Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "HMS Tiger (1945) - Guide 219" video.

Tiger is the odd name out. Because tigers have never been native to Europe.
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It was named after Robert Blake, who pretty much made England into the world's premiere naval power.
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@WALTERBROADDUS Blake was one of Britain's greatest admirals. Whenever a Royal Navy ship is named after a person, the vast majority of the time it's either a royal, a general, or an admiral.
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@Tomato News Network I doubt the Regia Marina would've reacted well to be placed under the command of the Kriegsmarine, a navy about half their size.
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They did consider replacing the Type 45 destroyers' 4.5-inch gun with a 155mm. But that fell victim to budget cuts in 2010.
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@UNSCForwardontodawn Given Tiger and Blake each had only 2 6-inch guns, I would expect them to fare poorly against Belgrano's 15 6-inchers. The Tiger-class with their autoloading guns could achieve a significantly faster reload than was possible on Belgrano's manually-loaded guns, but not enough to make up for such a large disparity in barrel count. Now if they were in their original configuration, I'd give Tiger and Blake together pretty good odds. 8x QF 6-inch Mk N5 is is a good match in firepower to 15x American 6-inch Mark 16, and Tiger and Blake would have better fire control and better crews. But cutting their firepower in half with the conversion to helicopter cruisers changed everything.
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That's because they're using turrets that were intended for a larger ship, but thanks to postwar budget cuts simply used the hulls for incomplete Swiftsure-class cruisers (basically the Crown Colony class with slight upgrades). There simply wasn't room to put more than 2 turrets, not while still having the superstructure and fire control systems.
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There were already an HMS Cougar, HMS Puma, HMS Lynx, and HMS Leopard when these ships entered service. HMS Panther was free (because the sister ship of the above-mentioned frigates had just been sold to India), though.
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