Comments by "Todd Webb" (@toddwebb7521) on "The Washington Naval Treaty - The parties, the motives, the negotiations, the loophole abuse..." video.

@crimist6873 by the time they dropped out they was building Yamato
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If Britain had scrapped Hood in order to get a third Nelson do you think they would have held onto Tiger over one of the Iron Dukes due to the shortage of battlecruisers?
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@arivael something that may have made a difference on treaty battleships if someone had tried it would be a 8 guns in 3 turrets arrangement. Making the superfiring turret a twin instead of a triple would save a good bit of weight having a narrower turret and barbette and a marginally shorter citidel.
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How would it have changed things if the clauses about not selling the non retained ships only applied to the 13 point something and up ships?
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@jamesd3472 abusing future knowledge hindsight that Hood gets one shoted I suppose so, because a ship that doesn't take a golden bb is going to be better than one that does by virtue of doing SOMETHING But that is abusing knowledge that Hood is lost. In theory a Hood that doesn't go boom is more useful than a Nelson as the enemy doesn't have the option to Nope out of there if they don't like the match.
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