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Originally Posted by Al Schlageter
Some destroyers and light cruisers is not the RN Fleet. There was no need to bring in the big guns, the BBs. The LW certainly didn't have naval night fighting capability.
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it is all relative, you have to bear in mind that losing and replacing a battleship is not as replacing a tank. The risk of losing so much tonnage of battleship to sink landing crafts or motorboats would have been high.
The biggest disadvantage with the use of the Navy is that you're putting a lot at stake, and the Luftwaffe would have surely quickly found a way to do night operations. Plus let's not forget that the Kriegsmarine could have poured in the soup some of their U-Boote to make things more thrilling at night.. it could have gone awfully different.
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Operation Merkur was a success because of British mistakes and was very close to not being a successful operation.
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Exactly, just like the Battle of Britain, but it was the Germans who made the mistakes this time.