![]() The eight guns were installed in four turrets of two guns each. At 11 miles, it could penetrate 16.5 inches of armor, or roughly to the horizon at sea level, although it could theoretically hit targets much further.īoth battleships were heavily protected, with 12.5 inches of steel at the main belt, 8.7 inch armored bulkheads, and 14.1 inches of armor on the main gun turrets. The 1,764-pound killer shell traveled at 2,960 feet per second out the bore, faster than the bullet of a high-powered rifle. ![]() The Bismarck class had eight fifteen-inch guns, each capable of hurling an armor piercing, capped round up to 21.75 miles. Three FuMo-23 search radars could detect surface targets at more than thirteen miles. Twelve high-pressure boilers powered three turbines, giving the ship a top speed of 30.1 knots. ![]() The ships were 821 feet long and displaced up to 50,000 tons fully loaded. Two ships, the Bismarck and Tirpitz, were planned. With that restriction out of the way, Germany immediately began construction on the Bismarck-class battleships. Germany had been prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles to build warships over 10,000 tons, but the Anglo-German Naval Treaty of 1935 implicitly allowed them-though the German Navy was not to exceed thirty five percent the size of the Royal Navy. The Bismarck-class battleships were the largest surface ships built by Germany before and during the Second World War. was forced to hunt down the German Navy’s major surface combatants? What if the Iowa-class fast battleships had been sortied into the Atlantic to square off against their counterparts, the Bismarck-class battleships? ![]() ![]() I found a comparison of a battle between Bismarck and a US Iowa class: This from By the time of America’s entry into the war the Royal Navy had already sunk or neutralized the lion’s share of Hitler’s Kriegsmarine, with only Hitler’s U-boats remaining a substantial German threat.īut what if the UK’s Royal Navy hadn’t been as successful as it was, and the U.S. ![]()
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