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1/700 H44 Class Bridge & Funnels
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Before getting into a bit of history of the ship itself, I'd like to point one thing out. In my research I had almost always come across some kind of comparison between the H series and the other never-built monsters such as the Montana and A-150 classes. Now, while these make a funny reading from time to time, seriously talking there is no way on Earth Germany could have built them: they would have taken at least five, probably six or seven, years to build (keeping in mind they were started to being designed in 1942), and they simply didn't have the infrastructures, the slipways, shipyards, drydocks, fitting out yards, to physically have built them. It takes years (in peacetime) to enlarge a navy, because of the infrastructures you need, so there's no point in even thinking about doing that during wartime.
The H-44 class was not part of the Z plan, as is often erroneously pointed out, but a late-war sketch design which was a continuation of the H class (sometimes referred to as H-39), which was part of the Z plan, although not all of the details have survived the war, and so most sources tend to disagree on their specifications.
The H-44 was the last of the six H designs (H-39 to H-44), being also the largest. It had a length of 345m (1131ft 11in), a displacement of 131,000 tons and a speed of 30.1 kn; main armament was eight 50.8cm guns divided in four twin turrets, although the ships retained the inefficient double secondary battery of the Bismarck class with twelve 15cm guns for surface action and sixteen 10.5cm guns for long range AA defense, instead of having a double-purpose secondary battery which could have saved weight and cost. The 10.5cm gun could have been used against surface targets, but it didn't have the punch compared to other DP guns (the round weighed about half those of the 5''/38 (US) and 4.5''/45 QF (UK) ). AA armament was 28 3.7cm and 40 2cm; six submerged 53cm torpedo tubes were also added, because why not?
An explosive release system was incorporated in the rudder, drawing from the lessons learned by the loss of the Bismarck, as well as protective skegs for the propellers, although oddly enough these were placed on the inside of them, supposedly so that if they were damaged on one side, the damage wouldn't propagate to those on the other.
The H-44 class was not part of the Z plan, as is often erroneously pointed out, but a late-war sketch design which was a continuation of the H class (sometimes referred to as H-39), which was part of the Z plan, although not all of the details have survived the war, and so most sources tend to disagree on their specifications.
The H-44 was the last of the six H designs (H-39 to H-44), being also the largest. It had a length of 345m (1131ft 11in), a displacement of 131,000 tons and a speed of 30.1 kn; main armament was eight 50.8cm guns divided in four twin turrets, although the ships retained the inefficient double secondary battery of the Bismarck class with twelve 15cm guns for surface action and sixteen 10.5cm guns for long range AA defense, instead of having a double-purpose secondary battery which could have saved weight and cost. The 10.5cm gun could have been used against surface targets, but it didn't have the punch compared to other DP guns (the round weighed about half those of the 5''/38 (US) and 4.5''/45 QF (UK) ). AA armament was 28 3.7cm and 40 2cm; six submerged 53cm torpedo tubes were also added, because why not?
An explosive release system was incorporated in the rudder, drawing from the lessons learned by the loss of the Bismarck, as well as protective skegs for the propellers, although oddly enough these were placed on the inside of them, supposedly so that if they were damaged on one side, the damage wouldn't propagate to those on the other.
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