Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "The Alaska class - Large/Super/Battle/Mega/Hyper/Ultra Cruisers" video.

  1. It's very easy to argue either way, I lean more towards them being large cruisers, but I have to admit that from a doctorine perspective, they very closely fit the role of battlecruiser. Also, if you're less strict about what counts as a battlecruisers to where things like Detusland, Dunkerque and Scharnhorst are battlecruisers due to being designed as fast cruiser killers and cruiser killer killers, then the Alaska would fit nicely into that niche. They had near-battleship firepower, but had the speed to hunt down cruisers and evade larger, more conventional battleships.
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