The battlecruiser, as a concept, died and ended with Hood the next generation battlecruisers died at the WNT. No one who actually designed it called it a battlecruiser the appellation of the battlecruiser is applied after the fact, ignoring that it does not meet the criteria of a battlecruiser (it does not have battleship guns and cruiser speed, and is far smaller than its contemporary US Battleship by design, the Iowa the closest contemporary by armament, the Scharnhorst class, used cruiser armament for its main armament). The growth in tonnage was in order to gain the 9 guns, which would be roughly equivalent to 18 8" guns in terms of required space (a 12 8" gun vessel being roughly equivalent to 6 12" guns in design schemes). The early concepts for Alaska included designs which would essentially be an enlarged Buffalo, before the 12" gun was decided upon. Well, when it has a cruiser hull, a cruiser torpedo system, a cruiser armor scheme, a cruiser aircraft hanger, a cruiser gun layout (primary and secondary), a cruiser rangefinder, a cruiser rudder, a carrier propulsion unit, and the only design element it shares with battleships is some elements of the superstructure (mostly forward), the triple skin, and the tall side armor.Īnd it has a similar cost profile to cruisers per ton, not battleships, and it was the result of a cruiser design program, specifically the sister program to the program that is represented in Buffalo. A battlecruiser is a battlecruiser, no matter what you call it, fam.
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