Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "IJN Satsuma - Guide 314" video.

IJN ship designers: "We shall build the Satsumas with a uniform 12"/45 main battery!" IJN ordnance officer: "Um, guys, we don't have enough 12"/45s to build even one of the Satsumas like that..." IJN ship designers: "Fine, we'll give them each four 12"/45s and make up the difference with pairs of 10-inch guns." A few years later: IJN ordnance officer: "Thank goodness we've finally got enough 12"/45s for a battleship class to use them for a uniform main battery..." IJN ship designers: "We shall build the Kawachis with a uniform 12"/50 main battery!" IJN ordnance officer: "sigh"
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@RedXlV Alternatively, they could've completed the Satsumas with the 10" wing guns as an interim solution and later regunned them with 12" wing turrets once enough guns became available. (Also, using guns and turrets originally meant for other ships to complete the Satsumas as uniform-main-battery ships would've diverted 8 turrets and 24 barrels - remember that their amidships wing turrets would've been twins, not singles.)
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@bkjeong4302 ...they'd be known as satsumas, presumably?
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Given the hilariously-large numbers they were built in and their lightning-fast construction times, why wasn't there a Liberty-ship-based escort-carrier design? They were about the right size, and, if you turned some of the vast cargo holds into extra machinery spaces, you'd've been able to get them up to 14-17 knots (competitive for an escort carrier) simply by doubling or tripling the boiler and engine machinery (and the Liberty ships used machinery that was cheap and easy to produce in massive quantities). Also, could you do a video on the submarines of the American Civil War?
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Would they actually've been that similar? Even with just a 2-inch caliber difference, the Satsumas' 12" shells were still nearly two thirds again as heavy as their 10" shells.
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