Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "The Alaska class - Large/Super/Battle/Mega/Hyper/Ultra Cruisers" video.

The Alaska's wpuld have made many a 2nd world navy happy, had the US sold them off as an off-the-peg capital ship on-a-budget, instead of scrapping them. This is when considering that various postwar nations such as Spain, Sweden and most of S-America, among others, had older Capital Ships to replace but not the means to build a replacement themselves, or in Spain's case had lost an entire class of ship in their civil war. Makes one wonder what sort of historical niche the Alaska trio might have had.
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@hailexiao2770 Interesting points. Spain did once have a handful of small Dreadnoughts, thus a Cruiser - albeit coincidentally of the same caliber guns and vastly more modern - would have been a logical choice for a replacement. Spain's post-WWII economy though was indeed weak (mostly self inflicted), but several medium sized warships were still achieved.
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@davidgoodnow269 Agreed. Apart from Submarine attack and some of the heavier duty A/S missiles of the '70's & '80's (and of course a larger Capital Ship or a tactical nuke), there wasn't very much that could've hurt an Alaska, and most were unlikely to encounter in South-America. Given that the USA sold smaller Cruisers to Brazil, Argentina and Chile in the '50's (to keep a reasonable balance between them all), a situation where Alaska, Guam & Hawaii ended up individually the Capital Ship of each aforementioned S-American nation, is all too likely. (as Brazil's Battleships were also overdue for replacement, as was the Admiral Cochrane in Chile; both of which had similar armaments yet far less capability with them relative to the then modern, much faster & better protected Alaska's)
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The Alaska's would I suspect have made many a 2nd world navy happy, had the US sold the trio off as an off-the-peg capital ship on-a-budget, instead of scrapping them. This is when considering that various postwar nations such as Spain, Sweden and most of S-America, among others, had older Capital Ships to replace but not the means to build a replacement themselves, or in Spain's case had lost an entire class of ship in their civil war. Makes one wonder what sort of historical niche the Alaska trio might have had, and what conflicts they could have ended up in.
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@Charliecomet82 Possibly, and logically Chile would have had at least one Alaska too. (as it was both countries had Brooklyns, partially because the US wanted to sell the ships, but also wanted to keep some sort of balance between age-old rivals Argentina & Chile) Becomes even more interesting when combined with the modernized HMS Vanguard notion... (as the RN did intend and tried for years to retain the ship, as a heavy fleet escort against Soviet Cruisers & aircraft was still desired [but ultimately erroded by budget cuts]) Tis fun to contemplate, and given actual events involving a WWII ship sunk in the '80's with Torpedoes designed in the '20's... what-ifs become much less improbable.
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