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There were a few large-caliber hits identified. The exact caliber is not known. None of these are confirmed as non-penetrative, and most are confirmed as penetrations. where would I be able to find the best detailed acount of the wreck itself? Is there a book/documentary you could recommend that I ...

There is no evidence that Bismarck's belt defeated any 14in shells. I have not seen much of the wreck pictures but how much of the belt is actually visible? I know there was supposed to be 2 16in hits penetrated and another partial. I would assume that a hit from a 14in that did not penetrate would...

So even if the did hit they would have passed through water first whitch would take a good bit of the striking velocity off along with the strike angle being affected

Hello boys and girls I know I am what you people would call a lurker on here but I was hopeing someone could help. When reading a post put up by Jose(sorry dont know how to get the little mark above the e) about the armour penetration of the Bismarcks 15in guns there was a link that gave tables for ...

lwd wrote:DDs and MTBs were expected to fight BBs but didn't have as much armor as a BC. They may not have been intended to fight them one on one but that's another matter.

Thats the point, Battlecruisers were not designed to take on Battleships one-on-one.

Tiornu wrote:Battlecruisers were always intended to fight against battleships. Historically, it's worked out pretty evenly. One battlecruiser was sunk by a battleship, and one battleship was sunk by a battlecruiser.

No they werent.

otherwise they would have been armoured enough to do so.

I would have thought that one of the biggest problems with the tigers(either 1 or 2) was the amount of time taken to build them. But this was the case with a lot of German weapons, particulary so with the KM. I would cite the Graf Zeppelin as a case in point, but the KM suffered slow output of all ...

Legend wrote:BC's were good against other BC's, but were getting lucky to survive against a BB, especially in a one on one.

Initially I dont think they were ever intended to take on BB`s, more to be used as scouts for the fleet.

HMS Devastation

I would have thought that one of the biggest problems with the tigers(either 1 or 2) was the amount of time taken to build them. True they were better than what the allies had when compared to the shermans but they were complicated beasts and required a lot of maintanence. Even driving one of these ...

Karl I went to see this a couple of weeks ago with the other half and enjoyed it. The only thing is in my eyes it wasnt a Bond film as such! No "Q" and his funky gadgets or cheesy one liners, felt more like any spy film but you must admit Craig does come over as extremely hard. It may be d...

To all

especially Karl and Vic.

It would seem that this weekend I discovered what a very large dose of Vodka and a bit to much nationalistic pride can do to me.

Apologies

Douglas

Is it really any surprise that a new Battleship "fully worked up" and new Heavy Cruiser"fully worked up" could take out a 20 year old Battlecruiser and a brand new Battleship"not worked up" out? and by the way at the start of the DS wasnt it 8*15 + 8*8 v 4*15 + 6*14? al...

And, for the last, the balance in battleships: 1 Bismarck Class BB In order to sink it you need: KGV + Rodney + Sheffield + Dorsetshire + Ark Royal + many destroyers, etc. etc. etc. Shall I continue? Karl, you forgot to add 1 "inferior" POW with 1 "inferior" 14in hit to screw up...

I think there are only 3 survivors from WW1 in the UK today.