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Quoted Originally posted by Fyrwulf Mestre dos Almirantes - Board of Admiralty. My Brazilian Portuguese dictionary didn't have the exact translation I wanted, so I improvised. With the navy title, I was trying to get across "Navy of the Empire of Brazil", however Marinha Imperial is less cumbersome and would probably be better used in less formal situations. EDIT: Thank you for the publication title, I'll use that from now on for the news reports. If it dates back to the real Empire of Brazil, ...
Quoted Originally posted by Fyrwulf [Thank you very much! What'd I get wrong? I've never tried to learn any of the classical languages, so the syntax is largely lost on me.] Senado Imperial Mestre dos Almirantes - BTW, what do you mean with this title? Navy Minister? Chief of Naval Staff? Império do Brasil is correct, although the navy would be probably(not sure) called Marinha Imperial. BTW, the main naval publication in Brazil is the Revista Marítima Brasileira - it's being published since th...
I can help you with names and other details, being Brazilian myself. Don't know about who was who historically, but I think I can be of assistance.
Quoted Originally posted by thesmilingassassin Hmm the link doesn't work for me but I think I know what tanks your refering to. The link doesn't work because there's a comma at the end of the URL(sometimes, punctuation marks meant for the text get added to the URLs). Delete it and the link works.
Quoted Originally posted by HoOmAn Why do you think the RSAN needs larger ships than other countries? Because of inefficient designs so far (twin turrets where others already used triples etc.)? Long patrols. The analogy here is with US cruisers, who had to cross long distances without the benefit of a large network of refueling stations like the RN did. Here, you have bases relatively close to your patrol areas, but I'd keep them on station as long as possible, because you have large sections ...
Quoted Originally posted by HoOmAn Keep in mind the RSAN has used only 63% of its tonnage allotment for cruisers category B so far. And this includes 11 Torpedoboats of 2,000ts each armed with 15cm guns. Hmm, had forgotten about those torpedo boats, I thought all the tonnage referred to aging(but still having some service life) cruisers. It does free up some tonnage for sure. It looks like we have different points of view regarding how small cruisers can be while still fulfilling their tasks; y...
Quoted Originally posted by HoOmAn What would I build? Good question. The idea of DLs appearred to me as well but then again I just started with a class of 2,000 tonners (DL2 of which 8 units will be build in short order (two years period). Over all I have 35kts for these type of ship available. That´s about 17 units - or two classes of 8 units each and 3kts to be spend on two standard 1,500 tonners. I think that these category A destroyers will be able to act as flotilla leaders where no CL is...
If you don't build any cruisers, what would you build? I'm asking this because you'll soon have 36 light cruisers in service(CL13 onwards, as well as the CL08 rebuilds). Of those, 8 are 8,000 tons, the rest under 6,000. I'd postpone building cruisers for a (small) while, and build smaller destroyer leaders(of which there seems to be a lot of unused tonnage). The idea would be to free the light cruisers from leader duties as much as possible, keeping the older cruisers on less critical sectors(if...
50 million dollars is a LOT of money for the standards of the day.
Also, the Avtomat Federova, using the 6.5mm Arisaka, was designed in 1916, and used in the Russian Civil War in small quantities, IIRC.
Quoted And Slava hit Goeben on her first salvo, and several times thereafter in 1914. You mean Evstafey. One other thing, Russian pre-dreadnoughts aimed all guns on their squadron onto a single target; the flagship would designate the target and aim at it, and the other ships would make small changes to account for their position. It was as if they had a 16-gun ship shooting at a single target(in theory at least; I don't know how well it worked in practice).
Quoted Originally posted by LordArpad interesting thought. Mind you part of my family is chilean and we are not on speaking terms. the chileans are not very well liked in south america as far as i know. definitely not in Brazil. That's news to me. We do like to deride Argentinians, though.
Quoted Originally posted by Swamphen (...and mechanicals by Fiat. :-P ) FIAT - Fábrica Italiana Atrapalhando o Trânsito(Italian Factory Hindering Traffic, in Portuguese)
I wonder how much space is left for torpedo protection near A turret.
Quoted Originally posted by Swamphen I dunno, considering what kind of ships WesWorld pirates have been tooling around in... ;-) Even then, the French have smaller(400mm) torpedoes(at least they had them in OTL), which would be a better fit for this ship.
Given her likely opponents, I'd say torpedoes are overkill. I'd rather have a second 120mm gun(or 4 75mm guns instead of the 120/75mm guns)
Quoted Originally posted by thesmilingassassin Theres only one Swede I wouldn't want to run into, anyone ever seen "heartbreak ridge" with Clint Eastwood? Swede! Swede! Swede!
Quoted Originally posted by Ithekro Perhaps it has something to do with the weight of a side elevator on an already heavy deck, plus the cut in the side of the support structure for the planes in the hanger (hangers in this case) to access that elevator? The latter. The Forrestals were able to manage having four big holes on their strength deck due to sheer size and fancy structural design(the nature of which was not explained - on purpose).
Quoted Originally posted by HoOmAn Just answer me this little question if an armored deck on a carrier automatically leads to a deck edge elevator: Why didn´t the British introduce this feature on their armored carriers? The Americans hadn´t armored decks after all... Building deck-edge elevators on an armoured deck was done for the first time on USS Forrestal. It apparently is quite difficult to mix both features, that's why the British didn't go for that on their armoured carriers.
Quoted Originally posted by Desertfox Shees come to Arizona. No Hurricanes, No Earthquakes, No Tornados. I've yet to find a major natural disaster in AZ. Yes, but look at the folks who live there.... (Old joke about the lack of natural disasters in Brazil)
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