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  1. Armor: WW2 versus Modern

    A materials / metallurgy question: *IF* it were still rational to build battleships, how much better would armors of modern materials (alloys, ceramics, whatever) be than their WW2 equivalents? Are we talking ten percent improvement, 50, 100? Would a modern armored ship use steel, more exotic...

  2. Silent Victory Rebooted

    *Following up on my recent brainstorm thread... the US fixes / improves its torpedoes before the beginning of the Pacific War. Phoenix Beneath The Waves: The Mark 14 Torpedo, Part One By William D. Baker, Commander, USN Excerpted from Proceedings of the U.S. Naval...

  3. AH Challenge: Better US torpedoes in 1941

    Preferably with a POD not earlier than the mid-1930s, can the US get into service by 12/7/1941: 1. A better version of the Mark 14 and Mark 15 type, with either a working influence exploder, or with the influence exploder removed. 2. A first-generation passive homing acoustic torpedo. I'm...

  4. Kido Butai: After the Wave

    POD: December 7, 1941. In the pre-dawn gloom, an eighty-foot monster rogue wave crashes into the assembled ships of the IJN striking force, with the first wave largely spotted on deck. The Carriers are damaged from the violence of the wave, but do not sink (same with BBs and CAs). Three...
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