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Cruiser armour provides less protection for a concentrated magazine group than battleship armour.
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Two superfiring positions are proposed as a way to shorten Tone's gun group.
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An established Nelson design lineage might have encouraged an all-forward County-type cruiser, but the Royal Navy retained conventional heavy-cruiser layouts.
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Exercises rewarded attacks on prestigious capital ships, while wartime attackers had reasons to destroy vulnerable escorts first.
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British cruiser studies included 9.2-inch guns before the treaty's eight-inch limit.
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The Battle class concentrated heavy 4.5-inch mounts forward to make room for torpedoes, anti-submarine weapons, and increasingly important anti-aircraft systems.
From Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament ·
Upper-deck 4.5-inch mounts reduced the weight and space penalty of restoring main-battery fire aft.
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Limits on archival access shaped the national coverage and scope of a study of the modern destroyer.
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Soviet aviation cruisers put missiles forward and aircraft aft, giving surface groups both heavy shipborne weapons and their own fighter or helicopter cover.
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Type 42 and Type 23 warships show how forward weapons and aft helicopter facilities continue the same space-management logic.
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The absence of airborne early warning is the principal weakness identified for Type 42 operations in the Falklands.
From Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament ·
Small drones could disable exposed sensors without sinking a ship, forcing designers to consider redundancy and changing defensive weapons.
From Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament ·
A builder's proposed Type 23 variant would lengthen the hull, add an aft Sea Wolf launcher, and carry sixteen Harpoons.
From Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament ·
A mission kill could disable a warship's capabilities while leaving a difficult attribution problem.
From Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament ·
Public discussions suggest stronger continuing attention to electronic warfare in Western navies than in other services, though the comparison remains tentative.
From Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament ·
Type 45 and Kirov concentrate major missile systems forward while propulsion and aviation occupy the centre and stern, without inheriting a gun battery's blind arc.
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Hull height and raised protection around forward weapons can help keep them usable in heavy seas.
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Richelieu's quadruple-turret difficulties weaken its comparison with Littorio and motivate a proposed three-triple forward battery.
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A February 2022 argument links Kirov affordability to continued energy sales and changing international prices.
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Designers feared that one magazine hit could disable an entire three-turret forward battery, although any deep magazine penetration would threaten the whole ship.
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Kirov's mission is that of a powerful independent cruiser whose nuclear endurance supports global presence without an extensive overseas basing network.
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The structure between Richelieu's aft six-inch turrets housed its aircraft, linking the secondary-battery arrangement to the ship's aviation facilities.
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Shell reliability and gunnery accuracy are separate: a heavy projectile can damage by kinetic impact even without detonating, while most rounds simply miss.
From Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament ·
A game engagement illustrates how propulsion damage and disabled aft guns can let an attacker approach through a restricted firing arc.
From Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament ·
An 18-inch Washington Treaty ceiling could require larger hulls and produce different design responses from the major naval powers.
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Real British gun development underlies hypothetical 18-inch Agincourt and Hood designs with different structural demands.
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An established 18-inch fleet would strengthen Britain's negotiating position while still requiring enough hulls and suitable dockyards.
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The counterfactual links larger guns to industrial costs and judges 20-inch weapons too slow to justify their greater calibre.
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An accelerated hypothetical 18-inch Agincourt could have served as Jellicoe's flagship and threatened older German dreadnoughts at Jutland.
From Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament ·
The opening argument is that HMS Tiger's unusual six-inch secondary battery made sense for a battlecruiser intended to pursue comparable German ships.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
A reconstruction of Tiger's machinery connects mixed oil-and-coal firing, turbines, bulkheads, steering, and underwater protection to her performance.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
Reconstructing Tiger's 13.5-inch battery and three funnels reveals the spatial compromises behind the ship's distinctive silhouette.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
Eight- to nine-inch barbettes and four torpedo launchers show how Tiger combined protected heavy-gun mountings with a torpedo attack capability.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
Published 28-, 29-, and 30-knot figures show why one specification should not be accepted without comparing its source.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
Tiger's armour scheme leads into the ship's key distinguishing feature: twelve single six-inch guns, six on a broadside.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
Von der Tann and especially Moltke frame the 11-inch-gun German battlecruisers that an improved Queen Mary such as Tiger was meant to hunt.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
Wing turrets, substituted secondary guns and torpedoes, machinery, armour, speed, and endurance turn the German build into a transparent Seydlitz-like approximation.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
The simulated German ship's four-inch substitutes suit destroyer defence, while Tiger's six-inch guns are presented as weapons for fighting larger opponents at closer ranges.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
Tiger's staff spaces and armament support a hypothetical Second World War role as a flagship hunting raiders in places such as the South Atlantic.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
A preference for 14-inch guns is balanced against the Royal Navy's practical reasons for retaining a proven 13.5-inch weapon and ammunition system.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
The simulation permits a German wing turret to fire across the deck without showing the blast damage that constrained the real arrangement.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
Tiger's superior speed is used to hold the simulated German opponent at a range suited to her heavier main battery.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
The research method starts with the strategic and operational reasons a navy chose to build a particular kind of warship.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
Tiger's sea-control mission can require her to remain in contact despite having the speed to withdraw.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
Hits around a battlecruiser's aft control position and funnels could degrade ranging, engine performance, and speed without penetrating a turret or belt.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
At battlecruiser ranges, crews could be aiming at the estimated base of a smoke plume rather than a clearly visible enemy hull.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
A run that appears to favour the German stereoscopic rangefinder is balanced against similar simulated battles in which Tiger wins.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·
A missed long-range shot illustrates why torpedoes were normally held until closer range unless darkness and a predictable target course improved the firing solution.
From HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion ·