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by marcelo_malara
Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:35 pm
Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
Topic: Falklands/Malvinas war naval scenario
Replies: 42
Views: 9201

Falklands/Malvinas war naval scenario

As you may know, this month it is 26 years of the South Atlantic war. In the local forums have been a lot of activity around it, and I imagined this scenario: On May 21st an English force landed on the Falkland Sound. The sound is 10 nm wide and about 25 nm long in its northern part, separated from ...
by marcelo_malara
Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:48 pm
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: RMS Titanic´s anniversary
Replies: 29
Views: 12643

Re: RMS Titanic´s anniversary

Hi Karl, good to see you too. As I remember, nobody actually saw the stern rupturing, the ship´s lights were already gone, and a few (crew mainly) said the ship went down in one piece. That was the prevailing idea prior to Ballard´s finding. Then after finding the ship broken and reassesing the evid...
by marcelo_malara
Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:10 pm
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: RMS Titanic´s anniversary
Replies: 29
Views: 12643

Re: RMS Titanic´s anniversary

Hi guys: I want to add some comentaries as found in Garzke´s Titanic ships titanic disasters: -It is nonsense trying to hit the iceberg head-on. They had no way of knowing if the ship would avoid the iceberg or would strike it, so that if every time a ship is in a similar danger the crew would aim f...
by marcelo_malara
Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Interesting Bomber Data Outcome...
Replies: 13
Views: 3346

I don´t agree with that. B-1 is far more advanced than B-52, even in its low cost version. I believe B-52 has no low level capability.
by marcelo_malara
Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:58 am
Forum: Naval Weapons
Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
Replies: 49
Views: 24624

Thanks Erich.
by marcelo_malara
Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:16 am
Forum: Naval Weapons
Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
Replies: 49
Views: 24624

Am still looking for a reported total of Allied and Soviet shipping sunk by the LW during the war broken down by years.
Erich, do you mean that the records doesn´t exist?
by marcelo_malara
Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:50 pm
Forum: Naval Weapons
Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
Replies: 49
Views: 24624

Dave, so I am right to believe that if the torpedo/bombers had been owned by the Kriegsmarine greater success would have been atained due to the simple fact that they wouldn´t have been sent to land theaters?

Do you have the exact figure (ships or tonage) sunk by the Luftwaffe?
by marcelo_malara
Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:55 pm
Forum: Naval Weapons
Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
Replies: 49
Views: 24624

Thanks Dave.

Do you know the tonage sunk by them?

Do you (or anyone) think that if the role had been asigned to the Kriegsmarine more resources and importance would have been allocated to the role?
by marcelo_malara
Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:15 pm
Forum: Naval Weapons
Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
Replies: 49
Views: 24624

Luftwaffe´s torpedo planes

Hi all:

Anybody knows which planes the Luftwaffe managed to use as torpedo planes? How many ships did they take with them?

Thanks in advance

Regards to all
by marcelo_malara
Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:11 am
Forum: Naval Propulsion
Topic: Variable pitch propellers
Replies: 10
Views: 14461

Wow, it seems that new people in the forum is bringing back old topics from the dead!!!! Welcome to the forum and thanks for your answer. Are you sure they hadn´t been used before?

KIng regards
by marcelo_malara
Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:14 am
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: Th story of the Hood and the Bismarck is 'cool' and 'awesome
Replies: 44
Views: 13262

The "cool" part is that every effort to review history helps make sure that the people who died in the dirty and nasty businness is remembered, they should not be forgotten.
by marcelo_malara
Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:55 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Static Stability Curve of Bismark
Replies: 5
Views: 2924

Martin:

The stability curve basically shows how much the ship can heel before capsizing.
by marcelo_malara
Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:09 pm
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: Battleship Top Ten
Replies: 626
Views: 128817

"Powerfull" should be a combination of:

Number of guns

Shell weight

Shell velocity

Rate of fire

Range

Accuracy

The problem is weighing the relative merits of each item...
by marcelo_malara
Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:18 pm
Forum: Books and Reference
Topic: Wanted: AJ Press Bismarck Tirpitz books 15, 16, 17
Replies: 2
Views: 2393

by marcelo_malara
Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:10 pm
Forum: Naval Technology
Topic: Watertight bulkheads and decks
Replies: 10
Views: 4760

Windows in watertight spaces? You mean port holes? Anyway, did the USN used them?