Comments by "Todd Webb" (@toddwebb7521) on "KMS Deutschland/Lutzow - Guide 212" video.

@MarcStjames-rq1dm https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZnnj3J4Lw8 tallboy explosion
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At least it had better luck than Blücher
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Is there any action a conventional cruiser like a Hipper or Königsburg etc participated in that may have turned out better if it had been an overgunned Deutschland instead?
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@kemarisite http://www.navweaps.com/index_nathan/Penetration_Germany.php has 11" 52 Deutschland guns and for Hood it was built before the super duper über British armour was developed so you'd probably want to look at something more like American or japanese armor steel than British, that is like KGV and Vanguard only
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@Thomas-gs4yq well the Royal navy may be many things but stupid isn't one of them and it wouldn't just be PoW and Hood if the Tirpitz and both Deutschlands where along for the ride.
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@kemarisite and the assumption about penetrating just the 5" strake is based on the hood exploding range in the upper teens of yards, PoW closed to around 9k yards(estimates vary from 8,800-9,400) before turning away because Prinz Eugen was setting up a torpedo run if it had continued to close. at 9,000 yards I'd imagine most armour on both ships would be vulnerable to a 11" hit if Hood hadn't suffered sudden existence failure
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@Billy_Annizarry if they have up patrols and see the Scharnhorsts before they get there they could simply nope out of there and launch after in a safer position. If they don't have up patrols or patrols are too half added and miss them it takes a hour to launch a carrier strike it's not press Kidō Butai button and the sky darkens with aircraft instantly. So it could be hilariously better if all goes well or a bunch more escorts go down along with glorious if they still manage to mess it up.
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tokul76 well at least one battle a Hipper would have been better for is river Platte. It would have been able to nope out of there and not fight the 3 british cruisers.
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@jcalvert6666 scharnhorst had oversized turrets that was bigger than strictly necessary for triple 11s for a planned future upgrade to twin 15s. The Deutschland class was actually made for triple 11s. It wasn't big enough for twin 15s.
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@usssouthdakota5541 iirc they was around 22 knots with coal fired boilers, so they may have gotten around 24 knots with oil fired so similar to a Queen Elizibeth. It wouldn't be fast enough for commerce raiding but I'm sure it could have come in handy during the Norway campaign and any of the shore bombardment the Schliesen and Schleswig-holstein got into historically they could have done better.
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