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#Think Squadrons, not Ships

Think Squadrons, not Ships

  • A battleship is a couple hundred metres long. With a reasonable safety distance for maneuvers, two ships will be roughly a kilometre apart. A squadron in line will be several kilometres long.
  • Effective gunnery range will be a few tens of kilometres.
  • Speed is 30 to 50 kph. A squadron in line might take ten minutes to steam past a stationary observer. A battle fleet takes longer.

Draw it up on graph paper and measure or calculate the ranges. Assuming that both sides have the same gunnery range, the crossing force will be able to concentrate the fire of all their ships against the lead ship of the enemy for several minutes while the rest of the enemy is still out of range.

#Think Squadrons, not Ships

  • A battleship is a couple hundred metres long. With a reasonable safety distance for maneuvers, two ships will be roughly a kilometre apart. A squadron in line will be several kilometres long.
  • Effective gunnery range will be a few tens of kilometres.
  • Speed is 30 to 50 kph. A squadron in line might take ten minutes to steam past a stationary observer. A battle fleet takes longer.

Draw it up on graph paper and measure or calculate the ranges. Assuming that both sides have the same gunnery range, the crossing force will be able to concentrate the fire of all their ships against the lead ship of the enemy for several minutes while the rest of the enemy is still out of range.

Think Squadrons, not Ships

  • A battleship is a couple hundred metres long. With a reasonable safety distance for maneuvers, two ships will be roughly a kilometre apart. A squadron in line will be several kilometres long.
  • Effective gunnery range will be a few tens of kilometres.
  • Speed is 30 to 50 kph. A squadron in line might take ten minutes to steam past a stationary observer. A battle fleet takes longer.

Draw it up on graph paper and measure or calculate the ranges. Assuming that both sides have the same gunnery range, the crossing force will be able to concentrate the fire of all their ships against the lead ship of the enemy for several minutes while the rest of the enemy is still out of range.

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#Think Squadrons, not Ships

  • A battleship is a couple hundred metres long. With a reasonable safety distance for maneuvers, two ships will be roughly a kilometre apart. A squadron in line will be several kilometres long.
  • Effective gunnery range will be a few tens of kilometres.
  • Speed is 30 to 50 kph. A squadron in line might take ten minutes to steam past a stationary observer. A battle fleet takes longer.

Draw it up on graph paper and measure or calculate the ranges. Assuming that both sides have the same gunnery range, the crossing force will be able to concentrate the fire of all their ships against the lead ship of the enemy for several minutes while the rest of the enemy is still out of range.