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Can a mark 45 gun be loaded during firing

Can the 20 round magazine be loaded from the Ammunition stores while the gun is being fired?

12 Comments
2025/01/15
18:33 UTC

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It’s my friends birthday soon and she really likes battleships

It’s my friends birthday in February and she really likes battleships but I know almost nothing about them. Apologies if this is the wrong sub, but do you have any gift ideas I could sort out within a month or so? I know she likes the idea of model battleships but I don’t know where to start there either haha

12 Comments
2025/01/14
11:21 UTC

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Did Missori and Wisconsin fire cluster shells in Desert Storm

I am thinking the Iowa-class battleships had MK-144 cluster shells did they use them in combat. I believe I heard something about them back in 1991

4 Comments
2025/01/12
05:21 UTC

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Need assistance identifying the ship in this image.

Hey guys! I saw this picture while browsing in an antique shop today. I’m guessing it was taken on a US standard battleship, but couldn’t find any information in the photo or on the back of the frame. Would you guys be able to help me identify the ship in this photo? Thank you!

8 Comments
2025/01/12
03:05 UTC

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retired aircraft carrier

5 Comments
2025/01/10
00:25 UTC

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I made this to help give a timelines to British Battleship/battlecruiser concepts

I get confused between the Monarch and the Lion Class and for how big you the G3 ships were before 2WW. And critic or help to add stuff to present information would be appreciated.

12 Comments
2025/01/07
19:02 UTC

0

127mm VOLCANO shell question.

I understand how accurate these shells are, but does anyone know what the kill radius is?

1 Comment
2025/01/07
02:42 UTC

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Littorio Class Battleship in action. Original procedures, phrases and words used by the italian royal navy in world war two (SUBTITLES on) [1920x1080]

2 Comments
2025/01/03
16:32 UTC

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Did the Germans just name all their battleship/battlecruiser turrets Anton,Keil and Bruno? And did any other nations name their turrets?

A saw a post recently on here of naming the Scharhorst front turrets Anton and Bruno but I know Bruno was also Bismarck's turret? (Thanks to Tamiya 1/72 model of it) then thinking about it I don't ever hear anything about British or American dreadnoughts/super dreadnaughts turrets being named?

23 Comments
2025/01/03
11:10 UTC

87

What is this thing?

Alpino frigate italian navy

5 Comments
2025/01/02
19:23 UTC

19

Argentine Navy clip from the 1967 film “La muchachada de abordo”

Starring the comedian Carlitos Balá and the singer Leo Dan (who recently passed away) this film is a remake of the 1937 comedy with the same name. The old version was filmed in the battleship ARA Rivadavia. Both movies are a kind of propaganda films.

0 Comments
2025/01/02
18:14 UTC

238

How was Shinano sunk by only 4 torpedoes while Yamato took around 10 and Musashi around 19 to sink?

41 Comments
2025/01/01
04:09 UTC

10

Regia Marina parade in 1938 for the german chancellor - some nice footage of Battleship Cavour

0 Comments
2024/12/31
10:38 UTC

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Enhanced & colorized film of HMS Barham capsizing and exploding

5 Comments
2024/12/28
19:56 UTC

64

Does anybody know what these 4 pegs are on my COBI Tirpitz?

Got this beautiful of tirpitz from COBI for Christmas, but I am confused on what these 4 pegs are on the stern side. Does anybody know?

4 Comments
2024/12/26
23:24 UTC

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Is this a blueprint of HMS Vanguard (Commissioned 1946) hilariously being passed off as a Kirov class battlecruiser?

13 Comments
2024/12/25
05:42 UTC

22

Essex class carriers range unique?

Ive read the essex class range was 20,000nmi at 15 knots with ww2 fitting .This seems to be unqiue as other carrier class like illustrious is 10,000nmi at 10knots, implacable being 12,000nmi. Is this right cause even today uss wasp lhd is only 9500 nmi at 18knots

7 Comments
2024/12/24
21:12 UTC

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Why does Germany not work with France/Italy or SK to solve its naval problems?

The German Navy will be sorely lacking in capable surface combatants in the near future and the new F126/F127s won't be built and ready until the 2030s, as well as being very, very expensive. France/Italy and South Korea both have capable platforms already in production. (FREMMs and Horizons as an example) Germany has already worked with Italy and SK by exporting its submarines. Why is that option not being considered?

Germany, whose naval shipbuilding industry is export oriented, has plenty of exprience working with other nations. So why not go off-the-shelf with another NATO partner or South Korea and procure some modern, existing designs? They could be partially produced overseas as well as domestically and use German technology in some areas if preferred.

You could also use the gained time to design domestic platforms that are more time-adequate than atleast the f126s.

16 Comments
2024/12/24
20:34 UTC

176

Will we ever see as many Aircraft Carriers as what was deployed in WW2?

79 Comments
2024/12/24
05:07 UTC

6

Some footage of Soviet Project 1124 Armoured River Gunboats at Stalingrad!

0 Comments
2024/12/24
02:09 UTC

6

Classifications of warship?

What are the classifications of warships? Like I heard Iowa class etc but what are the differences between them?

6 Comments
2024/12/23
16:23 UTC

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Some interesting scenes. Does Anyone know who the crew and Commander are?

2 Comments
2024/12/22
13:01 UTC

3

Help for an absolute beginner, please!

Hi guys. I have long been interested in military history (decades), but have only recently developed the space to be interested in model building. However, I’m having difficulty tracing specific models and was wondering if anyone here has experience in this?

I appreciate that this is NOT a model-building sub, so if you could guide me to the correct sub either, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

3 Comments
2024/12/22
02:05 UTC

95

Rangefinder broke, I got this

I don’t know if you aren’t supposed to, but I crawled in front of the range finder on USS Alabama’s Turret 1, port side. Pretty tight fit lol. They had no signs saying I couldn’t, and I didn’t break anything

USS Alabama, BB-60

11 Comments
2024/12/21
23:45 UTC

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Identify?

Looks like 3 subs front and 2 surface ships on the right. This photo was taken July 14th 2017 on a cruise. Taken around 10:00 PM at about 60°07'13"N 29°07'32"E Just wondering if there’s a website or someone who documents surface groups worldwide.

11 Comments
2024/12/21
21:26 UTC

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What’s the point of these stairs on the side parallel to the aft turret?

I was building a model of the ship and had to attach them to the side of the hull. Little confused as to their exact purpose. I tried to highlight it a bit sorry for the quality in advance. Thank you for any info!

10 Comments
2024/12/21
14:57 UTC

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