Posted on 02/21/2021 4:40:38 PM PST by Onthebrink
The ships, which soon earned the nickname “Stalin’s Republics,” at 65,000 tons would have been 13,000 tons larger than Germany’s Bismarck, and more on the scale of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato class and the U.S. Navy’s planned but canceled Montana-class, yet it has been noted that the Soviet ships may have been less heavily armed with just nine 406mm (16-inch) main guns. That was compared to the nine 460mm (18.1-inch) guns of the Japanese warships and the dozen 16-inch guns on the proposed U.S. vessels.
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A delusion......this was light years beyond the soviets ship building capabilities. One was laid down but didn’t progress much ...
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https://www.youtube.com/c/Drachinifel/featured
Built in what port that had access to the sea without being frozen?
5.56mm
A giant navy made no sense for Germany, end even less sense for Russia. This is because of their geography. Neither has to use the sea to project their power, and their main need is a submarine fleet. Germany did a little more to try to import resources, but they didn’t succeed in that in WWI or WWII.
The Soviets had the Black Sea. The problem was that their ships had to go through the Dardanelles.
Seems like a Continental Power that builds a big navy is just wasting precious resources.
Why bother...we are killing ourselves.
It’s a vanity project for them. The stinging defeat at Tsushima was not too far in the past. But even we and the British, navy nations, had our hands VERY full in beating the Japanese Navy. The Russians never could have done it.
Nations like us, the Brits, the Japanese, all need powerful navies.
And if the Russians had have built these giant battleships, they could have never operated outside of German sub and land based plane coverage. And while doing so, they would have not had friendly air protection. And to ever leave the Baltic, they had to pass deadly German guns in Denmark by 5 miles or less.
Navy ships dueling with large caliber shore based guns is to be avoided like cyanide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_cm_SK_C/28
Bkmk navy
Of course.
8^)
5.56mm
These Missouri class battleships. Anyone heard about those missiles that can be mounted on them? I heard they have a 10k mile range. Pretty secure.
Is that BB 61, named after my adopted home state?😀
That is a real war ship, Iowa.
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