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not a chance for lack of production capacity. Again shematics are one thing, production is another. On a ship you don't have thinks like production default margin and so one


Gema and Telefunkin did not have any problems with production capacity in 1942. In fact they had a huge slack in there production capacity. Say in 1944 maybe. As for giving the information to Germany. The Japanese would just for the simple reason that there is so much information and that some of the technical information might be beyond them. Fine, detailed welding techniques.

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ah, you find that on a ship? nonsense.


You find that on a fleet flagship with a full technical library. Yes! They are in the technical papers and the reports carried with the library. I've seen and read several of the papers and have posted some of there titles to other sections of the board. Remember these libraries were designed to allow the fleet to be as independent as possible with as much information and resources that could be crammed onto the ship.

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no way. cm radar was not a research problem, but a production one.


But were not talking about radar but a detector that can detect the use of cm waves in that range. Once the German's knew that the allies were using that range of scan they quickly began ( within a month ) issuing detectors to scan for those frequencies.

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no way: knowing that the enemy reads you code doesn't say HOW they do that.


Have you seen the detailed briefs that were provided to RN admirals about the Ultra intercepts? They were quite detailed and did describe how it was done. Even down to describing how an RN operation in 1941 was done to figure out the KM mapping system in the North Sea.

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so more delays


Yes, I'm figuring one of the major issues the Axis will have is communications delays. The Allies will have less intel but the AXIS will be hampered by communication issues. trade-offs.

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not really. German exaplnation may be not that the enigma was faulty (something they CAN'T know and won't accept), but that their procedures are or that they have a mole.


That's what the German's though historically but the Ultra intercepts will not allow for that conclusion. Many were decoded as fast if not faster than the German's could. Also the detailed reports and Briefs of how it was done will not allow for this conclusion either( capture of machine, here, code wheel V here...). Thus the German's either improve the complexity of the enigma system as the KM did within the limit that they had to be able to decode other services messages as well. Or they scrap the whole system. As the German's were using the simplest enigma machine they had, and had others with 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, and 20 code wheels built ( being used not just available ) since the early 1930's it would be logical to just improve the whole systems machines.

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and with one bomb I can destroy the whole field...


Ummm, no. It really depends on the field, how big it is and all you really can do is damage it. The Yugoslavian one is actually about 200 miles long and cresent shaped in the northern area following the Hungarian border from Austria to Romania. In the Central area is also a large Shale Oil deposit that German investors wanted to develop back in 1937. They even had the plant designs laid out. The Russians used those plans to build the plant in 1947.

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