Thiaria: Other People's ships

[Cybermax]

Awesome CV conversion Garlic!

[eswube]

Stunning!

[adenandy]

W O W

That is some impressive work there GD my old friend

Jolly WELL DONE my old China, great drawings, as ALWAYS

[erik_t]

It's a very well executed drawing.

Do we know much about German doctrine of the time about a ship's boat complement? It seems like there's a lot of potential hangar space that's being lost, particularly in a war-expedient design that would not be expected to be a luxury barge in peacetime.

[Hood]

I don't have the words to say how much I love the battlecruiser and its carrier counterpart. The Bv-155 carrier fighter is a neat touch too.

[Garlicdesign]

Hello again

Thanks everyone - especially erik! You're perfectly right, that would have to be expected. The Seydlitz conversion project also massively cut back on boat complement compared with the Zeppelin, so I deleted some of the boats and added hangar ventilation shutters.

Greetings
GD

[apdsmith]

Hi GD,

Lovely drawings, as always!

Do you have any stats / specs on what appears to be a height-finder radar on the carrier's mast? Not sure I've seen that before...

Regards,
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[Garlicdesign]

Hi again

@apdsmith:

Plans of Graf Zeppelin show the same installation. My interpretation was two passive radar receivers mounted next to each other. Probably even for a reason; I'm however no electronics expert and can't really say why they were mounted that way.

Greetings
GD

[Krakatoa]

We take it you are spending so much time on the overhead GD, that it is going to be more awesome than the side views.

[apdsmith]

Hi GD,

I'm no expert myself, but the thin, tall setup had me thinking of Wasserfall:



Presumably, with a transmit side and a receive side?

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EDIT: Yeah, that is total speculation, I just can't see a reason for a passive receiver to have that sort of antennae geometry - it's going to have blind spots out to the sides of the mattress, surely? A tracking antenna would be a dish or Yagi, no?