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U mean SMS Seydlitz? xDDD

And who can dare to abuse Barhnew when he got such "things"? Pirates of Caribbean? Oh-ho-ho... H-44 can easy kick Kraken back to his mom. 🎃🎃🎃

H-44/D-44 (year of project 1939)... displacement 135,800 long tons(empty) and 142600 long tons full. 4x2 SK 53cm/52, 10-12x2 128mm and etc. D-51/H-51 (year of project 1940) ...displacement 140k log tons(empty) and 165k long tos full... 3x3 SK 53cm/52, 8x2 128mm, 3x3 SK C/25 15cm/60. How many people can tell if they know?

T and Double-T protections is much more than NATO-Double Heavy. It's a two horizontal protection layers and one vertical, all can be also sloped.

That's why more and detailed customization of ship and armament needen. Otherways... lads I'll go and make mah tea, crunch some crisps and watch an episode of Street Sharks, while main cal is reloading.

Beaufs are ground based planes as Mosquitoes. But can carry up to 3000kg bomb or two fine torpedoes. These things can put end to your escort forces. Only worst if there is pack of Do-217 up your tail. And the big slow, well armed sailing target lovers we have extremely BAD NEWS... Some times on airfields graze some B-17, B-24, B-29, Avro Lancasters, Pe-8 and so on big flying cows that can carry an up to 12 tons heavy goo, which hit is equal to 50k instant red damage.🎃

5inchers is kind a Universal Guns both anti-torpedo-destroyer-plane guns... but with poor range. CL's for banging TB/DD case used widely an 6" guns, much more effective tho.

Around 4200 long tons full displacement to carry an two geared ST 75k shp each easely reaching 40-42 knots, 2x2 or x3 from 5" up to 139-140mm guns, and 4x5 or x6 tubes Torpedo Launchers with Type 93 610mm mod 2/3 torpedoes. And you still got place to squeeze there 4x4 40mm bofors, radar, sonar and two Hedgehogs 🎃 Just smart placement of modules in a displacement... nothing monstrous. We didn't touch submarines yet 🎃 That will be real fun. Kai-Dai X with 8-10 Type 93 torpedoes fore and 4-6 aft kekekeke 🎃

Rrrrrrr.... ... bang! R.I.P.

ROFLed... sorry. U probably compare an inflatable boat with an 50k long-tons monster with a 5 degrees roll once in a 5 minutes.

As it is in Real Life.🎃

Can you show as an ship stats and displacement. Please?

Actually if Germany started to invest more in leveling an U-Boat action range, operative depth... like in 1939 fully going to produce an Oceanic Subs in same amounts like they did with VII's... Atlantic WT would be already not operate-able and not navigate-able in early 1942 till the end of a WW2. And in this case CV turns not into an weapon, but into a tasty target for subs. Which means that only CA's and BB's would be relatively safe to operate in those water due their damage sustain option. Plus many forgot that on Atlantic CV's does not have much effort as on Pacific, poor weather conditions and weak radars of those times.

If weather allows (WW2) HMS Furious and KMS Scharnhorst Weather conditions, radar surveillance range, enemy sub in the waters... example HMS Royal Arc. Alone? Any example? IJN Yamato was sunk by 3 hour battle where 8 Heavy CV Essex class around and against that. For example attempt to sunk KMS Tirpitz via CV airstrike failed badly in good for Tirpitz AA's. Attempt of IJN Hiryu to sank USS South Dakota also failed badly in good of Dakota AA's. In theory, in practice... highly depends on a "contact" range. All arguments you throw at... I mostly agree, but in theory, in practice they'r looked awful in results. IRL just two BB,s where sunk during Air Raid Action from CV's - IJN Musashi and IJN Yamato. And both in full overwhelming CV domination in combat situation and quantities.

Already done 😺

Like all the modern MBT armor... but with larger space between, and much thicker plates that turned into all around horizontal protection instead of spaced-side protection of a tanks. Where (talking about ships) the first plate is thickest one to charge a shell fuse, second is a bit thinner to sustain explosion and shreds.

Cause it's a cheap-tech... but very-very dangerous for both, a carrier and the target. Type-93 was famous by their range and warhead weight.

30 inches is a 406mm 1200kg APC shell penetration on 15 miles. Monsters like 17" or 18" heavy-super heavy APC or even CPC just will ignore 12" of Krupp-4 in a distances around 28-30 miles. It's an obsolete different protection scheme against such heavy shells with their penetration drag which works to bounce a shell in a lay trajectory or detonate safely on a steeper one inside an armor sandwich.

Hmmm... I actually think it would be fun. To go Fleet vs Fleet. Yes, it takes time. Giant battleship that fires once in 80 seconds? Did you heard about Battle of Jutland? Did you heard that brits and germans went up to salvo in 20 seconds fire rate on their battleships and battle cruiser from their 12", 13,5" and 15"guns? And which years these are? Exactly, 1915-1916.

Nice photoshop'ere) Actually HMS Magnificent was an J3 and I3 design of an battle cruiser.

There is an example of T-Protection and well known to all Big Gun Ship lovers... USS Iowa class. T-Protection is made for a long range shootout. Double-T is made for both. Other is full armored deck scheme, but still need an armor slopes for internal protection. It does not throw armor away, it's just relocate it to meet an incoming shell in a worst for penetration angles.

o7 post you made. + But, there is an Protection Scheme that most forgot... so caller T-Protection or Double-T Protection, also known as Citadel-Deck Sandwich. What it means... You got an 8"-10" main deck armor, 4"-7" slopes, and average 5" underdeck, and 6" to 7" sloped citadel walls. How it work? Large heavy shell pen's an heavy armored deck but ignites and explode between Main Deck and Under Deck. Same with a "side-kick", heavy AP pens a slope but detonate in a bulkhead with integrated bulge before hitting Citadel Wall. Such protection scheme does not obviously need an conventional Main Armor Belt.

The thing is... which 17" and 18" AR shells we talking about? The lightest is Japanese 1460kg and only A-120 48cm gun and A-150 51cm gun have heavier APC 1770kg and 1910kg accordingly. US 18" APC has weight 1746kg, Brits have an 1506kg APC shell for 18"/45 and APC 1880kg round for 18"/40 gun and also an 1814kg HE round for the same gun.Russians developed 2 APC rounds for 18"/42 and 18"/45, firs was equal british 1506kg and the next was 1580kg round. French 17" is a bit different... there where few guns and rounds, for 431mm/45 Mil1932(36) was made an 1380kg APC round, but french also have an 450mm/45Mil1921 gun with APC round that was 1680kg heavy with a huge muzzle velocity around 850m/s, which is during it's cal. is a most penetrating round until german 53cm/52 Gerat 36 AP round that weight an 2200kg with muzzle velocity of 820m/s. Most of you lads know such game as WOWS, and heard about "Rule 14:3"? IRL it's a... pure bolox. Due to weight drag(kinetic impulse of a shell) there is no thin around 40mm armor on the planet, Earth under any angle that can stop an 1460kg APC shell of Yamato, and we not talking about american 1746kg heavy AP round. Nothing less than 406mm cemented armor Mk.4(equal to in game Krupp IV) angled on 20 degrees outside flip can stop such a supersonic wagon full of iron. So I agree with Absolute0CA in that.

Actually Oxy-Peroxide torpedoes are not just Japanese... such work even successful was made by Brits, Germans, French, Italians and US, and Russians. Btw Americans and Russians started those works in early 1900's.

Chose High TNT and Heavy AP... works well to me some time even 16" cause an +1600 DMG, the 17" and 18" does even more. Actually the best Tower ain't work as it is, gun placement stats are also do a trick.