Were the USN using HF/DF at this time? The RN were struggling to get enough sets built to fulfil their requirements in OTL. ITTL of course this could be different.
I am not an aeronautical engineer, though I trained to fly gliders and was competition piloting paragliders for many years so all I would say is that if the Tandem wing was such a panacea why has it always been a developmental dead end. Every aircraft is a balance of compromises perhaps the...
In one word Brutal carrier exchange, first round to the IJN.
Going back a bit, the Miles M39B was a very intersting aircraft but an absolute 'No No' as a FAA fighter as it possessed possibly the worst possible flight characteristic for that use, the very stuff of nightmares for a naval pilot...
Early ASV sets had aerials on the top and side of the fuselage.
As seen above, OTL ASV mark 1 entered service in Early 1940, the Mark II in 1941. The Leigh Light could have been in service almost a year earlier than OTL if there had not been bureaucratic inertia and down right obstruction. So...
Back to the Sterling's range. There was a trade of between a large weight of relatively small bombs (2000lb max per bomb) of 14,000 lb which limited the range to around 550miles, or a much longer range, some sources say around 2,000 miles but with a reduced bombload of 3,500lb. So you are...
My bad i was forgetting those were the large 6" cruisers. especially as in the last year I have been carrying out serious archive research into their designers!! I really dropped the Ball there, 00os.
As I stae in my post the whole point for the RN is to have cruisers limited to six inch guns. Anything bigger comes out of their battleship tonnage. So will not happen.
What if rather than completing and keeping the Hawkins class 7.5" gunned Cruisers the RN was able to discard them in the ALT treaty in compensation being allowed one extra Nelson and all treaty cruisers were limited to 6". Any ship with guns over 6" having to come out of your Battleship tonnage...
RN cruiser designers were in the interwar period trying to balance conflicting requirements. The RN needed to balance numbers of cruisers with the fighting capabilities of individual ships. Hence three turret heavy cruisers like Exeter and York. The Light 6" gunned cruisers verses the 8" gunned...
This would become known to the allies very quickly. Spain would be told in no uncertain terms that this action meant that they were not a neutral nation but a co-belligerent with the Axis. In other words "Cease and Desist or face the consequences". This is the same reason that the Luftwaffe did...
Calling 617 squadron with Avro Lincolns !
Scaling the bombs on the B29 picture, those are two tall boys at about 12000 lbs each. I do not think that the B29 could lift two Grand Slams for a Total weight of around 44,000Lb or in other words 20tons,
A single Grand slam on the centreline , yes...
I an not sure at under 30lb I would ever call the Lewis a heavy machine gun, Maxim's and Vickers are around double that weight and I would consider that the Bench mark for a HMG.
The Bren was only around 5 Lb less in weight than the early shrouded Lewis guns.
The stripped down Lewis as carried...