I've finally managed to purchase a copy of Heart of Oak after several months searching. However, the playsheet showing all the tables is not present. I've...
... OK, what are you missing? My copy has 4 pages of charts/ tables. These are on thick car stock, between pages 20&21. Some of thes are Wind direction &...
http://www.avalanchepress.com/gameGandhi.php Proving that humor still exists! Regards, Pat Last Played: Wilderness War, Lock n' Load X2 (via Vassal), Three...
In WWII, if I recall correctly, it was difficult, if not impossible to detect a sub with sonar, while the ship was moving at, or faster than 16 - 18 knots, so...
... various ... This is "Chart 19" in my photocopy of HoO. Sailing xharts 1~4, tacking/mast falling charts, VII.E.1, VIII.E.2, Mast Falling I/I.B, Mast Falling...
Albert Parker
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Apr 2, 2005 5:16 pm
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And for Beatty in context, I'd also recommend Andrew Gordon's Rules of the Game, which is a sort of family history of the Royal Navy in the era 1880-1917 (and...
... I never saw any commercially that I liked, and since I'm a cheap bastard anyway, I make my own. Except for the acrylic paint, it costs next to nothing and...
Excellent suggestion Leonard, although IIRC Gordon is not terribly kind in his appraisal of Beatty as a commander. Nevertheless "Rules of the Game" is a...
Byron Angel
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Apr 4, 2005 2:39 pm
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Boy, it has been a long while since I studied this topic. IIRC - Sonar detection of a submarine by a ssurface escort was influenced by - Speed (noise) of the...
Byron Angel
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Apr 4, 2005 2:57 pm
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If anyone is interested, I have placed on eBay the Yaquinto games, Ironclads and the Ironclads supplement. Both games are in one box. Games are complete,...
... Now here's a thing I have been wondering ever since I got the Harpoon4 rules. Practically all the US ships had/have the SLQ-25 acoustic decoy. However, in...
Uhhhh, aren't acoustic decoys by their nature supposed to be emulating a wake? Then it stands to reason, the decoy is not doing its job. ... -- BT NNNN Tracy...
i thought that modern anti sub ships had towed array sonar and also nixie decoys deployed astern so that any torp fired at them would hit the decoy and not the...
... Wake homers were a late comers during the Cold War. Until them, almost all if not all torpedoes on anti surface mode were passive homers which could be ...
Another advantage to wake-homing torpedoes would PRESUMABLY be that tracking of it by the target ship would be difficult/impossible due to self-induced...
Byron Angel
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Apr 4, 2005 8:49 pm
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... Apparently our friends on the other side of the former Iron Curtain had - I read somewhere that the some members of the RBU series of ASW mortars were also...
... I`ve also read about RBU launchers on Soviet capital ships being used as anti torpedo devices, although I have no idea about how they could calculate ...
Somehow I have the feeling that, detected early enough, it would be possible to counter a wake-homer. Considering that these Russian wake-homers are being...
Byron Angel
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Apr 4, 2005 9:37 pm
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These Russian wake-homers never had speed 100 kts. ... From: Byron Angel [mailto:byron@...] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:45 PM To: DAVID MANLEY ...
... That would be my guess too. It makes sense that if the Russians had a weapon, they would want to counter it also, just in case we had something similar. ...
... possible to counter a wake-homer. Considering that these Russian wake-homers are being credited with 100 knot speeds, they must have a pretty impressive...
I'm interested in this too. As I (so poorly) understand it, the wake homing torpedo oscillates between the edges (boundaries) of the wake of the ship it is...
... As far as I know, top speed for any Russian wake homer is around 50knots. No conventional torpedo run faster than around 70 knots IIRC and the Shkvall ...
... Hi, Vasily! Most info on Soviet/Russian torpedoes in Western publications is quite confusing, could you enlighten us with some info on current Russian ...
... IR missiles go after the heat signature of your airframe and engines, while a wake homer follows a ship`s wake until it hits something. Wake homers have a...
Thanks for the correction Gorka. I am not terribly familiar with modern naval weapons and get most of what passes for info from the general media. I wonder...
