Well by all reasoning Kirishima shouldn't have had a chance against South Dakota at 2nd Guadalacanal but for Washington coming into save the day...
Good god why can't people do their own research???? The German themselves agreed the 35k limit applied to them and yes even before their 1937...
Here's a good discussion right here ,you might also read a few pages before the one I linked to...You might also want to look at section 2g more...
The escalator clause comes under 2nd London not WNT or the First London Treaty. The 2nd London was signed in March,1936 and as I've pointed out...
Then read it again is all I can say. The "Future agreement" part pertains to the ratios. The previous relevant part says "that divide naval...
The following was written by a friend over on warships1.com. Now to be fair it uses an older form of facehard and that program has been attacked...
No the Bismarck was laid down on July 1,1936 & the Tirpitz on October 1,1936 . In fact both the Washington & London Naval Treaties didn't expire...
Yes Germany was bound by the 35K limit since the Anglo-German Naval Treaty restricted Germany to the same treaties that the UK was forced to...
I posted an article by Richard Dunn in the same thread on the same forum that Takao linked to.Spitfires vs Zeros; the Darwin debacle - Page 7 -...
You post ever there??? What name do you go by????/ Anyways myself I feel like it was more that the 202nd Kentai was a very,very crack outfit more...
May I ask where that info comes from??? Just wondering never heard of their engines siezing up.
Be carefuk guys remember some considered the Spitfire V be quite superior to the Zero and look what happened over Darwin. I realise there might...
How hard would it have been for Nagumo to launch a 3rd strike on the 7th???? I've seen this debated quite a few times on other forums.
The UK/CW also outproduced Germany in AFV's and then when you figure Armored Cars,Brens ,SP's and trucks the British/CW advantage is even more.
per Lundstrom some USN pilots didn't want to go from the F4F-3 to F4F-4 simply because they felt the -3 was just about equal in speed & climb to...
Actually it seems the USN managed to match the Zero with it's F4F's even before the discovery of Koga's Zero. The Thach Weave is brandied about...
I'm thinking that was an estimation not an actual attained speed. It was discussed over on J-Aircraft.com a couple of years ago. I remember...
In another forum I found out that this authr,probably the far most expert in the field of development of US armor has passed away. His books...
and here's a discussion over on J-aircraft.com pertaining to Darwin Zero versus Spitfire V... and in this thread over on The Great Planes...
In other words actual losses by the 5th AF and what they claimed . Was there any post war analysis of both AF's records??? I'm providing some...
