Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?" video.

27:10 "Our battlecruisers can't repel firepower of that magnitude!"
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@nenad8845 Germany wasn't just talking about it, they were actually in the process of making that upgrade to Gneisenau. The bow had been lengthened and reinforced (both to make sure the heavier turrets wouldn't result in a loss of freeboard, and because the original bow had been badly wrecked by a British bomber raid), and by January 1943 she was just about ready to have the 380mm twin turrets installed. But Hitler ordered the work cancelled, because the Battle of the Barents Sea a few days earlier (in which Admiral Hipper and Lützow failed to do any damage to a convoy and were driven off by HMS Sheffield and HMS Jamaica) made him conclude that the surface fleet was useless and no more resources should be spent on it. Basically, he threw a tantrum.
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Possibly the completion of Kentucky in particular would get added impetus. But Illinois (being much further from completion) might instead have had her hull stripped to replace the most damaged parts of New Jersey.
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Against Taffy 3, Yamato scored the longest-range damaging shot ever fired by one ship against another. It wasn't a direct hit on USS White Plains, but the near miss temporarily crippled her and warped her keel. And straddling a moving target at 32 km range is very good gunnery indeed. There's a good chance the next salvo would've put White Plains down. The gunners clearly had the range dialed in on her. But Kurita mistook it for a direct hit and thought the billowing smoke was a boiler explosion, so they were ordered to move on to the next target.
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@antoniolabudovic128 Possibly because Dunkirk was the hometown of famed privateer Jean Bart? Naming her after Jean Bart himself wasn't an option because when Dunkerque was under construction, the 1911 battleship of that name was still in active service. It was only after Dunkerque's launch that Jean Bart's material condition was deemed to bad to be worth further refits, resulting in her being hulked and renamed Océan, thus freeing up the name for the Richelieu-class battleship.
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@stevevalley7835 What if they removed the Q turrets and the associated barbettes and magazines from Tosa and Kaga? That might've brought them at least close to the 35,000 ton limit. It would render them rather inefficient, given that big empty space between the superstructure and X turret and now being bigger than Nagato and Mutsu without any accompanying increase in capabilities. But would that have been enough to let Japan complete the Tosas under this revised treaty? If such a thing had been agreed to, at the very least I suspect Britain would've demanded getting to build a 3rd Nelson, and the US to complete Washington in addition to Colorado and West Virginia. Actually, that probably would be the demands in exchange for Japan getting to keep a partially-disarmed Kaga alone. This being the IJN, naturally they would've put that turret, barbette, and gun barrels into storage to reinstall in the future. Though using the cleared-out space for more engines and boilers to turn Kaga into a 30+ knot fast battleship able to keep pace with the Kongos would also be a possibility.
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40:45 I presume you meant Mark 15 torpedoes? Mark 14 was exclusive to submarines.
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@lonjohnson5161 The 2 turrets aft, 1 forward layout was for weight distribution purposes. If you look at her from the side, you'll see the forward turret and the superfiring aft turret are at the same deck level, while the aftmost turret is lower. Rearranging the turrets to have 2 forward and 1 aft would've been too much topweight for such a small cruiser to deal with. The designers knew this A-XY layout was less flexible than AB-X would be. They tried to compensate via the weird setup of neither of the aft turrets being directly on the centerline. X turret was offset to port and Y turret was offset even more to starboard. This resulted in wider arcs of fire, especially against targets to starboard. However, the experiment with offset turrets was deemed a failure that structurally weakened the ships (which were lightly built in general to keep the size as small as it was), and the follow-on Leipzig-class (while retaining the A-XY layout) had all 3 turrets centerline.
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