Often battleship design optimized to fulfill one set of operational requirement given one set of industrial, technical and logistic reality seems suboptimal when evaluated with more superficial and generalized criteria. My question is what post 1905 battleship design is, in your opinion, most defective or poorly thought out even when accounting for its operational requirement and its prevailing industrial, technical and logistic reality? In other words which battleship design is genuinely the least competent.
My vote is the Sovietskii class. Yamato sized but fitted with armament of ship almost 30% smaller, Complicated armor scheme with armored belt of continuously varying thickness that must be a nightmare to produce and repair, Need the most powerful power plant ever fitted to a battleship to achieve a rather mediocre top speed, Have heavy AA disposed in such a way that either its magazine would have to be well outside the citadel, or the ammunition must be hand carried across the quarter deck from hoists 40 meter away.
My vote is the Sovietskii class. Yamato sized but fitted with armament of ship almost 30% smaller, Complicated armor scheme with armored belt of continuously varying thickness that must be a nightmare to produce and repair, Need the most powerful power plant ever fitted to a battleship to achieve a rather mediocre top speed, Have heavy AA disposed in such a way that either its magazine would have to be well outside the citadel, or the ammunition must be hand carried across the quarter deck from hoists 40 meter away.
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