Germany get 1.75 to 5 on Washington treaty and keeps part of HSF

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Re: Germany get 1.75 to 5 on Washington treaty and keeps part of HSF

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Steve-M wrote:
alecsandros wrote:On a design basis, one could say a substantial tonnage was allocated to diesel fuel (2700 tons), while armor scheme was minimal (Deutschalnd - 80mm belt and up to 40mm armor deck). For Baltic domination, 1500 tons of fuel would have been more then enough, while allocating the rest of 1200 tons to armor would have made the ship far mroe resilient to gunfire.
FYI, "standard displacement" as defined by WNT didn't include fuel.
And cruiser displacement was restricted at 10.000 tons.
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Re: Germany get 1.75 to 5 on Washington treaty and keeps part of HSF

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alecsandros wrote:And cruiser displacement was restricted at 10.000 tons.
Displacement was limited to 10,000 tons, and armament was limited to 8" guns. As such, IMO an upgraded Panzerschiffe that are better protected against 8" gunfire would make some sense with respect to what Germany needed at the time. In their shoes, I'd skip the Hippers outright, and focus shipbuilding capacity in that direction. 6-8 such vessels roaming the seas would pose a grave threat to any convoy escorted by less than a BC/BB. Add in upgunned variants of S&G, and you've got vessels that can reliably take convoys escorted by the unmodernized R's as well.
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Re: Germany get 1.75 to 5 on Washington treaty and keeps part of HSF

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A very interesting idea,
To which I completely agree. The HIpper's were more expensive and overall brought much less profit to KGM...

There is a very interesting discussion here:
http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.c ... ept?page=1

concerning pocket battleship merits.

Best,
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