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Every defense has a weakness—know yours to protect it; learn your opponents to exploit it.
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As the title suggests, in the "Ship Comparison" video series, we take a certain characteristic, mix up a few ships, add great editing, a dash of unusual perspective, and a vibrant soundtrack according to taste.
Every defense has a weakness—know yours to protect it; learn your opponents to exploit it. This time, our focus is on four powerful battleships and their structural features!
Montana
The Montana-class ships were an evolution of the Iowa-class "fast battleships": they were larger, better armored, and more heavily armed. The main armament was expanded to include twelve 406 mm guns housed in four triple-gun turrets. Preliminary design work commenced even before the United States entered World War II. The attack on Pearl Harbor delayed construction, and the success of aircraft carriers in the Battle of the Coral Sea and Battle of Midway prompted the U.S. to forgo the Montana class in favor of more promising ship types.
Kremlin
The development of the new Project 24 commenced in 1941. Its requirements included dual-purpose artillery instead of secondary guns, enhanced torpedo protection, and reinforced protection for the ship’s fore and aft ends. The ship’s purpose was to destroy surface ships of all types in the open sea and near coastal areas. In 1950, Variant XII of the project was approved; however, the USSR lacked a shipyard with the means to construct a 70,000-ton displacement ship. State authorities had also lost interest in large surface ships by that time.
Grosser Kurfürst
The experience gained from battleships at the beginning of World War II prompted a revision of the ships under construction. It was necessary to improve the horizontal armor while maintaining a draft of 11.5 m for operations in the shallow waters of the North Sea. The new design incorporated a triple bottom and an increased quantity of watertight compartments to enhance protection against underwater explosions. The main armament was upgraded to twelve 420 mm guns. It was planned to lay down ships with the new design in 1942, but the construction needs of the Navy reoriented toward submarines, and new battleships were no longer laid down.
République
In 1939, the construction of additional Richelieu-class battleships was approved. One of the ships was built according to an improved design and received a new arrangement for her main battery guns—one quadruple-gun turret placed on each of her ends. At the same time, larger-caliber guns were in development. If French reconnaissance had received more accurate data on the main battery of the planned German battleships, the shipbuilders would likely have opted to increase the main battery due to the limited size of the dockyards.
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