Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "USS Alaska - Guide 105 (Extended)" video.
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17:20 - Going by that line of reasoning, though, you'd have to exclude most if not all of the German battlecruisers (the comparison is trickier for the first few due to differences in turret layout), since they generally kept the number of main guns the same as on their battleship contemporaries, but lagged significantly behind the battleships in main-gun caliber, in the same manner as the Alaskas (the later classes by quite a bit; the last German battlecruiser class to enter service, the Derfflinger class, had 8 12-inch main guns, the same number of guns as on their battleship contemporaries, the Bayern class, but with 80% of the caliber of the latters' 15-inch main guns, while the Alaska class, with 9 12-inch guns, had the same number of main guns, but a main-gun caliber 75% that of, the Iowa class, with their 9 16-inch main guns). If you're going to put the Alaska class into the "large cruiser" bin rather than the "battlecruiser" bin based on their having the same number of main guns as their contemporary battleships but making those guns smaller in caliber (instead of keeping the main guns the same caliber as on the battleships but reducing the number of those guns carried), that net would also sweep most to all of the Kaiser's battlecruisers into the "large cruiser" bin.
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