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Dec 2, 2018 12:46:47 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 2, 2018 12:46:47 GMT -5
Hitler had nearly everything he dominated Europe, he had a giant Army, and a giant air force, and yet he couldn't even make it across 30 miles of English channel, and that's because he didn't have a navy, and now he's finished. This planet is 5 6ths water, that's the way God made it and that's the way it's going to stay, because of that, you're only as powerful as your, SEA POWER!
Because of this fact the military branch that the Imperium should invest most in is the Navy.
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Dec 2, 2018 13:01:27 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 2, 2018 13:01:27 GMT -5
Naval structure and doctrine.
The Navy shall be made of three forces,
The Fighting fleet,
The Invasion fleet,
The Auxiliary fleet,
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Dec 4, 2018 13:23:55 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 4, 2018 13:23:55 GMT -5
The Fighting fleet.
Capitol Ships: Battleships,
Secondaries: Battle Cruisers, Heavy Cruisers, Medium Cruisers, Light Cruisers, Monitors, Pocket Battleships,
Escorts: Flotilla Leaders, Destroyers, Frigates, Corvettes, Sub Chasers,
Air Power: Super Carriers, Fleet Carriers, Light Carriers, Escort Carriers, Helicopter Carriers, Sub Aircraft Carriers, Torpedo Bombers, Dive Bombers, Fighters,
Patrol Craft: Littoral Combat Ships, Cutters, Gun Boats, Missle Boats, Torpedo Boats, Patrol Boats,
Subs: Super Subs, Heavy Gun Subs, Medium Gun Subs, Light Gun Subs, Attack Subs, Hunter Killer Subs,
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Dec 6, 2018 21:09:12 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 6, 2018 21:09:12 GMT -5
Until recently, for many years in fact I believed what many believed, that modern Super Carriers were the ultimate warships and were nearly unbeatable and could destroy anything they wished to.
However after learning of BlackTail Defense on YouTube and watching their series called battleship myths debunked, and watching some of their other series concerning other aspects of the military, I learned, things, about the Navy and rest of the military that startled me.
Besides other things I learned that the Modern Super Carriers in service with the U.S. military were no where near what I had first believed.
Because of time I can not complete this article and will have to continue it tomorrow in another post, in that post I shall out line some of the things I have found out, concerning the Carriers and other things of note.
Until tommorrow.
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Dec 8, 2018 0:28:59 GMT -5
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Post by gsr2018 on Dec 8, 2018 0:28:59 GMT -5
Maybe I can help you build your super carriers since I have tons and tons of steel to make them
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Dec 8, 2018 15:02:00 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 8, 2018 15:02:00 GMT -5
Specifications of an Imperial Aircraft Carrier.
It must be able to carry no less then 100 aircraft, all pf them must be combat capable, all of them must be able to preform roles listed below,
Aircraft;
Dive bombers / Scout / Dog fighter / Missile platform,
Torpedo bombers / High level bombers / Early warning aircraft / Sub hunters,
Dogfighters /Missle platforms / Dive bombers,
The carrier needs to be cheap, there needs to be a lot of them and it needs to be assisted by large numbers of smaller carriers,
So there needs to be 25 fleet carriers, 25 light carriers and 50 escort carriers,
The carrier must have a heavy anti air defense,
The armament of the aircraft will be, Bombs, Torpedos, Depth Charges, and Machine guns.
Bombs will be delivered either through dive bombing, or high level bbombing,
Torpedos shall be delivered by aircraft skimming the surface of the water until the time to launch the torpedo presents it's self.
Again like I said before everything needs to be cheap so that the maximum amount of ships and planes can be built.
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Dec 8, 2018 15:23:14 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 8, 2018 15:23:14 GMT -5
Updated post.
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Dec 8, 2018 15:28:55 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 8, 2018 15:28:55 GMT -5
Example of being cheap with the carriers:
Buy up a whole bunch of merchant ships slap a flight deck and hanger on it, give it some planes then send it on it's way, and do the same with any other hull that no one wants, that kind of thing.
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Dec 8, 2018 15:34:39 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 8, 2018 15:34:39 GMT -5
The standard that the Imperial navy must be able to match.
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Dec 8, 2018 15:36:50 GMT -5
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Post by gsr2018 on Dec 8, 2018 15:36:50 GMT -5
Well I can do that I'll build the hulls and I'll send them to you
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Dec 8, 2018 15:41:28 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 8, 2018 15:41:28 GMT -5
Maybe each nation should focus on certain types of ships as well as focus on certain components of ships, so a nation focusses on building and developing submarines while also building and developing range finders, or guns.
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Dec 8, 2018 15:42:47 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 8, 2018 15:42:47 GMT -5
If we go along with this then my nation will focuss on building battleships and the parts needed for them.
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Dec 8, 2018 15:43:48 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 8, 2018 15:43:48 GMT -5
Well I can do that I'll build the hulls and I'll send them to you Do you want to focuss on carriers and naval aircraft?
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Dec 8, 2018 17:51:26 GMT -5
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Post by gsr2018 on Dec 8, 2018 17:51:26 GMT -5
I'll focus on aircraft carriers and I have a brilliant proposal to make a super carrier
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Dec 8, 2018 19:17:33 GMT -5
Post by Dreadnorramus on Dec 8, 2018 19:17:33 GMT -5
Until recently, for many years in fact I believed what many believed, that modern Super Carriers were the ultimate warships and were nearly unbeatable and could destroy anything they wished to.
However after learning of BlackTail Defense on YouTube and watching their series called battleship myths debunked, and watching some of their other series concerning other aspects of the military, I learned, things, about the Navy and rest of the military that startled me.
Besides other things I learned that the Modern Super Carriers in service with the U.S. military were no where near what I had first believed.
During the Vietnam war the United States reactivated the U.S.S. New Jersey in order to boost the shore bombardment fleet,
During the war the Big J served with amazing success, which ranged from destroying Viet Cong positions, to out right cutting the Ho Chi Minh trail (which was not achieved before or after the New Jersey's deployment) in fact New Jersey's success was so much that the North Vietnamese government said that they would not continue the peace talks until the New Jersy was deactivated.
Oddly enough out of all the weapons that america used in the Vietnam war not one scared the North Vietnamese like the New Jersey, even though there were at least 20 carriers off their shore bombing the crap out of them.
And situations similar to this have played out else where as well, another example was in the 1980s when carrier based jet fighters were sent in to Lebanon to take out the air defenses there, unfortunately it was a disaster, most of the aircraft were either damaged or destroyed and none caused any meaningful damage, after a second attempt was tried and failed, the New Jersy fresh from her 1980s reactivation was sent to finish the job, which she did with as much success as she had in Vietnam after lobing a few 16 inchers in to Lebanon the air defenses were silenced and the commander of said defenses was killed.
However while carriers have had poor success in more modern wars carriers had great success in World War 2, examples of this is the Attack on Pearl Harbour, The sinking of the super battleships Yamato and Musashi, cleaning the Atlantic of the U boats, and helping in many turning points of the war.
But why? I wondered, why were carriers good in World War 2 but not in other wars since?
After much thought and research I came to 2 conclusions, Quantity, and Weapons.
Quantity: During World War 2 America had 97 carrier ranging from fleet carriers to light carriers and escort carriers,
In comparison America has only 10 super carriers and 10 helicopter carriers, that's it.
How about aircraft numbers, now if we only take the Essex class fleet carriers, and they were at their maximum compliment of 100 planes, then you get 2,500 planes on 25 carriers,
Compare that again with modern carriers, Nimitiz class carriers have a compliment of 70 aircraft, and the Wasp class amphibious assault ship can carry between 30 and 20 aircraft, this gives a total of between 1000 and 900 aircraft.
Weapons: After getting the numbers the first I thought was that while there were more World War 2 planes they were no where near as good as modern Jet fighters right?
But that still did'nt answer why the World War 2 carriers were more affective,
But then I thought what about the weapons? So I compared the armament of most modern Jet fighters to World War 2 planes,
So the main weapons used in World War 2 were bombs and torpedos,
In the modern day the main go to weapons are missles,
Now something I realized is that a bomb is really just a battleship shell, in fact the bomb used to sink the U.S.S. Arizona was a modified 16 inch shell from the battleship Nagato,
And then torpedos are affective because they are putting holes in the bottem of a ship which let's the water in, which then sinks the ship, which is why torpedos were the most affective weapons for killing ships. (Oddly enough despite the effectiveness of the torpedo in World War 2, it has since been regulated to be a last ditch weapon aginst torpedos)
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