World Affairs Board - View Single Post - Could the Zumwalt's guns take on a battleship?

FOG3 · 04-22-2008, 18:53 PM

If you say so.

The Battle of Tsushima was between pre-Dreadnoughts and had as much to do with the Russian's failings in discipline, skill, and otherwise as anything else. In the Naval campaigns after that Battleships were like movie stars a lot of glamour, a lot of invested resources, very little actual work. The WW1 naval action was dominated by the submarine, and if the Germans had just been a little better at it they would have strangled the British to death. As is they effectively tore Britain from her throne opening it for the US. WW2 Atlantic was subs, Pacific was Carriers and PT boats.

The Dreadnought concept was a bad idea from day one, and sucked valuable resources from other necessary things such as invested resources to create safe berthings for the Grand Fleet. They learned the wrong lessons from the Russo-Japanese war when they thought those things up.

04-22-2008, 18:53 PM	#18 (permalink)
FOG3 Patron Join Date: 05-04-06 Posts: 193	If you say so. The Battle of Tsushima was between pre-Dreadnoughts and had as much to do with the Russian's failings in discipline, skill, and otherwise as anything else. In the Naval campaigns after that Battleships were like movie stars a lot of glamour, a lot of invested resources, very little actual work. The WW1 naval action was dominated by the submarine, and if the Germans had just been a little better at it they would have strangled the British to death. As is they effectively tore Britain from her throne opening it for the US. WW2 Atlantic was subs, Pacific was Carriers and PT boats. The Dreadnought concept was a bad idea from day one, and sucked valuable resources from other necessary things such as invested resources to create safe berthings for the Grand Fleet. They learned the wrong lessons from the Russo-Japanese war when they thought those things up. Last edited by FOG3 : 04-22-2008 at 19:04 PM.