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August 27, 2018

Critique of a retro-futuristic battleship design

Filed under: History, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 05:00

At Naval Gazing, a bit of informed criticism of a September 1940 Popular Mechanics article on the future of battleships:

I recently ran across the following spread from a 1940 edition of Popular Mechanics. It’s an interesting study in the way that outsiders get warship design very, very wrong.

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