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Reading various posts on the forum, I've seen 3 points of view regarding's Bismarck's class status quo in the BB realm: 1. Very good ship, good design, impressive toughness, good speed, very good artillery (range, rate of fire, precision), "best ship in the Atlantic" 2. Good ship, good sp...

lwd wrote:14 ships massing 454,000 tons
92 15" guns and 9 16" guns
Single salvo throw weight 215,160 lbs

^Also looks like you're missing 9x16"

...Which is why the USN design board recognized this and proceeded to change the design doctrine in which would have been their "ultimate" design: the Montanas. ...A cross section of the Montana show how deep this transformation in criteria went... ...How can the US design and built an ap...

However, in your comparison chart I believe you have compared trial speeds for other ships with what you consider to be an Iowa class ship's actual capability in the middle of a deployment. That doesn't seem to be a fair comparison to me. I would also toss in that most of the trials those numbers w...

"...The American ships of the South Dakota and Iowa classes, which are not shown in the Table, had protection against diving shell which in the case of the former ship was worse than that of the Italian ships, and in the latter, better than the British ships..." Also, from the same source...

shortly afterwards the Admiralty began preliminary design work on 35,000 ton ships with 16 inch guns, but with no great enthusiasm, because it was thought that a well balanced 16 inch ship could not be produced on that displacement. This, gentlemen, say a lot of the ships under construction on the ...

Karl Heidenreich wrote:Yamato wasn´t ready for December 10th. They would have need to send a Nagato Class which would have been outgunned by the more modern G3 or N3.

Or a KII or Unnamed No. 13 class Battleship assuming Japan also completed it's pre-treaty programs.

Needless to say, the design requirements for new ships were based upon a detailed study of war experience, together with examination of the available details of foreign construction; including that of the German Navy. (The German battleship Baden received a particularly detailed examination after b...

Also is quite interesting the issue of the re floating of Baden for inspection by RN. It seems that German naval tehnique, so heavily denigrated in this forum, was quite much higher in it´s standards than previously acknowledged. Just for the record... Out of curiosity how much "German Naval T...