Of course, this may not be accurate, but it is an educated guess. This leads to a bigger disparity between maximum and practical DPM which is part of how she was balanced, I believe. By contrast, the Dunkerque will always be firing with all eight guns while the Kongo may struggle to bring eight to bear at times. But in the practical sense, she's rarely going to be firing with all eight guns - at least not with the regularity of other ships because of her horrible gun traverse. Like the Warspite has eight 381mm guns with decent theoretical DPM (worse than the twelve gun, 356mm armed ships, of course).
Yep, it's going to the difference between maximum and practical DPM. Nice post and informative, good point of view. I admit to doing a bit of a fake French accent in my head while reading it This was a very detailed and interesting response. This problem of french navy is logistic, AA and fiability of material. This french BB is to bad ? But this sister ship of Richelieu is flag-ship of Royal Navy Fleet in Pacific. Modern to desing and practice (very important fire security for exemple). This France have very hight tech navy in 1939.
After this limitation is for large cruiser and BB, this France armer lot of fast ligt cruiser, heavy destroyer (style of higth tiers russian DD) and heavy sub-marine (Surcouf more large submarine of world, sunk by american error). Other problem, this France respect this Washington Naval Act, in this time USA can't craft a BB, Japon, Italia and Germany cheat. And use a concept of this time : speed = armor (for dodge shell). He just have armored to perfectly tank a cruiser (large bow armor superior at Colorado). This Dunkerque is very modern ship (in 1936) but ligth, he designed to intercept and destroy this italian/german fast raider and countered a fast heavy cruiser (italian classe Zara for exemple). We don't have lot of money (in 1930s) to pay amelioration of army force, the colony investssiment, this recontruction of 1/4 north-east of France (to rappel this Germany and England as not impacted by war destruction, thanks at Wilson to don't lets french army invade Germany) and big ship. why you hate armor and big guns.īecause this coast of big armor and big gun's is very expensive.
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