♜ Semi-Fixed seabed Infrastructures: Oil platforms/rigs, Naval Forts, and associated. 1,337 operational onshore oil rigs, 240 offshore rigs, Maunsell Forts, Texas Towers, etc. This page is dedicated to semi-fixed structures at sea. Definition: These structure, whatever their purposes, are generally built with steel or any metal in shipyards, with buoyancy in mind, and with a … Read more
Naval Artillery – All types, caliber and timeframe I considered important, in complement to the subject matter of this wesbite – warships – to have a look more in detail about their primary payload and the way it evolved and created new tactics. It seems obvious at first glance, when looking at the ful picture … Read more
Popular Science article, 1917. As USA entered the war and lacked everything including tanks, PopSci published an article about the idea of… putting old pre-dreadnoughts on tracks (or wheels in this case). We must remember that the idea was not that outlandish back in 1917. After all, the only significant fiction about the matter has … Read more
Naval Technology – Every field. ⚙ From the origins to these days: Naval Technology About a definition of naval technology All good university-like expose starts with a definition: Naval Technology could be summarized as all ways devised to allow mankind seafaring. It’s quite ambitious in its scope and we can only guess the subject would … Read more
