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1/600 D Class Panzerschiffe Armament
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The so-called D class panzerschiffe (literally armoured ship, viz armoured cruiser) was to have been a new class of surface raiders closely following the specs of the Deutschland class, due to replace the two old battleship SMS Elsass and SMS Hessen. Improving on the latter's constrained design, the new ships were projected to be almost double the displacement of the Deutschlands, the new German chancellor having rejected the arms limitations of the Versailles treaty.
The ships would be 207 mt long at the waterline, with an overall length of 209.65 mt (as per original plans; the oft-quoted figure of 230 mt oa is a mistaken reference to the later P class, a direct development of the D class); beam was increased to 25.6 mt with a 7.7 mt draught.
No changes would be made to the main battery, retaining the six 28 cm guns in triple turrets at the bow and stern, but the secondaries were uniformed into four twin 15 cm turrets at the four corners of the superstructure, augumented by another four twin 10.5 cm dual-purpose mounts, compared to the Deutschlands' eight 15 cm guns in single open mounts clustered amidships, and three single 8.8 cm AA guns. The same eight torpedo tubes were carried over on the lowered quarterdeck.
The real gamechanger was armour. The main belt was more than doubled from the original, for a total thickness of 220 mm; decks were 80 mm at the thickest with an additional upper deck of 35 mm; while the turrets had up to 360 mm of armour compared to the Deutschlands' 140 mm. Speed was increased by only a knot but it required more than doubling the powerplant due to the much larger displacement and dimensions of the new design.
The never-named Ersatz Elsass was laid down in February 1934, however that same month the decision was taken to alter the design to counter the new French Dunkerque class fast battleships, Dunkerque being a year away from launch and Strasbourg having just been ordered. Therefore construction was halted on hull D and hull E (Ersatz Hessen) was never laid down, with their construction cancelled and the contracts swapped in favour of a heavily modified design that would become the Scharnhorst class.
The ships would be 207 mt long at the waterline, with an overall length of 209.65 mt (as per original plans; the oft-quoted figure of 230 mt oa is a mistaken reference to the later P class, a direct development of the D class); beam was increased to 25.6 mt with a 7.7 mt draught.
No changes would be made to the main battery, retaining the six 28 cm guns in triple turrets at the bow and stern, but the secondaries were uniformed into four twin 15 cm turrets at the four corners of the superstructure, augumented by another four twin 10.5 cm dual-purpose mounts, compared to the Deutschlands' eight 15 cm guns in single open mounts clustered amidships, and three single 8.8 cm AA guns. The same eight torpedo tubes were carried over on the lowered quarterdeck.
The real gamechanger was armour. The main belt was more than doubled from the original, for a total thickness of 220 mm; decks were 80 mm at the thickest with an additional upper deck of 35 mm; while the turrets had up to 360 mm of armour compared to the Deutschlands' 140 mm. Speed was increased by only a knot but it required more than doubling the powerplant due to the much larger displacement and dimensions of the new design.
The never-named Ersatz Elsass was laid down in February 1934, however that same month the decision was taken to alter the design to counter the new French Dunkerque class fast battleships, Dunkerque being a year away from launch and Strasbourg having just been ordered. Therefore construction was halted on hull D and hull E (Ersatz Hessen) was never laid down, with their construction cancelled and the contracts swapped in favour of a heavily modified design that would become the Scharnhorst class.
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