[13] By 1942, it was apparent to the US Navy high command that they needed as many fast battleships as possible, and hull numbers BB-65 and BB-66 were allocated to planned Iowa-class fast battleships Illinois and Kentucky. Of cause everybody is building megalomaniac showoff ships with insane amounts of Avorion nobody will ever use. "Rearming in a Vacuum: United States Navy Intelligence and the Japanese Capital Ship Threat, 1936–1945". Submarines are way too slow, they never get into range. [37] The addition of the No. He decided to take the idea of it and improve on it. those generators though 1Tw i already throught the xzotan artifacts on and the amount of firepower this can put out is insane gj, nice looking ship m8 hope to be able to use it when i can get enough credits for it lol, © Valve Corporation. The machinery arrangement was reminiscent of that of the Lexington-class aircraft carrier, with the boiler rooms flanking the two central turbine rooms for the inboard shafts, while the turbine rooms for the wing shafts were placed at the after end of the machinery spaces. Keegan, John; Ellis, Chris; Natkiel, Richard (2001). If commissioned, the ships were expected to mount a considerable array of Oerlikon 20 mm and Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft weapons. The Construction Office of the Oberkommando der Marine(OKM) … Naval Historical Center. The first two vessels were approved by Congress in 1939 following the passage of the Second Vinson Act. [N 6] Consequently, the yard's number 4 dry dock had to be enlarged and the ships would be floated out rather than conventionally launched. [65][66][N 16], Ohio was to be the second Montana-class battleship. Unlike other automatic guns employed during World War II, the barrel of the 20 mm Oerlikon gun does not recoil; the breechblock is never locked against the breech and is actually moving forward when the gun fires. When coupled with hydraulic couple drives to reduce salt contamination and the Mark 51 director for improved accuracy, the Bofors 40 mm gun became a fearsome adversary, accounting for roughly half of all Japanese aircraft shot down between 1 October 1944 and 1 February 1945. 4 turret would have allowed Montana to overtake Yamato as the battleship having heaviest broadside overall; Montana and her sisters would have had a broadside of 32,400 lb (14,700 kg)[7] vs. 28,800 lb (13,100 kg) for Yamato. even 10 million is a rather medium sized endgame-ship, @tramspieler this is actually my first "OP" ship. The inboard shafts were housed in skegs, which while increasing hydrodynamic drag, substantially strengthened the stern structure. how does that work now? Although a descendant of German, Dutch, and Swedish designs, the Bofors mounts used by the US Navy during World War II had been heavily Americanized to bring the guns up to the standards placed on them by the Navy. If you were Germany and you wanted naval dominance of the English Channel: build only battleships. [29][28], By January 1941, the design limit for the 58,000-ton battleship plan had been reached, and consensus among those designing the battleship class was to increase the displacement to a nominal 60,500 long tons (61,470 t) to support the desired armor and weaponry on the ships. This tonnage "Escalator Clause" is distinct from the "Escalator Clause" invoked in April 1937 that raised the caliber limit from 14 in (356 mm) to 16 in (406 mm). Montana was planned to be the lead ship of the class. You might lose ships here and there, but you'll retain dominance purely because the enemy can't damage you. Super battleship is an unofficial classification of battleships encompassing the largest types constructed or planned, displacing roughly 60,000 tons or more. 8 could penetrate 20 inches (510 mm) of vertical steel armor plate. 5 shells, not the new "super-heavy" 2,700 lb (1,200 kg) Mk. Although the Navy knew little about the Yamato class, some rumors regarding the new Japanese battleships placed main gun battery caliber at 18 inches (457 mm). The Super Heavy beats the Battleship which beats the Battlecruiser and so on as you go down. Contrary to popular belief, the ships would not have moved sideways noticeably when a broadside was fired. The "fast" design evolved into the Iowa class while the "slow" design, with main armament battery eventually settled on twelve 16-inch (406 mm) guns and evolution into a 60,500-ton design, was assigned the name Montana and cleared for construction by the United States Congress under the Two-Ocean Navy Act in 1940; funding for the new ships was approved in 1941. [22] The initial design schemes for the Montana class were given the "BB65" prefix. [51], These guns are air-cooled and use a gas blow-back recoil system. © 2010 - 2020 Planetminecraft.com. [47][48], The secondary armament for Montana and her sisters was to be twenty 5-inch (127 mm)/54 cal guns housed in ten turrets along the superstructure island of the battleship; five on the starboard side and five on the port. [63], In June 1942, the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics requested industry proposals for a new seaplane to replace the Kingfisher and Curtiss SO3C Seamew. The Montanas' overall construction would make extensive use of welding for joining structural plates and homogeneous armor. There are numerous turret hardpoints placed over the ship making well placed turrets allow for great fleet command capibility. The Ronin Super Heavy Battleship (11 slot) is a very, VERY durable warship with excelent energy power supply, jump range, shielding, armor, and fighter capacity. She was to be named in honor of the 17th state, and was assigned to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for construction. Been thinking of using them as Germany in mutliplayer, mainly just to dump all your dockyards into something then surprise the enemy with a hard target. Cole would then look to designs that he had witnessed. Intended armament would have been twelve 16-inch (406 mm) Mark 7 guns in four 3-gun turrets, up from the nine Mark 7 guns in three turrets used by the Iowa class. In 1943, the revolutionary Mark 14 gunsight was introduced, which made these guns even more effective. [23] Although freed of the beam restriction from the extant Panama Canal, the length and height of the BB65 designs had to take into account one of the shipyards at which they were to be built: the New York Navy Yard slipways could not handle the construction of a ship more than 58,000 long tons (59,000 t), and vessels built there had to be low enough to clear the Brooklyn Bridge at low tide. The Oerlikon 20 mm AA gun remained the primary anti-aircraft weapon of the United States Navy until the introduction of the 40 mm Bofors AA gun in 1943. Naval Historical Foundation [2000] (2004). © Valve Corporation. After debate at the design board about whether the Montana class should be fast, achieving the high 33-knot (38 mph; 61 km/h) speed of the Iowa class, or maintain the 27-to-28-knot speed of the North Carolina- and South Dakota classes, the lower speed was chosen in order to rein in size and displacement. The Ronin Super Heavy Battleship (11 slot) is a very, VERY durable warship with excelent energy power supply, jump range, shielding, armor, and fighter capacity. The secondary armament battery of ten two-gun turrets was also changed to mount the 5-inch (127 mm)/54 cal guns instead of the 5-inch/38 cal guns used on the Iowas. [69][70], New Hampshire was to be the fourth Montana-class battleship, and was to be named in honor of the ninth state. Well, the 16"/50 heavy shell was almost as good an armor penetrator as the Japanese 18.1" shell. While the Montana class would not be designed principally for escorting the fast carrier task forces, they would have nonetheless been equipped with a wide array of anti-aircraft guns to protect themselves and other ships (principally the US aircraft carriers) from Japanese fighters and dive bombers. He looked mainly at the Korrina-II, witnessed at the Battle of Israel. Five ships of the Montana class were authorized on 19 July 1940, but they were suspended indefinitely until being canceled on 21 July 1943. Both the Iowa and Essex classes had been given higher priorities: the Iowas as they were far along enough in construction and urgently needed to operate alongside the Essex-class carriers and defend them with 5-inch, 40 mm, and 20 mm AA guns, and the Essexes because of their ability to launch aircraft to gain and maintain air supremacy over the islands in the Pacific and intercept warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 310–11, 326–27, Bridgeman, Leonard. The Montanas were the only US battleships designed to resist the Mk. If you can build one, I'd just stick to building multiple heavy/battle cruisers instead of one super-heavy battleship. [7], Preliminary planning for the Montana-class battleships took place in 1939, when the aircraft carrier was still considered strategically less important than the battleship. 13 HC (High-Capacity – referring to the large bursting charge) shell was available. At 20,000 yd (18.3 km), the Mk. The ronin is meant for high damage energy weapons or railguns. [52], The propulsion plant of the Montanas would have consisted of eight Babcock & Wilcox two-drum boilers with a steam pressure of 565 psi (3,900 kPa) and a steam temperature of 850 °F (454 °C) feeding four geared steam turbines, each driving one shaft with 43,000 hp (32 MW); this would result in a total propulsive power of 172,000 hp (128 MW), which gave a design speed of 28 knots at 70,500 tons displacement. [26], The larger BB65 design studies would again settle on main armament of twelve 16-inch/50 cal guns while providing protection against the "super heavy" AP shells. [59], Montana's torpedo protection system design incorporated lessons learned from those of previous US fast battleships, and was to consist of four internal longitudinal torpedo bulkheads behind the outer hull shell plating that would form a multi-layered "bulge". People like to claim that submarines are supposed to counter the biggest ships with their armor piercing torpedoes, but it never happens. [64] The first flight of a prototype XSC-1 took place on 16 February 1944 at the Columbus, Ohio Curtiss plant. The Mk. The results of this advance were telling: the rangekeeper was able to track and fire at targets at a greater range and with increased accuracy, as was demonstrated in November 1942 when the battleship Washington engaged the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kirishima at a range of 18,500 yd (16.9 km) at night; the Washington scored at least nine heavy caliber hits that critically damaged the Kirishima and led to her loss. These were born from the nuclear deterrence that had begun to shape the US armed forces at the start of the Cold War. [37], The turrets would have been "three-gun", not "triple", because each barrel would have elevated and fired independently.
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