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...major tactical effect will become apparent only when at least three of the new battle wagons are in service. The 15 battleships now in commission are slow (18-21 knots), depend mainly on heavy armor and crushing fire power. Rated at 27 knots, the North Carolina can probably do 30. Three such speed wagons will give the Fleet a new battleship division, able to operate as a unit with a fair chance to outmaneuver the fastest battleships which an enemy is likely to have. The Navy's present battleships require destroyers, cruisers and aircraft to do the fast...
...begin to join the Fleet before 1943. On order are seven 45,000-tonners, designed to better the North Carolina's speed by several knots. Still on the drafting boards are plans for five even bigger ones. These undoubtedly will have even more gun power, at least equal armor protection. Whether they will be as fast as the North Carolina is still a moot point...
...good and looked it. After the Senate had passed a $3,446,384,000 Navy appropriation bill for 1942, he told why: five of the 17 battleships to be built for the U. S.'s two-ocean Navy will be 65,000-tonners (total displacement including armament and armor). They were contracted for last September, will cost about $130,000,000 apiece...
...operations in the field; his ability to improvise, indicated by the use made of Italian supplies-without which the campaign probably could not have gone so far. The speed of the advances was dazzling mainly because Sir Archibald is a student of speed. He knows its advantages ("Speed is armor") and its disadvantages ("Speed is an expensive commodity: in battleships, motorcars, race horses and women, a comparatively small increase of speed may double the price of the article...
...Armor' plate...