I remember some years ago in the early '20 that some nutter had this stupid idea of equipping a ship with aircrafts.
And I do not mean one ot two seaplanes: no, the idiot was talking of dozen of land-planing (well, deck-planing) veichles.
Obiouvsly the idea was a complete failure since difficulties in taking off and landing in such a little, moving, wave-rolling, wet strip were simply too much, and all the navies reverted at building the good old grey ships, the ship-of the-line, mountains of steel and cannons that dominate the seas nowadays.
Of course there are variants, such as the german pocket-battleships and the italian MAS, but the bulk of every marine is nowadays composed of dreadnoughts, cruisers and battleships, with their escorting frigates and destroyers.
Oh, and of course there are submarine to take in account.
But nothing as silly as a aircraft-launching-ship.
It is August 1940.
how do you think the war on the seas will evolve?
I would like to have the opinion of
1) Admiral Yamamoto (and, if possible, could you please repeat that Pearl-Harbour-Surprise-Attack plan?)
2) Doenitz
3) Whoever-the-hell-was-Lord-of-the-Admiralty-of-the-British-Empire
4) Idem-for-the-USA
And I do not mean one ot two seaplanes: no, the idiot was talking of dozen of land-planing (well, deck-planing) veichles.
Obiouvsly the idea was a complete failure since difficulties in taking off and landing in such a little, moving, wave-rolling, wet strip were simply too much, and all the navies reverted at building the good old grey ships, the ship-of the-line, mountains of steel and cannons that dominate the seas nowadays.
Of course there are variants, such as the german pocket-battleships and the italian MAS, but the bulk of every marine is nowadays composed of dreadnoughts, cruisers and battleships, with their escorting frigates and destroyers.
Oh, and of course there are submarine to take in account.
But nothing as silly as a aircraft-launching-ship.
It is August 1940.
how do you think the war on the seas will evolve?
I would like to have the opinion of
1) Admiral Yamamoto (and, if possible, could you please repeat that Pearl-Harbour-Surprise-Attack plan?)
2) Doenitz
3) Whoever-the-hell-was-Lord-of-the-Admiralty-of-the-British-Empire
4) Idem-for-the-USA