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- Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:23 pm
- Forum: The Dreadnought Era (1906-1921)
- Topic: Jutland recurrent themes
- Replies: 51
- Views: 45381
One can say that the German Brandenburg class with four 28cm 40 cal and 2 28cm 35cal guns in three centre line turrets anticipated the all big gun battleships prior to Cuniberti's writings, as this class was laid down in 1890. Curious though, that the idea was never carried on in subsequent classes ...
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:04 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Battlecruiser definition?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15715
Fisher's idea of the battlecruiser was similar to his view on the all big gun battleship (dreadnoughts). Dreadnought when she went into service immediately made previous battleships pretty much obsolete, thereby giving Britain a technical edge over the competition, provided of course she could maint...
- Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:09 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: 15" Mark I and 38cm SK. C/34 naval guns
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13488
As something of an aside, at the end of the war there were a number of 38cm guns surviving in coastal installations, plus a great deal of related material at Krupps, including several test and proof guns. All one would need to find the official designation would be to look at the breech ring of any ...
- Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:51 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: 15" Mark I and 38cm SK. C/34 naval guns
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13488
German official designations for weapons were frequently haphazard and confusing, even to the Germans themselves. The actual nomenclature for a gun could be the year in which the official specification was issued to manufacturers for development of a new weapon (changes in specifications before the ...
- Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:54 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Questions about RDX and Torpex
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6674
I would imagine that the big savings Amatol would have made would have been in saving high quality alloy steel rather than saving TNT. High quality alloy steels were better used in armour plate production and for AP shot and shell. There is little reason to presume the Soviets were short of TNT or l...
- Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:57 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Questions about RDX and Torpex
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6674
- Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:41 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Questions about RDX and Torpex
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6674
RDX is one of those little military secrets which did not remain secret for very long. I am not aware of the exact extent to which the Soviets used RDX, but it was used in a number of smaller calibre AA shells and aircraft cannon, usually mixed with molten TNT which was cast into the shell, or mixed...
- Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:17 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: WWI Armor Quality
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1818
rather than launch into some long explanations, I would instead direct you to http://www.combinedfleet.com/metalprp2002.htm which has a very good overview of various armours from iron and wrought iron plating of the 1850s and 1860s through to the armours used in WK2. It is a helpful guide and starti...
- Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:55 am
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Lifeboats etc.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6091
- Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:40 am
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Questions about RDX and Torpex
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6674
RDX, which is the British acronym for Hexogen was discovered in about 1932 and by 1935 was also being produced in Germany by at least one plant, and during the war by another ten or so. It's early usage was hindered by its expense and its relative instability compared with other explosives such as T...
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:57 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40957
- Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:00 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Hoods rangefinder (instrument)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4224
Nellie, Rangefinders work on a principle of triangulation. The left prism is fixed at 90 degrees to the base of the rangefinder, while the right prism is movable so that when it is adjusted to intersect the line of sight of the left prism, a right triangle is formed, solving a trignometric formula a...
- Sat Jul 02, 2005 1:53 am
- Forum: Bismarck Crewmember Research
- Topic: Was there a Chaplain on the Bismarck?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11337
Hi Ulrich, In the Kriegsmarine, chaplins were Marinebeamten usually with officer status but not officer rank. However, any ordained minister, even if serving in the ranks, could perform the offices of his vocation as well. I am not aware of any chaplin assigned to the Bismarck, although I would not ...
- Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:17 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Sensitive question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6068
- Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:15 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Sensitive question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6068
Hacking is somewhat analagous to breaking the inigma code. Pretty much some chap or chaps has to figure out how to bypass all the safety and security measures on a site, then go in and mess up posts, plant dubious files, etc. I am not sure how its done, not being that computer literate. I do wish th...