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How Hood's armour related to British battleships

Hood's protection followed a broad hybrid of Queen Elizabeth- and Revenge-class practice, spreading armour extensively while thinning it in selected areas.

BattlecruisersHMS HoodNaval ArmourQueen Elizabeth Class BattleshipsRevenge Class Battleships
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Question

Did Hood use the same armour scheme as the Queen Elizabeth class?

Short answer

Broadly, Hood used a hybrid of Queen Elizabeth- and Revenge-class protection, with armour spread widely but thinner in some places.

Notes

Hood's armour scheme was a hybrid of the Queen Elizabeth and Revenge classes. The comparison concerns the overall distribution of protection rather than identical plate thickness at every location. Armour extended across much of the ship in the manner of the preceding British battleship generations. Some areas were thinner, reflecting the compromises required by Hood's size, speed, and layout. This separates a shared protective philosophy from a claim that the ships carried exactly the same weight or geometry of armour.