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Agree with respect to both your cited cases.

Also, IIRC, for deployed anti-torpedo nets to be effective, the ship had to maintain a speed of not more than about 12 knots.

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Just for the record - the reason I took myself to the sideline is because I just grew tired of all the vitriol; I'll be 71 next month and don't need the stress. But I love the topic and would happily participate in a collegial adult setting. Whatever ever happened to - "We'll just have to agree...

OpanaPointer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 3:11 pmSatan?

Ask Patrick Moore.

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Goodbye, Mr Virtuani. I have had my fill.

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+1 RF.

The interests who seek to advance this "climate apocalypse" swindle are utterly despicable.

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"All of the criticised models are developed and documented in peer-reviewed scientific journals." ..... all of which are circulated within and "reviewed" by a carefully circumscribed academic echo-chamber whose members are reliant upon the same thoroughly politicized funding sour...

Regarding my "agenda" (funny to hear such a guy speaking of "agenda" when he has an evident one), I have none, except to admire courage and smartness on both sides , vs the RN fans who believe that all Axis officers are timid, cruel and stupid and all RN officers are courageous,...

Cannot comment about the psychology of D'Oyly-Hughes. But, from what I can glean from the internet regarding his service background and qualifications (submarines in WW1, learned to fly post-war but had no apparent experience or training in carrier operations) he certainly seems to have been a quest...

.... One must also take into account the raider's ability, once at sea, to disrupt merchant traffic patterns and convoy schedules and force the opponent to commit forces (which might be put to good use elsewhere) as convoy escorts or as response elements against possible raiding forays. Whether or ...

Hello RF, Thanks for staying on the thread subject, and avoiding becoming enmeshed in irrelevant, impotent rants about other threads : The experience with AGS in December 1939 is an even better one, as it would have heavily influenced the genesis of the orders referred to. It may have affected the ...

...."fog of war" or quantum physics ? :wink: Of course, each one's position should be entered in the thread where we were attempting to discuss the reconstruction: not here, but here http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8335&start=360#p81978 . I see nobody is willing...

Hello everybody, "Only a dour, authoritarian, charisma-free mediocrity like Lutjens would have accepted such ludicrously-specific constraints in the first place." A soldier must obey his explicit orders : " any engagement with forces of superior or even equal strength must be avoided...

While command aggressiveness is a fundamentally good characteristic, in my opinion, the strictures placed upon commerce raiding warships such as Scharnhorst and Gneisenau made a great deal of practical sense. I do not believe that the names conferred upon these two ships were coincidental - they wer...

Sorry to have been so long away. During wartime, the shells were fuzed and ready for use. Normally this would not have been a major safety issue as the fuzes had built in safety devices which prevented the shell from arming. A belated Happy New Year to you, Tommy - happy, healthy and prosperous. By...

Gentlemen, looking at old films of WWI RN battleships they all seem to have diagonal 'strakes' down each side, what were these for? Hi Paul, Re those "diagonal strakes", my guess is that you are referring to the numerous anti-torpedo net booms in their stowed positions along the sides of ...