This deliberately extreme Admiral-class development carries twelve 18-inch guns and can make around 32-34 knots. The Royal Navy would be unlikely to accept a successor slower than the Renown class, making propulsion as important to the concept as gun calibre. The imagined ships would also be political objects because their scale could equal a smaller country's annual budget. The design exercise shows how speed, armament, prestige, and affordability interact in capital-ship planning.
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An 18-inch-gun Hood as a strategic spectacle
A viewer-inspired design exercise imagines four enlarged Hood successors whose firepower, speed, and cost would advertise national power before they fired a shot.