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A Brief History of the Battle of Skagerrack, May 31-June 1, 1916 
Mihály Krámli and László Kiss, 12 March 2024
The Report on the Battle of Jutland by the Austro-Hungarian Naval Attaché in Berlin, Fregattenkapitän Colloredo-Mannsfeld
Mihály Krámli, 28 February 2024
Guns at Dahlgren
Evan Dwyer, 08 January 2024
The British 14in Quadruple Mark III Turret
Matthew Warwick, 27 November 2023
- USN Ship Designations, Guy Derdall and Tony DiGiulian
- Problems with the Mini-Submarine at Pearl Harbor Theory, Joseph Czarnecki and Tony DiGiulian
- Kamikaze Damage to US and British Carriers, Tony DiGiulian
- Were Armored Flight Decks on British Carriers Worthwhile?, Stuart Slade and Richard Worth
- Analysis of the Battle of Dong Hoi, Stuart Slade
- The Battle of Dong Hoi: Alternative Views, Larry Rouse and William W. Berry
- Destruction of the Bismarck, Stuart Slade
- The Crack in Missouri's Barbette III, R. A. Landgraff
- Do Battleships move sideways when they fire?, R. A. Landgraff and Greg Locock
- Naming of Warships in the Imperial Japanese Navy, William Lise
- Naval Warship Museums: Problems and Potentials, Robert St. Jacques
- German Radar in World War II, Erwin F. Sieche
- USS Iowa World War II Anti-Aircraft Engagements, Dave Way
- Speed Thrills I: Fastest Battleships?, Tony DiGiulian
- Speed Thrills II: Max Speed of the Iowa Class Battleships, Tony DiGiulian
- Speed Thrills III: Max speed of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Stuart Slade
- Speed Thrills IV, Bob Clarke
- Speed Thrills V, A. Stephen Toby
- The Working Environment for German Warship Design in World War I and World War II, Peter Lienau
- The Working Environment for German Submarine Design in World War II, Peter Lienau
- Longest Gunfire Hit on an Enemy Warship, Tony DiGiulian
- The Effectiveness of Japanese Torpedo Strategy, Joseph Czarnecki
- Performance of US Battleships at Surigao Strait, Joseph Czarnecki
- "N-squared Law", Joseph Czarnecki
- "What did the USN know about Yamato and when?", Joseph Czarnecki
- A Survey of US Ships Transferred to Britain in Exchange for Western Hemisphere Basing Rights, Joseph Czarnecki with Tony DiGiulian
- The Philadelphia Experiment, Tony DiGiulian and Stuart Slade
- Naval Limitation Treaties of the 1920s and 1930s, Tony DiGiulian
- British Frigate Types, Tony DiGiulian
- British Destroyer Losses of World War II, Tony DiGiulian
- Naval Camouflage, Paul Killins
- What if the Japanese had not Attacked Pearl Harbor?, Michael Snyder
- The Limits of Japanese Strength and Strategic Alternatives in December, 1941, Brad Smith III
- Battlecruiser Chronology: North Sea Operations in World War One, David Clark
- Kort Nozzles and Ducted Propellers, Stuart Slade
- Understanding Block Coefficients, Stuart Slade
- Skeg Design, Stuart Slade
- Ship's Covers, Stuart Slade
- Towing Tank Tests, Stuart Slade
- Metacentric Height, Stuart Slade
- Shake, Rattle and Roll (Vibration in ships), Stuart Slade
- Understanding the Prismatic Coefficient, Stuart Slade
- Big Propellers, Stuart Slade
- Designing a Ship, Stuart Slade
- Designing a Propeller, Stuart Slade
- Shafting a Ship, Stuart Slade
- Effects of Water Depth on Speed Trials, Stuart Slade
- The Japanese Ise and Hyuga Hybrid Battleship-Carriers, Stuart Slade
- British vs. French Shipbuilding, Stuart Slade and Peter Lienau
- German Power Plants in World War II, Peter Lienau
- Stagger Step Welding, R. A. Landgraff
- Full Speed Ahead and Crash Stops on Iowa Battleships, R. A. Landgraff
- How do you "weigh" a ship?, Al Wellman and Caspar Vermeulen
- Why one thick deck is better than two thin ones, Daniel (Cen) Mercer
- A Design Criteria for the Optimization of Naval Transverse Bulkheads, Ian Raymond
- Nuclear vs. Conventional Marine Power Plants, Al Minyard
- Steam Plants, Michael Snyder
- "All or Nothing" Protection, Joseph Czarnecki
- The Concept of the Immunity Zone, Joseph Czarnecki
- Turboelectric Drive in American Capital Ships, Joseph Czarnecki
- A Survey of the American Standard Type Battleship, Joseph Czarnecki
- Torpedo Defense Systems, Joseph Czarnecki
- Fuel Consumption and Efficiencies in Primemovers of 1920, Greg Locock
- Size of British and US destroyers of the 1930s-40s, Tony DiGiulian
- Do Turrets really fall out if a Battleship capsizes?, Tony DiGiulian
- Definitions and Information about Naval Guns, Tony DiGiulian
- Air Defense, Stuart Slade/Larry/Andy Pico
- Mine Warfare, Stuart Slade
- Radar Frequency Band Designations, Stuart Slade
- Radars, Nathan Okun
- The Effects of Underwater Explosions, Nathan Okun
- Underwater Projectile Hits, Nathan Okun
- How Shell Fuzes Work, Nathan Okun
- US Armor Plate Types and German Naval Projectiles, Nathan Okun
- Defeating Face-Hardened Armor, Nathan Okun
- Fire Control and Fire Control on the Prinz Eugen, Nathan Okun
- Ballistic Tests on the IJN Shinano's Turret Face Armor, Nathan Okun
- The Armor Thickness Necessary to Decap an APC Projectile, Nathan Okun
- Decapping Revisited, Nathan Okun
- Projectile AP Caps, Nathan Okun
- Notes on Modern Armor, Nathan Okun
- Kirishima's hit on South Dakota, Nathan Okun
- Projectile Designs of the French and Italian Navies, Nathan Okun
- Propellant in World War I and World War II, Wee Dave and Nathan Okun
- Projectile Dynamics, Bill Jurens
- Shell Aerodynamics 101, Matt Ossip
- How to Hide a Task Force, Andy Pico
- The Mark 51 FCS, Gene Slover
- Selsyn and Synchro Devices, Gene Slover
- The Mark 1 Fire Control Computer, Gene Slover
- Roll, Pitch and Yaw - Fire Control Problems and Mark 1/1A Solutions, Gene Slover
- Why Magazines are Refrigerated, Al Wellman
- The U.S. Merchant Marine Civilian Warships of World War II and their Armament, James V. Shannon
- Post-World War II Acoustic ASW Torpedo Development, James V. Shannon
- Crosley's Secret War Effort - The Proximity Fuze, Ed Jennings
- Proximity Fuze - What does "VT" Mean?, Tony DiGiulian
- The British High Altitude Control System (HACS), Tony DiGiulian
- HACS: A Debacle or Just-in-Time?, Peter Marland
- USN Anti-Aircraft Fire Control Comparison, G. R. Pomerat and J. M. Dobbie
- From Fellside to Flyplane: How a very junior officer changed the whole course of RN Anti-Aircraft fire control despite strong Admiralty opposition, Commander Roger Porteous RN
- Calculating crh, Tony DiGiulian
- Pounders!, Tony DiGiulian
- Fire Control Systems in World War II, Tony DiGiulian
- US Naval Gun Production During World War I, Tony DiGiulian
- US Naval Gun Mount Production During World War II, Tony DiGiulian
- Muzzle Flash, Tony DiGiulian
- Naval Propellants - A Brief Overview, Tony DiGiulian
- R2D2 with Attitude: The Story of the Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS), Robert H. Stoner
- A Bridge Too Far: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in Navy Service during the Cold War, Robert H. Stoner
- Lessons Not Learned: Cruise Missile Attacks on USS STARK (FFG-31) and INS HANIT (FFL-503), Robert H. Stoner
- The British 16"/45 Mark I Gun and Mounting, Terry Duncan
- German Turret Designations, Peter Lienau
- German Optical Rangefinders, Peter Lienau
- Ready Ammunition on SMS Hindenburg, Peter Lienau
- Overview of USN and IJN Warship Ballistic Computer Design, Bradley Fischer
- Sympathetic Detonation of 16"/50 HC Projectiles, Michael M. Swisdak, Jr. and Francis B. Porzel
- The Garzke and Dulin Empirical Formula for Armor Penetration, John Priestle
- USN Large Caliber Gun Construction, James Poynor
- The Myth of the Unusable Gun Turret: Legend or Reality?, Mihály Krámli