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Armour protection scheme is not only thickness. Angled belt matters; a slight angling of the belt armour can make thinner armour act as if it were thicker, because the shell is impacting at an oblique angle. Torpedoes matter less the further out you are, as torpedo speeds were so low during WWII tha...

Actually, yes, there are major differences between the way the Corolla Matrix/any normal car and the LF-A/any high performance car are made. Far smaller discrepancies which I have repeatedly mentioned regarding fit-and-finish, different technologies required to bore out the aluminium engine blocks o...

If you want to compare ships with equivalent prestige, then use a better example of a ship from a nation. A better comparison for HMS Belfast would be the Koln/Koenigsberg type cruisers. Same role, same level of detail and same level of fit-and-finish. A better comparison for Bismarck would be Vangu...

You are still comparing two different shipbuilding philosophies (volume production and "screw it, toss it out to make it weigh less" compared with "JA DEUTSCHLAND IN ORDNUNG") and trying to prove a conclusive point. And yes, an A3 might be able to do the job, but I was applying RS6 in comparison wit...

Treaty-compliant ships needed to undergo a lot of cost-cutting and weight-saving measures to fit within the tonnage as well as possible. As for the Bismarck, that did not need to apply itself to the logic of the Washington Treaty (or, for that matter, the Versailles agreement that defined the design...

I have close pics of construction details of Bismarck in an old book, and then i compare it to HMS Belfast in London. Hi there. Please explain to me why you are comparing the construction of a treaty-violating battleship with the build style of a treaty-compliant 6" cruiser. At the same time, HMS V...