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1/700 A-H Battle Cruiser Design VI Stern
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The Design VI battle cruiser of the KuK Marine (Kaiserliche und Konigliche Kriesgmarine), the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is a revised Design IV project with larger main battery guns, and the last proposal put forward for this type of ship.
Hull and displacement were the same as Design IV, with the same 30 kn top speed and 225 mm main belt; the secondary battery and the unique four 15 cm AA guns in fully enclosed gun houses were also kept.
Main battery, however, was a very different story from before: two twin 42 cm gun turrets, one at the bow and one at the stern, was the sum total of the ship's big guns. Possibly inspired by the RN's Courageous class ships (which however were designed and built very differently and for a very different purpose), this design stretched the boundaries of viability in terms of gun performance.
As many a naval designer said during and even before the dreadnought age, four guns is the minimum viable amount of shells fired in a single salvo for accurate targeting at range, one of the reasons why large warships fired half-salvoes in battle or practice, so that the next volley could be corrected by fall of shot. It must be stressed the premise for this practice is the inherent complexity of naval gunnery, factoring in a large number of variables to put a shell on a moving target, in different sea conditions, with varying visibility and under mutual bombardment.
The only exception to this are of course Courageous, Glorious and especially Furious, that fly in the face of anything sane regarding gunfire of capital ships under combat conditions, all being extremely lightly built and with the former two having four 15'' and the latter two 18'' guns in total. But they are very much the exception rather than the rule, being one of Fisher's pet projects and given they were designed for a specific environment (the Baltic Sea), with a specific purpose in mind (gunfire support against small warships and coastal bombardment), and were never taken too seriously by the Royal Navy: so much so Furious was converted into the most heavily armed aircraft carrier ever built before even being completed with her two single turrets, the bow one being replaced with a flying-off deck, leaving a single monstrous 18'' gun at the stern of dubious combat value, while Courageous and Glorious did not (fortunately for their crews) see any combat before the end of the conflict, receiving structural damage by not particularly heavy seas, and quickly put on the carrier conversion list after the signing of the Washington Treaty since they used up precious displacement for little gain owing to their capital ship weaponry.
Hull and displacement were the same as Design IV, with the same 30 kn top speed and 225 mm main belt; the secondary battery and the unique four 15 cm AA guns in fully enclosed gun houses were also kept.
Main battery, however, was a very different story from before: two twin 42 cm gun turrets, one at the bow and one at the stern, was the sum total of the ship's big guns. Possibly inspired by the RN's Courageous class ships (which however were designed and built very differently and for a very different purpose), this design stretched the boundaries of viability in terms of gun performance.
As many a naval designer said during and even before the dreadnought age, four guns is the minimum viable amount of shells fired in a single salvo for accurate targeting at range, one of the reasons why large warships fired half-salvoes in battle or practice, so that the next volley could be corrected by fall of shot. It must be stressed the premise for this practice is the inherent complexity of naval gunnery, factoring in a large number of variables to put a shell on a moving target, in different sea conditions, with varying visibility and under mutual bombardment.
The only exception to this are of course Courageous, Glorious and especially Furious, that fly in the face of anything sane regarding gunfire of capital ships under combat conditions, all being extremely lightly built and with the former two having four 15'' and the latter two 18'' guns in total. But they are very much the exception rather than the rule, being one of Fisher's pet projects and given they were designed for a specific environment (the Baltic Sea), with a specific purpose in mind (gunfire support against small warships and coastal bombardment), and were never taken too seriously by the Royal Navy: so much so Furious was converted into the most heavily armed aircraft carrier ever built before even being completed with her two single turrets, the bow one being replaced with a flying-off deck, leaving a single monstrous 18'' gun at the stern of dubious combat value, while Courageous and Glorious did not (fortunately for their crews) see any combat before the end of the conflict, receiving structural damage by not particularly heavy seas, and quickly put on the carrier conversion list after the signing of the Washington Treaty since they used up precious displacement for little gain owing to their capital ship weaponry.
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