts to their controllers who told them to ''forget it.''

Radar is only any good if people not only use it but act on it - which gave Britain a big advantage in the summer of 1940.
by RF
Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:25 pm
Forum: The Dreadnought Era (1906-1921)
Topic: The surrender of the High Seas Fleet remembered
Replies: 16
Views: 27877

Re: The surrender of the High Seas Fleet remembered

If the RN or the British Government simply ''wanted rid of the ships'' it would have been far more lucrative to have them broken up in shipyards and the scrap steel sold off - countless thousands of tons of it! Or - simply sell them off to the highest bidder, or at least the highest acceptable bidde...
by RF
Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:27 am
Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
Topic: Scharnhorst vs Alaska
Replies: 34
Views: 10134

Re: Scharnhorst vs Alaska

The Germans always considered it a battleship. This I think is more propaganda than reality, much the same as the pocket battleships were described as ''armoured cruisers.'' The River Plate battle demonstrated that Graf Spee was not an armoured ship as it suffered considerable damage from six inch ...