Scharnhorst class reconstructed

NO just not with arguing about. These are all 'schools of thought', since any report is anecdotal at best and there for...

"einmal ist keinmal"

I have never heard of deck armour being designed to specifically to produce duds. Hence my question.

My second question on deck armour

The German proverb einmal ist keinmal means "once doesn't count" (literally "once is never"), used to say that a single event is not significant or that one can be forgiven the first time one makes a mistake (but, implicitly, not the second time).
 
Yes but in statistics it means more. Basically it means it takes a lot of samples for anything to mean something.

In ballistics the simple act of projectile penetration of plate requires a number of sample to generate a simple data point, and three data points to generate a meaningful graph. That's 20-30 samples and with each group all samples condition must be the exact same gun/projectile/range target plate & angle of impact etc. Each impact has to be on a fresh target plate, no hitting the same target..

Historical data is simply too inconsistent to add up to anything.

Once you add detonations & explosions, the number of samples per data point goes up sharply.
 
If with sea trial commencing in '41 would it be possible for the Kriegsmarine to sortie the twins with Bismarck (it did not go on it's May '41 sortie) and Tirpitz together? Would it also be possible for them to build 3 more raiders using the now surplus 11" turrets?
 
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