Comments by "AtomicBabel" (@AtomicBabel) on "The Drydock - Episode 067" video.

  1.  me hee  sadly, minced sailors are faster to replace than ships 🙁. Seydlitz had almost all her turrets knocked out and was practically awashed at the bow, yet rejoined the fleet in 6 months (with replacement meat). Can't build a new battle cruiser in 6 months.
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  2. The follow on to Atlanta Class, the Juneau Class (the second one, CL- 119) and the Worchester Class did almost exactly that, except more drastically. The Juneaus had the 2 closest to the ends turrets on the weather deck.
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  3. w o o o w
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  4. And the USN does admit that it's the first tumble home design in 100 years.
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  5. Looks like the designers and with user feedback, decided that having the ability to fire all forward turrets directly forward at short range targets to not be that necessary. Also could be that it was not very tactically useful and worth the tradeoff in topside weight and moment.
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