Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "IJN Hiyo - Guide 334" video.

  1.  @markbodewig8748 No. Even if you grant KM all the fuel they would have needed for whatever they built, they forces that countered them would remain: Allied radar, air cover, submarine effectiveness, and code-breaking intelligence. An extra three 11” or 15” gun turrets and a handful more cruisers wouldn’t have altered that balance. At best it would have given more KM sailors the opportunity to sit in a fjord for 18 months. At worst more KM heavy ships would have been destroyed on the open sea by RN or USN forces, including possibly the unbuilt Iowas or even Montana examples, if the Allied navies interpreted additional KM surface forces as justification to continue building battleships.
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  2.  @hmmm4844  Yes and yes. Many ships designed before late 30s didn’t anticipate the enormous increase in AA outfit that a war would bring, and the additional crew presented problems both for mass of bodies and volume required for them to eat and sleep.
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  3. Get out.
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