Scott Kenny
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25mm AA guns? Should I start laughing now?There were "small battleship" project - essentially the idea was, that instead of one 60.000-70.000 ton superbattleship with three triple 16-inch turrets, several smaller, 25.000-35.000 ships, each with several 16-inch guns in one/two turrets could be produced. Several projects were prepared with different main guns arrangement - one dual turret, one triple turret, two dual turrets, one triple and one dual turret, one quadruple turrets.
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(this is the design with one dual 16-inch turret and one quadruple 220-mm turret)
This is post-war, right? Where the USN was looking at 3"/50 automatics as the replacement for Bofors 40mm?
And needing a good 2x the crew to do so, maybe more.The idea was, that 2-3 "small battleships" would engage one USN battleship, using a next generation radar-based fire control system, that would allow them to coordinate fire as well as if all those guns were on single ships. The preliminary calculations showed that enemy battleship would be knocked out before it would manage to disable any one of "small battleships".