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- Sun May 27, 2007 12:14 am
- Forum: Naval History in General
- Topic: Admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho) treasure ship design
- Replies: 47
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water-tight compartments (also for keeping live fish and for bathing), and triple rudders. Large models in museums, and also sold as a kit by Trumpeter, give dimensions that are bizarre; at 1:1250, the model would come out to approximately 12 cm LOA, 12 cm keel to truck, and a beam of 4.9 cm! There...
- Sat May 26, 2007 11:14 pm
- Forum: Naval History Post-1945
- Topic: May 25 1982
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27263
Yes, I heard that many times, but I am not sure, in fact I think nobody can say that for sure. The Exocet sustainer burns for 150 s (see http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/exocet.htm), so that at a speed of 300 m/s means that it will be totally depleted after 45km. I don´t know the exact...
- Fri May 25, 2007 3:16 pm
- Forum: Naval History Post-1945
- Topic: May 25 1982
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27263
Thanks Robert. As usual I am surprised by your knowledge of Latin America, I hope someday you pay a visit to us. The Falklands/Malvinas war is almost forgotten here, the only day remembered is April 2dn, the landing itself. I believe that today the Atlantic Conveyor was sunk too, in the same attack ...
- Fri May 25, 2007 3:04 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Ships shooting themselves
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6899
- Thu May 24, 2007 9:50 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Ships shooting themselves
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6899
- Thu May 24, 2007 9:46 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Ships shooting themselves
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6899
Normally bullets or shells are fired on a linear trajectory, they won't do a complete circle so you get shot by your own bullet in the back of your head.... Every bullet is fired in a linear trajectory, even the round-the-corner weapon. The difference is that the trajectory line in this case is at ...
- Thu May 24, 2007 4:36 pm
- Forum: World Navies Today
- Topic: Ranking European best navies today
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11774
And that´s the lack that the rest of Europe today has. How do you expect the Germans to sink Belgrano or the French to land in the Falklands if they were not able to stop genocide in Kosovo? Serbia was their backyard and they did nothing at all! There was not will of stopping the killings there, be...
- Thu May 24, 2007 4:33 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck armed with 11-inch guns
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10686
- Thu May 24, 2007 3:33 pm
- Forum: Naval History in General
- Topic: Admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho) treasure ship design
- Replies: 47
- Views: 78227
- Wed May 23, 2007 3:35 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: KG 5 class underestimated?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 44963
- Tue May 22, 2007 11:18 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: KG 5 class underestimated?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 44963
- Tue May 22, 2007 3:23 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: KG 5 class underestimated?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 44963
- Tue May 22, 2007 12:54 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: KG 5 class underestimated?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 44963
Hood and Bismarck date from different eras and their technology is vastly different. Yes, but the Germans designers stayed with a 3 shaft configuration, which limited the power output against a 4 shaft ship. All in all, a 4 shaft would at most have added 2 knots, at the price of protection. My conc...
- Mon May 21, 2007 12:33 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: KG 5 class underestimated?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 44963
BS made 28.34 knots at 117,400 SHP at 75% load (maybe 48.5k tons) Hood made 28.4 knots at 112,480 SHP at 44.6k tons BS was heavier in the test and shorter, and they made the same speed with less than 5000 hp difference. I still don´t see the penalty of the beamier hull. Hood made 31.88 knots at 152...
- Mon May 21, 2007 3:28 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: KG 5 class underestimated?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 44963
Beam influence in resistance
28.3 knots at 115k SHP for Bismarck To illustrate my previous quoting of D.K. Brown, I offer the followig data. BS is 36 m wide, Hood is 31.7. BS made 28.3 kt at 115000 hp (collected by someone in this thread), Hood made 28.4 kt at 112480 hp (from AOTS Hood). So where is the big disadvantage in bei...