Comments by "Bk Jeong" (@bkjeong4302) on "The Suez Campaign and Life in the Royal Navy - From someone who was there!" video.

  1. Weird alt history: At the start of 1914, Britain, Germany, Japan, the US, France, and Italy get all the battleships they built/completed or seriously considered building in WWII, in addition to the capital ships they historically had/were constructing at the start of 1914. Britain gets the five KGVs, Vanguard, and plans for the 1942 iteration of the Lions; Germany gets the Scharnhorsts and Bismarcks plus plans for H-39 through to H-41; Japan gets Yamato and Musashi, an incomplete Shinano, and plans for the last two Yamatos and the A-150s; the US gets all ten fast battleships plus the last two incomplete Iowas and plans for the finalized Montanas; France gets the Dunkerques and the first two Richelieus, plus plans and whatever incomplete parts for Gascogne and the Alsace-class; and Italy gets all three completed Littorios plus the partially completed Impero and plans for the Littorio successors. Assuming that no other ships come across with them, and assuming that international relations remain identical during the leadup to WWI, how would the completed up-time ships be incorporated into the WWI fleets of the various naval powers and would any of the incomplete vessels be completed to enter service?
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  2.  @Knight6831  The British were pretty fast to adopt it, being the second to do so after the Americans….
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  3.  @Knight6831  Which still puts the British ahead of the curve compared to the Germans (who never figured it out), the Japanese, the French, and the Italians (they only started using AoN armour layouts during the Battleship Holiday, and so they didn’t have any capital ships with AoN until WWII, by which point battleships were strategically pointless except outside extremely situational circumstances)
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  4.  @Knight6831  Re-Read what I said. I said that the British were ahead of the Japanese, French, Italians, and especially the Germans in adopting AoN armour layouts, because they were the second nation to do so after the US. The French, Italian and Japanese too longer to get there, and the Germans never figured it out.
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