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Churchill agreed with that sentiment. During his second stint as First Lord of the Admiralty (1939-1940), he seriously pushed for super-heavy cruisers with 9.2" guns. If you play World of Warships, Drake and Goliath in the British heavy cruiser line are loosely based on those design studies.
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Not if you build a giant cruiser with part of your capital ship tonnage. Which is something that France actually considered doing. One of the early design studies that eventually led to the Dunkerque-class was for a 17,500 ton "battleship" with 305mm guns in two forward quad turrets, a top speed of 35 knots, and armored to protect against 203mm guns (it doesn't seem to have been listed exactly how thick this armor would be, but a belt of around 180mm seems likely). They ended up deciding that while this would do quite well in chasing down and destroying Italian heavy cruisers, the armor was insufficient to guarantee stopping the Deutschland-class's 283mm guns. As such, Dunkerque ended up designed at 26,500 tons (still far below the 35,000 limit), with two quad 330mm guns, 29.5 knot top speed, and 225mm belt. (In practice, Dunkerque actually achieved 31 knots.)
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23:30 With regard to a dreadnought with larger than 6" guns, there actually were at least a couple of designs with very large secondaries, though in both cases they existed only on paper. So Two of the earliest designs for what became the Austro-Hungarian Tegetthoff-class (Vorprojekt I and Vorprojekt II) had 4x2 30.5cm main guns and either 10x1 or 4x2 19cm secondaries. In those forms they were arguably only pseudo-dreadnoughts. Ultimately, Vorprojekt VIII (4x3 30.5cm and 10x1 15cm) formed the basis of the Tegetthoff-class http://www.viribusunitis.ca/bb-bc-pre-designs-vu There's also a few to be found among the many designs proposed by Armstrong for Brazil in the process that eventually led to Rio de Janeiro/HMS Agincourt. Design 686 (designed with the direct input of a Brazilian admiral) called for 4x2 16"/45 main guns and 3x2 9.4"/50 secondaries. At one point this was actually expected to be the ship Brazil was going to order in 1911. Meaning that the most powerful of the super-dreadnoughts (at least until the Colorado and Nagato classes) would've been in part a throwback to pre-dreadnought design. https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/the-brazilian-dreadnoughts-1904-1914/ https://stefsap.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/sistema-pugliese-da-dg-231.jpg https://stefsap.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/sistema-pugliese-da-dg-291.jpg https://stefsap.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/sistema-pugliese-da-dg-301.jpg
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@Tuning3434 The origin of the 9.2" gun paper ships in World of Warships was Winston Churchill's fever dream. Though the Tier 10 Goliath's 12 guns really should be in 3 quad turrets instead of 4 triples, as that's what the actual design study called for.
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