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Comments by "Todd Webb" (@toddwebb7521) on "The Drydock - Episode 178" video.
Well if an alternate 2nd London treaty had made 12" the treaty limit in the 1930s they would have been something more like Alaska class 12" guns than pre WWI 12" guns.
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@Alex-cw3rz well although the penetration is there with 14" guns for Alaska 12" and even Scharnhorst 11" they still have the problem of their bursting charge being puny in comparison to a 14" and with a 28k ton or so limit in that iteration of the treaty you aren't going to be able to put turret farm amounts of guns on it if you want decent armour. If you absolutely had to design one I'd say make it with triples or Quads so you can up gun it to 14s if the treaty collapses. No twins unless you make them intentionally wide enough to get twin 14s even though they are twin 12s
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@Alex-cw3rz the proposal to get 12" limit also put tonnage down to like 28k. If you had a 35k limit well 12 12s in 3 quads that can easily become triple 14s or twin 16s FTW
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Well with the tiger instead of Iron Duke as training vessel putting it back in service as a battle cruiser is just one option, carrier conversion is another. There was also the 13.5" KGV Centurion that was a remote control target ship so it could have been Princess Royal or Lion instead if the British govt had thought of this gaming the treaties. The British military was still using the 13.5 as coastal batteries and railway guns in WWII so they are still having to keep stocks of 13.5" shells whether there's any on ships or not.
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