Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "USS New Mexico - Guide 290" video.

  1. I notice you didn't mention that Idaho's secondary armament after refit was unique among all battleships in having 5"/38s in single instead of twin turrets.
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  2. I'm assuming that there wasn't a lot of interest since USS Mississippi wasn't really a battleship anymore and was rendered rather ugly by her conversion to a gun and missile testbed.
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  3.  @robertf3479  There were 4 ships out of the Standards that got that "standard" refit template: Nevada, Tennessee, California, and West Virginia. In addition to the South Dakota style superstructure, all 4 of them had large torpedo bulges than any of the other Standards received...which rendered them too wide to fit in the Panama Canal, and also reduced their top speed slightly to around 20-20.5 knots.
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