![]() I think we will see her eventually, but it'll be a BB premium. Yes, no other country got a cruiser with guns that large off the drawing board, that doesn't mean it's a battle cruiser. A Japanese cruiser that could stand up to the Baltimore class.Īgain, it was built from a cruiser hull, it was made to fight IJN cruisers of similar displacement, it was slower than the BB designed along side it. It was a weapon designed to counter a weapon that never made it off the drawing board. When they never got a design started they didn't end up needing the Alaska. ![]() In fact, it was slower than the Iowa.Īre you telling me that USN concept of battle cruiser was "trade gun size, armor, AA and speed for nothing"? Clearly not.Īlaska was a super heavy cruiser intended to fight the rumored IJN super heavy cruisers. The Alaska had no speed advantage over the Iowa. Since the improved 12" gun was as punchy as a 14" gun and Alaska had an immune zone to her own guns due to her armor, why do you keep insisting that they are cruisers? They were battlecruisers in all but name. ![]() Germany went with almost the same armor and smaller BB guns to make them faster. BCs, as envisioned by the UK, had BB guns and thinner armor to make them faster. Just because it is not a scaled down Iowa, doesn't mean it is not a battlecruiser. ![]()
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