Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "IJN Kongo - Guide 174" video.

  1. I'm guessing that they were classified as "fast battleships" after reconstruction more as a matter of the IJN retiring the "battlecruiser" designation than to suggest they were actually considered the equal of a modern battleship.
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  2. I still find it somewhat surprising that the Royal Navy didn't look for a way to keep HMS Tiger. Especially since she was retired right when the freak-out of the threat of the Deutschland-class as commerce raiders was happening. Battlecruisers were the perfect counter to fast commerce-raiding cruisers, yet Britain was willing to dispose of one of their only 4 remaining battlecruisers. I can't seen any real chance of the Royal Navy using Tiger as a training ship with the specific plan to remilitarize her in wartime the way Japan did with Hiei. Britain was the only nation that was completely scrupulous about complying with the naval treaties, whereas everybody else looked for loopholes to exploit or in the cases of Italy and Japan just outright cheated. For example, the reason the KGV class had 10 rather than the originally planned 12 guns is that with the planned 3 quad turrets they would exceed the 35,000 ton limit by a mere 500 tons. So the only way Tiger would've been saved from the London Treaty would've been to sacrifice HMS Revenge instead. Given Tiger's greater flexibility and Revenge's lack of potential for further upgrades, I think that would've been a good trade.
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  3.  @tomasotero703  Kirishima is my favorite of the sisters.
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