Not your mistake, but that of a single Kirishima officer who made the statement for the USSBS and was promptly quoted by everybody in the West.
Sparviero was more a catapult ship than a genuine carrier. Her air group would have consisted of little Ro.63 planes for ASW duty.
Yes, they waited far too long. They share a common issue with the Germans, an overly powerful (politically) air force.
Kirishima was not scuttled. I have yet to hear any explanation for PE sinking Hood that rates above the fantastical.
I think Scheer accounted for a total of eighteen ships.
The Graf Zeppelin design was one of the most comically mishandled projects of the period. I guess it's not surprising, since the Germans were...
I suppose the mistake has its origins in the superficial resemblance of the two designs. Cuniberti blew his chance to be a part of the Russian...
Montana was the most powerful design among those that almost became a reality. A major step beyond Yamato.
The Soviets got Cesare from Italy and renamed her Novorosiisk. Not related to the Sevastopols. She didn't last long, capsizing after she struck an...
Bismarck and Tirpitz were not H-38. They were F and G. H was laid down, but little progress was made. The last variant that had any chance of...
Bismarck and Hood were about the same tonnage, depending on how you calculate it. Who's next among the warships, Fuso and Yamashiro?
There's a chapter on the Soviet submarine effort in here: Sadkovich, James J. (ed.) Reevaluating Major Naval Combatants of World War II. Greenwood...
Pinguin accounted for 26 ships. Is that the most for a surface vessel? Among warships, what was Scharnhorst's total?
Smoke--I hadn't thought of that. You're right, it's all guesswork at this point.
I shudder to think what a BMB-1 launch would do the hull of a G-5.
I can only guess. I don't know how the torpedoes were released or loaded, but I'd guess thay have something to do with that. Various series of...
Those are not depth charges. See the drawing on the linked page.
She served as an aircraft ferry after the Torch landings. She was given a refit in the US--I think they finally removed her torpedoe tubes...
No. If you tried to roll depth charges from there, they'd plunk down into the torpedo troughs, which would be poor for morale.
As you can see, the Soviet boat continues to lack torpedo tubes, just like the CMB. Perhaps the biggest difference is in the hull construction--I...
