Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "South American Dreadnoughts - The Race Is On!" video.

In the end it didn't matter much, on account of Chile not fighting any wars during the 20th century. But it strikes me that they really should've just bought back Almirante Cochrane and kept her as an aircraft carrier. That would've given them the prestige of fielding a type of warship that their rivals lacked, after all. Oh, and IIRC the main reason that Fore River was able to give a lower bid than any of the British shipyards for the Argentine dreadnoughts was that steel prices in America were much lower than in Britain at the time.
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Do you have any more details about this? Replacing 305mm guns with 356mm doesn't seem particularly feasible. At least not on a 1-for-1 basis. And if it was a proposal to replace each pair of 305mm twin turrets with a 356mm twin, that would've probably been considered an unacceptably low overall barrel count.
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