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- From: Markus Stumptner <mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
- Subject: Re: Alaska Class Cruisers
- Message-ID: <Bzq2uA.4ML@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:20:34 GMT
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- From Markus Stumptner <mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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- >From "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com>
- > Alas, even by WWII, people STILL hadn't learned.
-
- I do agree with you, but the examples are not all that clear-cut.
-
- > The Scharnhorst tried
- > to play battleship against the Duke of York, and lost.
-
- I don't think she tried. When she encountered heavy opposition, she
- retreated, and superior British radar allowed the Duke of York to
- intercept her.
-
- > The Kirishima
- > tried it against the Washington and South Dakota, and lost.
-
- Good example. It shows, however, that battlecruisers did indeed have
- a chance if the got the drop on the enemy, since what saved the battle
- was US numerical superiority. Had the South Dakota been alone, things
- would have looked different.
-
- I would say Hiei is also a good example of battlecruiser
- vulnerability, being effectively destroyed by the ships she was
- designed to hunt, because she let herself be caught in a close-range
- fight.
-
- > The Hood
- > tried it on the Bismarck, and lost (although I think in the case of
- > the Hood, it may have been a lucky hit. Hood's armor wasn't THAT bad).
-
- I think the deck armor was fairly weak. (But indeed, by WWII
- standards, any one hit that causes a battleship or equivalent to
- explode must be called a lucky hit.)
-
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- Markus Stumptner mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
- University of Technology Vienna vexpert!mst@relay.eu.net
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