Which warships suit an all-forward main battery

Which ship types should use an all-forward armament layout?

Battleships and cruisers can put their primary battery forward, but secondary weapons still need broader coverage.

Battleships and cruisers are the preferred candidates for an all-forward main battery. That arrangement concerns the primary guns: their secondary weapons remain distributed around the hull. Concentrating the main armament therefore does not make every weapon point ahead. Modern attack submarines provide a separate comparison because their torpedo tubes are mainly forward and they have no equivalent gun broadside.