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Chemical lasers, perhapes even condensing the beam by slowing it. Light has been slowed to about the speed of a bycicle in the labs. When released, would it continue at that speed or go back to its origional. If you could slow a 1 second beam, and release it in far less time, would you have convert...

Absolutely true, but being successful in battle alone does not make a ship successful overall IMO. First and foremost a ship is a ship. The sea is the real enemy and every time you go to sea you are risking your life, if your ship for whatever reason can't bring you back to shore safely it has faile...

To quote General Patton; "wars are not own by going out and dying for your country. They are won by making the other fellow go out and die for his country." The same applies to ships, wars are not won by going out and getting sunk.

HMS Delboy! Oh lol!

There are hundreds of ships throughout history that have done Stirling work and gone done fighting to the very end all over the world and from all maritime nations. I wouldn't classify them as successful vessels but that is my personal opinion and success or not is a personal interpretation.

I think 'successful' and unsuccessful' is a bit ambiguous and is open to a lot of personal interpretation, great for a lengthy thread. This is the way I would personally judge a warship as being successful. 1. The ship has to get its crew safely back to shore every time, therefore if its is sunk it ...

Satsuma had been used before, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Satsuma The other two names I can find no reference to. Japan has more provinces than it can hope to use as names for capital ships, so it uses only historically famous provinces. Satsuma was one of the starting regions f...

Probably the best post I've ever read. Brilliant. A lot of members could learn from this when they squirt out their stats and consider them gospel. An excellent first post and welcome to the club.

As for my vote for best warship name...

.... A ship that shall fear only God, and dread nought....

Hi again, there is a fantastic website out there on the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). You can find it at combinedfleet.com. As to your question, no, Japanese carriers were not normally named after provinces. The only exceptions were those ships originally laid down as battlecruiser, i.e., Akagi (he...

Could also go with the supermarine seafang, which was a contempory of the sea fury and bearcat and if anything slightly better, and would fit into ww2 rn carriers.

Lol, Nelson... It comes down to what makes an Admiral "Great". Those who have a desk job can influence the development and success of a naval policy far more than those at sea, can set up the general strategies and logistics for the future and make a real long-term impact. But if it comes...

Seetakt FuMO27 (1940) Range to BB: 30km Range to DD 16-20km Range accuracy: 50meters Bearing accuracy w/ Max Signal: 1-2* Bearing accuracy w/ S-Rad: 0.10* Resolution for range 50 meters Resolution for bearing 6* These stats are similar to mid 1950s era radars. And the Germans had it in 1940, yeah p...

From what info I can find Seetakt was actually a very mediocre radar. Seetakt: Range 8-25km. Range accuracy 70m ish. Bearing accuracy 3 deg. It also suffered from frequency drift but a good operator could minimize this problem. Type 271: Range 10-25nm. Range accuracy 150ft ish. Bearing accuracy 2 d...

Another problem of the British naval radars operating at meters wave length was sea clutter. The British centimetric surface search sets, or even centimetric firecontrol sets, did not have superior performance than the German Seetakt radars. What it did was give the British a surface search set tha...