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  1. Alternate warships of nations

    Actually there are modern minelaying capable vessels also capable of ASW ans ASUW: Modern attack submarines, either diesel-electric, or nuclear powered. A submarine can easily do all these jobs pretty efficient and without the dangers a surface vessel will meet, being far too vissible by both...

  2. Alternate warships of nations

    Actually Renown was one of the more worn out ships in 1945, being refitted completely before the start of the war and not much else had been done appart from adding and removing equipment during the waryears. As such she was basically in a decommisioned reserve state before the war ended and...

  3. Alternate warships of nations

    Actually their large destroyers, or contre-torpilleurs, as well as their later interwar period cruisers were inovative and well respected abroad for their power. The first treaty cruisers and smaller destroyers (torpileurs d'escadre) were less well designed, but the French realy made a large...

  4. Alternate warships of nations

    Actually the 6 inch gun and its ammunition were around the largest to be manually operated and handled in normal conditions, Larger was simply too much and too heavy to be handled by manual power for any duration, seriously reducing its capabilities in a very short time due to fatigue of the gun...

  5. Alternate warships of nations

    Good looking does not always equals functionality, as the heavy large superstructure was a major cause of top heaviness on these ships, causing it not to be repeated in the next classes of cruisers (Mogami class and follow on), being replaced by smaller less tall structures. Besides that, the...

  6. Alternate warships of nations

    Is this realy worth a topic? The flightdeck naturally had to be tough enough to withstand the bouncing of aircraft landing on it, so making it a flimsy tissue paper thickness would cancel its usefulness as an aircraft carrier as such. USN wooden flightdecks as such were at least 6 inches thick...

  7. AHC/WI: USN built a class of cruiser-killers instead of a class of battlecruisers?

    My guess is you also want the Alaska fitted with weapons as well, as that figure is just the ship without fittings. "Because Alaska and Guam were the only two ships to mount these guns, only ten turrets were made during the war (three for each ship including Hawaii and one spare). They cost...

  8. AHC/WI: USN built a class of cruiser-killers instead of a class of battlecruisers?

    Any capital ship as such suggested would be eating its tonnage in the whole capital ship allocations anyway and reduce the battlefleetstrength of pure battleships, making it a very expensive way to weaken your own fleet for a seriously questionable purpose. Why not going for a "fast " battleship...

  9. AHC/WI: USN built a class of cruiser-killers instead of a class of battlecruisers?

    Sometimes smaller is better as smaller means more numbers available, just as the British requested more numereous ships, rather then a few larger more powerfull ones. Tactically a larger number can be an advantage as the single enemy wil be fored to split up its fire between the antagonist's...

  10. AHC/WI: USN built a class of cruiser-killers instead of a class of battlecruisers?

    What about the proposed "cruiser killer" design of the Cold War period to deal especially with the numereous Sverdlov Class cruisers of the USSR? Not a very impressive large ship, but a modest Destroyer sized vessel, with high capacity guns of standard destroyer size. If actually designed in...

  11. AHC/WI: USN built a class of cruiser-killers instead of a class of battlecruisers?

    The typical "Cruiser Killer" always had been a ship more or less designed with larger caliber than normal on a cruiser, with larger overall size, compared to a normal cruiser (to accommodate both the larger caliber guns and engines needed to propel the thing), coupled with a speed needed...

  12. Alternate warships of nations

    Actually the circular battleship design might better have been transformed into some sort of amusementpark attraction, as the odd thing was that once the main guns fired, the whole thing would start rotating on its centerpoint, like a merry-go-round.

  13. WI/AHC: Battleship equivalent of a "seventy-four"

    Actually this was not a good comparison, as the Battlecruiser as off shoot of the Dreadnought type battleship was not exactly a budget variant of the battleship, but rather the contrary. The 74 gun 3rd rate was the workhorse of the battlefleet in its days, just as the preceding 64 gunner was...

  14. Alternate warships of nations

    Technically a single heavyweight torpedo can do the job, if the detonation of the warhead is under the keel of the ship in question, in the propulsion area of the target. Normally the calculation is that two torpedoes will do the job most certainly, though one can be enough, if hitting where it...

  15. Scharnhorst joins Graf Spee at Montevideo

    Scharnhorst was not ready for service in september 1939 and was just activated for her first mission on november 21st 1939, meaning she had to cross all the way to the south Atlantic between this date and december 17th that year. This would have been an option in peacetime as the 26 days were...

  16. Alternate warships of nations

    In the early 20's that is correct, though after the mid 20's the name battlecruiser was removed and only used for ship already in existence, (HMS Hood, Renown, Repulse and Tiger) Ships from a later date, like the proposed G-3 would be commissioned in the late 20's at its earliest and...

  17. Alternate warships of nations

    There is a difference in design purpose here: The CVE in the IJN was always a conversion of an existing vessel, either commandeered by the navy from a private owner, of converted while under construction. The USN and Royal Navy CVE's too was based on an existing commercial design, though mostly...

  18. Germany wins WWI 1918: does it intervene to crush the Bolsheviks in Russia

    There is a lot of things depending on "HOW" the victory was achieved and especially at what costs. If Germany somehow is completely unaffected by war, they can just go on against whatever enemy. More likely the Great War, which drained severely on the German economy and human resources for four...

  19. Alternate warships of nations

    There were more such incidents as a decommissioned old Dreadnoughts of Brasil: São Paulo was lost simillary while in tow on the way to the breakers.

  20. Alternative/Extras to the Washington/London Naval Treaty

    Basically this alteration would not be acceptable to both UK and USA alike, as these navies would be required to scrap most of their existing fleets, in return for a very large number of new constructions, they were both unable, or unwilling to make postwar. Their interest was in retaining...
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