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Originally posted by Brockpaine
The idea of a late 1800s USN which actually built a halfway respectable battleline instead of thinking the Civil War ships would still work... that would be a cool alt-history, I'd think.
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Originally posted by Red Admiral
The reason the USN didn't have anything like a respectable fleet until the 1900s was quite simple. They couldn't build one and had no need for one either.
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I think it was less that we couldn't as much as we never actually bothered to try.
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Originally posted by Red Admiral
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I think it was less that we couldn't as much as we never actually bothered to try.
No shipbuilding industry. No heavy industry. No base of designers. Lack of materials. The US of then was very different to now. Given the constraints they produced some really good and useful monitors, but more just isn't going to happen.
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Originally posted by HoOmAn
According to Friedmann it was also much like "we couldn´t" because the USA lacked steel mills and the technology for guns of the kind needed, IIRC.
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Originally posted by ShinRa_Inc
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Originally posted by HoOmAn
According to Friedmann it was also much like "we couldn´t" because the USA lacked steel mills and the technology for guns of the kind needed, IIRC.
I think the point Brock is trying to make is that some of the reason there wasn't any industry or infrastructure to support a fleet was because there wasn't a percieved need for it; The fleet, and by extention the stuff to build/support it. If the US came up with the desire/need, it'd have to develop that industry, but just because it wasn't there historically doesn't mean it couldn't have been developed; other nations did so.
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Originally posted by HoOmAn
Glad to know Friedmann is proofen wrong....
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