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Gentlemen, Thank you for your posts. It's interesting to see the latest development of Putin ordering the call-up of 300,000 reservists, of course no-one knows how long they have been 'out of the service' and what sort of condition they are in, (if the reports are correct there are many of them tryi...

Do you really think the Russian army we have watched fleeing in disorder from the Ukranian offensive, abandoning weapons, would make to to Calais? Hi Steve, Probably not! I understand Putin has mentioned the use of nuclear weapons again and Biden replied, "Just don't". I wonder how the to...

Hi Byron, I think you are right on that point, there seems to be some dissention between certain EU countries as what to do, Germany and two or three other countries appear to be reluctant to supply arms to Ukraine in case they fall out with Russia altogether - I cannot see what their problem is bea...

Gentlemen, To reopen our debate that finished around the end of March. It would appear that the recent situation has changed quite dramatically with Ukraine retaking a lot of ground, so I was wondering what your opinions are on Putin's next move? As we already know he has made vailed threats about h...

Gentlemen, I'm sure that I read somewhere that the AA crews om Bismarck had difficulty hitting the Swordfish because they had been trained by firing at faster moving drone targets and the aircraft were approaching them were travelling much at a slower speed and were dancing about in the strong winds...

Gentlemen, Re my last post regarding the wreck of Scharnhorst being found a number of years ago, does anyone know if any further visits have been made to the site? Also, re her moving at 10 knots I wonder if she was moving under power at all or just drifting rapidly in the gale? With regard to the t...

foeth wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 10:29 am A number of ships were found in the Donau (Danube)

https://www.newsweek.com/drought-europe ... er-1735263

Thanks for the link, but it doesn't say what kind of warships were revealed

Gentlemen,
An article in the paper stated that due to the current drought in Germany a number of sunken German warships were found in a river (the Rhine?), has anyone got any details of what ships they were?

Gentlemen,
Some years ago, the wreck of Scharnhorst was found, I believe she is upside down with her bow blown off, so I wonder if any particular details such as torpedo hits were taken when the wreck was investigated?

I believe that it was in the North Cape battle, rendering the Scharnhorst almost blind in the foul weather conditions just after her escorting destroyers had been sent off to search for the target convoy. Bismarck had its gunnery control position in the foretop taken out by an 8 inch shell from Nor...

Let us not forget that Bismarck was shot to bits at close range (admittedly by a combination of 14 &16" shells), but it was the 16" from Rodney that seemed to do most of the damage so imagine what 9 x18" are going to do to Tirpitz at close range! The comment about the relative ef...

Thanks Byron, I believe that after the BC disasters at Jutland the RN ordered another 5000 tons of armour to be added in Hood's construction, had she been at Jutland in her original form I think she may well have suffered the same fate as the others, particularly as you suggested, Beatty might well ...

Was just reading 'The Design and Construction of the Battleship Dreadnought' by DK Brown in Warship Vol 4, and at the end, he mentions that after the trias of the 1881 battleship Inflexible, there was a proposal to build a 4 twin 16 inch gunned turret version of the Inflexible--sort of a combinatio...

Was just reading 'The Design and Construction of the Battleship Dreadnought' by DK Brown in Warship Vol 4, and at the end, he mentions that after the trias of the 1881 battleship Inflexible, there was a proposal to build a 4 twin 16 inch gunned turret version of the Inflexible--sort of a combinatio...

Gentlemen,
I would think that trying to unload a heavy shell and cordite was likely to be a bit difficult and possibly hazardous. so when a battle was over did any guns that were still loaded get fired off, or did they try and unload them?