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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP07 Apr 2022 4:40 p.m. PST

"Whether it's due to treaty restrictions, resource limitations, or just bad engineering, the annals of naval history have no shortage of eyebrow-raising ship designs…."


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Armand

Andrew Walters08 Apr 2022 10:55 a.m. PST

I love that page. Using it for research for a project, actually. Fingers crossed. Definitely worth a read.

Pontius08 Apr 2022 12:39 p.m. PST

Glad to see that the Novgorod was first on the list.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP08 Apr 2022 3:15 p.m. PST

Happy for that…

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Bozkashi Jones19 Apr 2022 10:41 a.m. PST

My favourite Habbakuk story is of the demonstration to the top brass of the qualities of pykrete. To show it's strength, the attache – Lord Louis Mountbatten, no less – drew his service revolver and fired into a block of the stuff. The shot ricocheted and hit the US Admiral Ernest King in the leg.

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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP19 Apr 2022 3:17 p.m. PST

(smile)

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JoLeCaliPout16 May 2023 10:32 a.m. PST

Among the strange ideas for American pre-dreadnoughts were the Kearsarge, and even stranger the repeated design of the Virginias, carrying a co-rotating 8" twin guns above their main turrets. Having two different caiibers certainly doesn't make fire control easy, especially back before computers to calculate range.

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