Is it just typical wehraboo nonsense or is there something more. I kinda understand why the German army, airforce and submarine core get love but surface fleet was most effective as a deterrence then anything else

Back in the days of guns, even a few knots of speed could make a big difference. A 33 knot destroyer could run away from a 31 knot cruiser if it was able to spot it soon enough, escaping a fight it would almost never win.

But in the days of missiles and long range radar, is there a need to still be speed demons?

Lately I’ve been looking at modern large destroyer designs and some of the power output seems to be almost excessive. For example the Type 055 of the PLAN has been said to have 150,000 horsepower. For an 11,000-13,000 ton vessel as she is that shouldn’t just let her reach the 30 knots often stated but like the similarly sized and powered WW2 Japanese heavy cruisers up to maybe even 35 at full tilt.

But on the same side of the coin, one can look at the USS Long Beach. Over 15000 tons but with 80,000 horsepower was able to get to 30 knots, the speed of course requiring exponentially more each knot needed.

Is it really worth the extra expense, in weight, size, and the many monetary aspects of having a larger ship with more engines, for the very high speeds destroyers have? When their main role is to shoot missiles at things that are miles away?

The only thing I can think of as being the need for carrier escort in maintaining and getting back to position, but even that seems less of importance with the range of weapons and sensors.

What insight to y’all have?

Note: lower image is SK C/33 performing triaxial system.

I spotted these ships in the Indonesian navy docks in Sattahip. I’ve tried some research but does anyone know more about them? I’m interested to know.

Specifically I need help finding any pictures of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), USS Nevada (BB-36) and USS Arizona (BB-39) between August and December of 1941.

In October of 1941, Oklahoma and Arizona collided with each other and Nevada was in company with them. I can't find any pictures outside of the damage caused to Arizona. There's no way nobody thought to take any pictures when the ships entered pearl harbor after something like that

As most of us probably know, early US carriers were named after battles in the Revolutionary War (Lexington, Saratoga, Yorktown, Bunker Hill, Princeton, Cowpens, Valley Forge, Oriskany, Ticonderoga and Bonhomme Richard) but why wasn't there a USS Concord? To my knowledge there have been five ships named after Concord with the Omaha Class cruiser USS Concord CL-10 being the largest. I thought maybe there was suppose to be a Lexington class battlecruiser named Concord since it would fit with Lexington and Saratoga but there wasn't one. And I thought maybe one of the cancelled Essex class but to my knowledge there wasn't one planned. It's not like it was a small battle no one's heard of so it seems strange to me they didn't name a carrier after it especially since Lexington got two.

I have two kits of the USS Salem I know the Navy considered reactivating the Des Moines class cruisers in the 1980s, I was wondering if anyone had some graphics of the proposals? I expect to use parts from a 1980s Iowa kit

Hi I am looking for any info around Iraqi warships in general. Mainly looking for warships between 1900-1970-80.

1-any proposals to build any ships? (Destroyers, cruisers of any kind, ETC)

2-any proposals to buy warships from certain countries?

I do know of the lupo class frigate things but that’s as far as I know. I would love to know if Iraq had ever wanted to buy a destroyer as that was the go too thing to do post WW2 for Middle Eastern countries.

The Town class consisted of 10 light cruisers and were commissioned in 1937

The Fiji class consisted of 11 light cruisers and were commissioned in 1940

*Although town class two funnels

Hull number 41 or 61 ? Wasn’t clearly seen by the photo taker

Hello! After vigorous google-searching, I was unable to get a straight answer. Dragged through some sources on the SC-2 on Wikipedia but I haven’t yet found anything.

I was hoping you boat nerds could help me get a definitive answer to my curiosity! For clarity, I’m looking for her search radar range.

Thanks in advance.

Also how many patterns could a US destroyer fire? Thank you

I know the picture isn't that great but this boat has been just off the coast of Panama city beach Florida and Google hasn't been much help on what it could be or what country it may be from. If anyone has a possible answer that is much appreciated

What would the effects be if the South Dakota’s and later ships have been if they had dropped a turret for quads for a total of 8 16 inch guns across two turrets.

Hello,

The wiki for this warships game says that this ship most closely resembles the Gangut class, but the real ships of this class don't have this interesting arrangement of two turrets on the back. Does anyone know a real warship that closely resembles this 3D model?

https://preview.redd.it/ub87jklcoikd1.jpg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0cc27548cd7f3902712b126c50da82445c2647ad

So is it possible to lengthen a ww2 carrier by 30m, how safe would it be?