Comments by "Todd Webb" (@toddwebb7521) on "The Drydock - Episode 232 (Part 2)" video.

  1. One of these months I'm going to have to ask about the guns at the old county courthouse which iirc are Dalgrens although I'd definitely want to confirm that before asking.
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  2. Well on the misattributing the Fuso and Kongo as being better than they are, when you do not know your enemy's capabilities in an area you have to assume they are equal to your own , so the RN had to assume the Japs had refit QE/Renown level fire control. With 12 14inch guns a Fuso would be a hard fight for a QE assuming equal fire control (which they didn't actually have) and with 8 14 inch guns the Kongo would probably be superior to renown if it had equal fire control.
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  3. If the standards had been refit before the big ultra mega jumbo torpedo bulges they got post pearl harbor the Big 5 (TN and CO classes) had the spare machinery space to get up around QE speed (23-25ish knot) with their pre ultra mega bulge hull form. Some QE speed standards would be as fast or faster than Fuso/Ise which would make the Fuso/Ise more useless than historic. Even Nagato would be questionable for having enough speed advantage to control the range and angles. This could result in some interesting butterflies if the US decided a 23-25 knot standard was fast enough to use in early war 1942.
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