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It is very hard to get the mass of the general public interested in her here in Australia. However we continue to grind away at it.
Ted

How many Dreadnought Battleships were sunk -entirely by gunfire- 1914-1945? If you leave aside Battle Cruisers with relatively thin deck armour, destroyed by magazine explosions, how many? Ted The answer is none - so we come back to the question of armour scheme and layout. Whatever the scheme it p...

RN N3 Battleship design was for four ships each 48,500 tons 820 feet long 106 foot beam 9 x 18 inch 16 x 6 inch 6 x 4.7 inch dp. Speed 23.5 knots. Armour 15 inch belt, 8 inch deck 15 inch turrets. Would have launched 1925 G3 Battle Cruisers (in fact Fast Battleships in armour) four ships each 48,000...

RN N3 Battleship design was for four ships each 48,500 tons 820 feet long 106 foot beam 9 x 18 inch 16 x 6 inch 6 x 4.7 inch dp. Speed 23.5 knots. Armour 15 inch belt, 8 inch deck 15 inch turrets. Would have launched 1925 G3 Battle Cruisers (in fact Fast Battleships in armour) four ships each 48,000...

Britain has only really lost one war between the End of the American War of Independence in 1782 and the present day, the First Anglo-Boer War of 1880-81, since Gladstone would not send reinforcements after Majuba.
Ted

Now here is an interesting one. No Washington Treaty, instead USA remains neutral in WWI and the War drags on into 1919 and only then ends in Allied Victory following the mass use of the Medium D Tank (which was the British plan for 1919). France and Germany are both exhausted. Britain finishes all ...

That's what makes these kind of scenarios interesting...
Ted

With hindsight, the best moves for the Germans would have been to have built up their Fleet only so far as they needed to to counter France and to have accepted a British Alliance, when it was on offer in the late 1890's. Had the German Kaiser had the wit to do that world history would probably hav...

I'm not a fan of the EU myself. It's origin, in my view, was a way of France to cuddle up to, rather than be defeated by, Germany: Not sure what advantage it holds for Britain. Britain, like almost all other nations, has cut its defenses since the collapse of the Soivet Union. On the other hand Brit...

Heavy German warships were always very difficult to sink by gunfire. Look at the huge punishment Hippers Scouting Force Battlecruisers took at Jutland inh 1916 (most of them were floating wrecks after the battle: But the point is floating). This had as much to do with the very extensive internal sub...

I think, as always, it would depend on Commanders, morale and a bit of luck...
Ted

That would give the Allies Two Battle ships and a Battle Cruiser with 14 15 inch and 10 14 inch guns, four Heavy Cruisers with 32 8 inch guns supported by eight Light Cruisers with approaching 50 6 inch , plus Destroyers thats a fair bit of Firepower...
Ted

All of the RN Battleships and Carriers, most of the Cruisers, all of the newer Destroyers, would have had Radar by late 1941.
Ted

hey another szenario a morelike Midway szenario, but in the Atlantic: the german graf zeppelin against the british ark royal and victorious i put two ships on the british side because the airplanes of the graf zeppelin were superior (Bf 109 vs Swordfishes) kk miro Firstly it depends when this hypot...

I lived in South Africa for eleven years. The Zulu were certainly very fine Warriors.
During the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War the Zulu won at Isandlwana, Intombi Drift and Hlobane. They lost at Inyezane, Rorke's Drift, Kambula, Gingindlouvo and Ulundi.