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400 Roman dead and 80,000 English dead

Well, that is what one may call good killing ratio...

What about Ypres?
Wasnt that where gas was used for the first time?

That was the first time mustard gas was used.

Karl, may be I have read that Verdun was fought because the Germans thought "there were too many soldiers in the front", and wasting them in battle was a way of getting rid of them? If that is truth, this is the bloodiest battle, fought to no strategic plan and nothing to be won from its l...

Hi all:

Somebody sent me this link: http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm

It is a list of military aviation movies, with some details on the stuff used. Look for Battle of Britain, is really amazing.

All those things you mentioned (and more) are done by a modern gun fire control system, but I agree it would be hard to destroy an Exocet with a 4.5" gun. But, if the gun was shooting at it and it exploded ... maybe they got lucky. Yes, Bgile, that was what I was trying to say. I believe in th...

Welcome to the forum Swordfish, I see you know the stuff of the campaign. the exocet was destroyed by 4.5-inch gun fire from HMS Avenger This is quiet strange. Do you think that a 4.5" gun can acomplish anti-missile duties? How would it be aimed? In the Phalanx system the radar continuosly trac...

I was under the impression that bombs dropped by dive bombers were always too low to reach terminal velocity. Is that correct, or am I in error?

You have to add the velocity of the launching plane, what would be somewhat about 150 m/s.

Yes, the Santa Fe. It was taken by helicopter-launched missiles AFAIK, may be Milan.

I don´t know her fate. Anyway, it was a GUPPI updated WWII US Navy sub, already obsolete then.

Hi Bgile: The supporters of the theory of the attack based their asumptions partly in the fact that the escort carrier HMS Dasher exploded in WWII and the British covered it well after the end of the war. Do you believe that the carrier could be lightly damaged and was repaired at sea, I mean changi...

No Mike, that is really nonsense, even here in Argentina is totally disregarded. No way of covering all the casualties caused by a sinking ship, or the silence of thousands sailors who saw it, or the workers that built it. Morever, building a new ship takes years...

Hi guys: I have been discussing here in a local forum the alleged attack on May 30th 1982 to the HMS Invincible. Argentine pilots claims that the carrier received one air-launched Exocet and two 250 kg bombs. The official British casualties list gives 3 deads on her crew, two pilots lost in a missio...

The old Leading Seaman i/c our mess, who’d been on her for the Falklands action

What action would be that?

Do I dare include J. Brower's "Anatomy of the Ship, The Battleship Bismarck"?

Not at all.

Anyway, I am still waiting for the answers...

Scheer to the Austrian Naval attache: "I had not definite object. I advanced because I thought I should help the Wiesbaden and because the situation was entirely obscure, since I received no wireless reports." (From Bennett´s The battle of Jutland).

Hi Karl:

From memory I think that he didn´t expect the British fleet still to be there, he believed that it had already moved to the South and that he could pass behind them.