British battlecruiser design 1935

[alecsandros]

http://www.admirals.org.uk/records/adm/ ... 1-9387.php

From the document:

"2. Following the principle worked to in the case of the HOOD, a battle cruiser’s protection should be the same as that of a battleship. The protection must, therefore, depend on what the decisive fighting range is to be, assuming an equal calibre of gun on either side. The Battle Instructions state 12,000 – 16,000 yards.

3. The argument for increasing this and thereby saving weight is that, with modern control arrangements and air spotting, really effective fire can be produced at greater ranges, say 18,000 – 20,000 yards"

You can also find, attached at the end of the document, several amor efficiency schemes, in scaned format.

Regards,
ALex

[RF]

Looking at the document, there are a lot of questions (without answers) and waffle over armour protection and speed sacrifice without arriving at any definate prescription. In some respects rather like the issue of Hood receiving extra deck protection - it never happened....