Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "MN Alsace (NB) - Guide 181" video.

  1. Quad's are love; Quad's are life :D . Besides the never built Sextuple Turrets of the Tillmanns', nothing does the 'Angrily waving ones guns around maneuver' quite as well ;-) .
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  2. Well; it pays to know one's [traditional] enemies as well as one's friends ;-) .
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  3. Not the first though, as one of the KGV's proposed layouts had three quad's.
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  4. A practical solution to having the equivilant of twice the number of double turrets, on a ship half the length of armoured citadel. That; and less individual turrets means less weight taken up in barbettes.
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  5.  @rohannavalkar112  The QE Class originally was to have ten 15" guns in five turrets, but it was concluded that eight guns in four turrets would still deliver more Weight of Broadside than previous classes, and allowed for more speed & mobility, as well as shorten the amount of ship requiring armour protection, thus in real terms allowing thicker armour.
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  6. As is always the case in engineering.
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  7. This means France is the only country other than Germany to have worked on a 16.5" gun. That said the German one was for the Kaiserlichemarine in the 1910's, and whilst the weapon passed tests the Germans had no ships that could mount her, nor the shipbuilding capacity to build such vessels from scratch. (though they considered the option, albeit with the proposal being devoid of many things they lacked the means to produce in wartime, which rather killed the concept) Weirdly: the Kreigsmarine never tried to resurrect the 16.5" gun.
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  8. Sister* ;-)
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  9. Theoretically; though the Free French probably didn't have the financial capital, and - speaking hypothetically as the UK certainly was full to capacity for ship orders during WWII - it would've required substituting components. (such as using British 15"/42's instead of french 15") In peacetime though - assuming WWII occured later - the French Could have had the hulls built in UK or US 'yards, and fitted out in France, but the bruising to their national pride would likely have prevented this.
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  10.  tamenga88  I think I saw a photo' some years ago online, but I'd have to chase it up, as I no longer have many of the bookmarks I had on the topic.
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