vladalex wrote:I give for all the Forum-funs a "hand-made-picture" of the Goliath & David, which shows eloquently the degree of functionality of Bismarck the proud of the KM, against an antique English "mosquito" , maintained in RN .Don71 wrote: ...
Also to me BS/TP are overall the best designed european BB'S of the WWII, from fighting power, functioning artillery, armour layout, range and speed.
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So the KM had surely a bunch of bad designs, but also a bunch of good designs.
As a result of loss of this ship, KM designers have developed and proposed idea of a super-ship class: Fuhrer.
Cheers for KM as the idea was rejected. It's a good example of how professionals could be these engineers of the KM.
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Vladalex
I don't think that HMS Vanguard has any clear advantages compare to a TP 1944. So were is your argumentation and issue?
The german armour layout was completely different to any other Navy. The explanations are written at the Lilianthal Report from 1942, were the KM compare BS/TP at detail to the Richelieu class. The deep german main armour deck with slopes and integrarted to the vertical armour layout, was in need to a long ctadell (170m), to give enough protected room for the ship. The spaced array armour layout with 50mm weather deck, and 80mm main armour deck, was rated after post war primary ADM papers, equal to a 6 inch single armour deck layout.
Also there are the Panzerschiffe, which are to my opinion a good design for the beginning 1930er and the Elbing class, the FT39, which have done some very interesting operations at the channel between 1942-44 with clear headaches to the RN. To me a very good small destroyer class.