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Scheer did the right thing, but I have always wondered why he turned back and put his head in the noose again? Probably a case of incomplete data about enemy dispositions, or just an error of judgement. Without repeating someone´s else´s findings here, Your suspect is correct. The explenation for t...

Why is it that GZ cannot be seen as a lone raider? What´s different to a Hipper or a Scheer, a Lützow or a Graf Spee, or -for that matter- a Thor, Stier or Atlantis auxilary cruiser? All these used their airplanes for recon purposes. Airplanes can spot shipping from a greater distance than these shi...

I guess You may also have a different perspective and say that because GZ was a single carrier it had better options to survive. Sending out a single raider posed strategically and tactically more problems to the one executing Sea-Controll strategies than the one doing raiding. Sending out a task fo...

Then this whole discussion just evolves around peoples opinions , which are culturaly centric. Westeners will just see it as impossible , but admit when pushed its possible ...but they would not be any good , what ever that means :? German centrics will just grin and say "bring it on". :w...

The Bf109T on the otherhand might have been on par with the Seafire, if lucky, and likely would have suffered from a similar appalling accident rate. Given that the Seafire didn´t enjoyed all the improvements in the STOL performance envelope forwarded to the Bf-109T: [+] increased wing area to lowe...

A few weeks ago, I run across the 1922 extension to the 1911 article of the Enzyclopedia Britannica about some tests conducted with armour plates taken from former HSF battleship SMS BADEN and subjected to metallurgical and ballistic trials on the prooving ground. Note these plate trials are not ide...

The problems to cause excessive dispersion of french 38cm quad mounts cannot be reduced to missing delay coils. Even with them added, the data´s proposed in Dumas book suggest that the dispersion is on the poor side in comparsion. Problems arised from many seperate problems, of which delay coils wer...

Salvo dispersion is basically meaningless in a battle between ships. It only really makes a difference when engaging a stationary target like a shore battery; there, any dispersion means most of your shells won't hit the target. Against ships, dispersion doesn't matter. At long ranges, your shells ...

The importance of speed has been overblown. A tactically useful edge in speed by ww1 period was 4 kts and everything less was to narrow to qualify a maneuvering speed advantage. This was for speeds in the low and mid 20kts´s and for ranges of 10,000 to 20,000 yard. In ww2 we have speeds of the high ...

@delcyros There are two complete speed/power curves (each for one ship), starting from 7.5 kts and 2000 SHP up to 30+ kts. On these curves are markings (puncture with a small circles) for the speed/power pairs of values of the trial runs. There are only the 0% and 100%-weights of Tirpitz. Compared ...

A great find, congratulations.

Do I have it to take that the document includes more speed figures than the top speed? If so -are there data´s aviable at lower speed, too?
And what is meant with 75% -a range in between 46,934 and 47,683ts, I guess?

@ Byron: This is correct. The Bf-109T received an inner wing filet section which increased the span to 11.08m. The picture above shows the Bf-109T frontally, not the -E, -F, or -G-derivates. @ Tiornu: Even with - it´s two years after the carrier was stopped and by this time they couldn´t make the ca...

The widening of the hull lines in front of turret 1 is a consequence of the pronounced shouler of the hull lines there. This feature can be found in SOUTH DAKOTA and NORTH CAROLINA class, too. It makes for good fast lines, allows stable platform charackteristics but greatly increases wetness. It is ...

I am not sure if I understand You. Let me expand my thoughts. You seem to be convinced that the Fi-167 wouldn´t be part of any airwing. I would like to know what makes You sure about this detail? Fieseler signed contracts to deliver them but stopped production after the preproduction models because ...

I do think that we have different data to base our conclusions on*. The compressed air reservoire of the DKW catapult was designed to allow launch of eighteen airplanes, specification called for 5 ts gross weight and 36m/s take off speed, thus requiring the aequivalent of 64,152 mt total power compr...