Was large cruiser a good idea?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska-class_cruiser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_B-65_cruiser
Was large cruiser a good idea?
Was large cruiser a good idea?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska-class_cruiser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_B-65_cruiser
In hindsight? No. At that point you're paying nearly as much as you'd do for a full-size fast battleship, and you get a lot less for it.
ehh
Was a better carrier escort than BBs in a low torpedo threat area.
not really, it has all the problems of cruisers and bbs without any of the benefits
t. seething muttoid
OH NO NO NO NO NO
>post another russkie pile of shit
>muh seething mutts
Lol. LMAO, even.
Russia has never had and will never have a navy worth jack shit.
Thanks for derailed my thread.
yoshino is better
Design 1047
>30,000t or so
>9x11" main guns
>9" belt
>speed of <34kts
>universally accepted as a small battlecruiser
Alaska
>35,000t or so
>9x12" main guns
>9" belt
>speed of 33kts
>uhm ackthually it's a heavy cruiser, just like the 8" armed cruisers before and after it
And before I forget:
>both designed to fight Jap heavy cruisers
>>both designed to fight Jap heavy cruisers
and cruiser hunting was alway the purpose of battle cruisers as a ship class, they are designed to be fast enough to hunt down and kill enemy cruisers.
battleship caliber guns on a hull as fast as a cruiser and with a similar scale of armour
Bro if your last resort to an argument is the Dutch, you’ve already lost.
Ignoring the eternal "was she a battlecruiser" argument Alaska was sex and should had been preserved/kept as part of the Cold War big gun fleet.
Meh, did she do anything noteworthy? I'm pretty satisfied with what we have preserved from the US fleet, except it would have been good historically to save some of the weird early carriers. The scrapping of the HMS Warspite though I think was the greatest tragedy. That ship had so much history.
She required a crew almost as large as a BBs, for far less capability.
>Was large cruiser a good idea?
>Less than 36 months of active service before being mothballed
>scrapped at not even 20 years old
apparently not
> The scrapping of the HMS Warspite though I think was the greatest tragedy
Enterprise
Yes
They were a dead end. Which is a shame, because I really like the way they look. Plus, they had a really nice 12 inch gun, iirc.