Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "USS Lexington - Guide 046 - Battlecruisers (Human Voice)" video.

  1. 6:13 I would say that the Lexington-class battlecruisers being cancelled by the Washington Naval Treaty was very much a win for the US Navy. As I've mentioned before, the Navy dodged a real bullet by not getting these ships as designed. The most amazing thing, though, is the sheer idiocy of refusing to build them as fast battleships because it would make the Standard Types obsolete. This would be like if in 1903, Germany was given the blueprints to HMS Dreadnought and her steam turbine engines, and said "Nah fam, we'll just keep building pre-dreadnoughts with triple expansion engines." Hell, even without the existence of HMS Hood, a good case could be made that Queen Elizabeth and Nagato rendered the Standard Types obsolete.
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  2. Yeah, the US Navy dodged a bullet by not having these ships in battlecruiser configuration.
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  3. This would be a "paper ship" in more ways than one. Tissue paper for armor.
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  4.  @kobeh6185  To an extent. But Amagi's 250mm belt armor isn't nearly as pitiful as Lexington's 178mm.
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  5. The US Navy pretty clearly stuck with the Standard Type paradigm of 21 knot type speed for about 5 years too long, with the Queen Elizabeth and Nagato classes obviously having a large tactical advantage from their superior speed. The US Navy seems to have figured this out (at least to an extent) since the 1920 South Dakota-class was upgraded to 23 knots. But during the building holiday of the Washington Naval Treaty, they never tried to increase the speed of the Standards. I was wondering, without doing an obscenely expensive refit that lengthened the hulls, exactly how much extra speed would it even have been possible to get out of the Standard Types?
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