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we (americans) spend 711 billion a year on defense, the highest in the world, the number 2 slot goes to britain at 68 billion. I don't understand why we spend almost as much of the worlds defense budget combined. before you start telling me its because we are fighting two wars, iraq costs 10 billio...

what about this one: some BB called Bismarck did scored an early hit on a British BC that had been shooting at her with time advantage and sent her to the bottom of the sea? I thought that it was a well known fact that the Hood was firing at the wrong ship, as has been pointed out time and again on...

Why do you think that a President Obama would be assassinated? US Presidents are much more heavily protected than in 1963. Because he is black and we have some real crazies here, that's all. I hope I'm wrong. Why is there this obssession with Obama being black? Look at Obama closely. His skin colou...

Why do you think that a President Obama would be assassinated? US Presidents are much more heavily protected than in 1963. Because he is black and we have some real crazies here, that's all. I hope I'm wrong. Sadly I think his skin colour may affect the way some people vote, and as good as protecti...

It may be down to marketing choices, if the BBC try to sell it abroad, especially the US they are most likely to pick the more attractive and less roll poly actors.

I watched some of the first series, there on the second now I think if it is not finished allready. I am very, very poor on the history of our monarchy but I did find it enjoyable. It gave me the impression of a child stamping there feet to get there way, although a rather power hungry and devious o...

The fact that with this Plan Z he tried to create a "balance of power" with the RN. This though was not accomblished because the war started too early for Raeder. Did Reader think that the RN would allow the Germans to achieve parity in the first place? I am pretty sure that once all thes...

had it not been for the cordite do you think the same ships would have been sunk?

why was the gunnery of the RN Battlecruisers so abd by the way?

was it a technological thing, or more to do with the conditions on the day.

At Dogger Bank when the Lion lost speed Beattys signal was misinterpreted and instead of pursueing the rest of the German Battlecruisers they concentrated on the Blucher. The performance of the RN shells was very poor, Im sure Campbell points out that even the 15in shells from the 5th Battle Squadro...

Vic Can you imagine the cheering and flag waving accompanying the towing-in of the wrecked Bismarck? Churchill would have been crowing until D-Day and beyond about what his ships had done to the pride of the German Navy. very true but this would remind the public that the Hood was at the bottom of t...

Hi Vic Why would the Royal Navy want to take Bismarck as a prize considering his state? The conclusion of all this, has to be that gunfire could not sink a ship of the Bismarck's characteristics, even though she could be defeated by gunfire and torpedoes would not sink They said the Titanic was unsi...

lwd wrote:Wasn't one of the ships based at or commonly found at the space station (I'm blanking on the name) a combat focused design. I thought I remembered it having almost as much fire power as Enterprise and a crew of 10-20.

that will be the "Defiant" from Deep Space 9 I think

the hull of the Makenson would most likey be better subdivided but she did have torpedo tubes under the waterline which nearly always cause problems

Hood, in comparison with Indefatigable, Queen Mary or Invincible looks like a full armoured Battleship. The Mackensen could be better than the British counterparts but was no better than Hood. Can this be said so replacing Hood by Repulse? MacKensen vs. Repulse? Best regards... Karl Repulse doesnt ...

Mackensen's deck armor is significantly worse than Hood's. Ouch. I thought that the German ships were generally better armoured than there British counerparts, I assume that in their bid to match the gunpower of the newer Britsh ships they had to sacrafice armour as the gunmounts etc would be heavi...