HMS Furious provides a historical scale check for the proposal to mount twin 18-inch guns on a roughly 6,000-ton light cruiser. Furious was much larger and was designed for only two single, cut-down 18-inch weapons. The comparison shows how mounting weight and firing stress constrain a hull as much as nominal calibre. The game proposal therefore helps explain why a battleship turret cannot simply be treated as interchangeable equipment.
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What HMS Furious reveals about 18-inch-gun limits
HMS Furious is used to explain why a light-cruiser-sized hull could not absorb the weight and firing stresses of a twin 18-inch battleship turret.