>Alaska-class
>firepower in-between heavy cruisers and battleships
>less armored than a battleship
>faster than a battleship
>USN calls them "large cruisers"
>public at large calls them battlecruisers
>historians call them battlecruisers
>rest of world refers to ships w/ similar qualities as battlecruisers
>except for Nips and their unfinished "super cruisers"
Tell me /k/, are "large cruisers" really a thing or are they just battlecruisers with a shiny new American name slapped on them?
Well British battlecruisers had battleship-tier firepower with inferior armor.
German battlecruisers had battleship-tier protection but smaller guns.
Kirovs were called battlecruisers.
Call it whatever the hell you want.
>>27789000
When you say German battlecruisers, are you including the planned ones they had in WWII that they never built or are you just considering their WWI ones?
Additionally w/ the Brits is that only the case w/ their WWI ones, I was under the impression the HMS Hood was originally classified as a battlecruiser but was later just considered a fast-battleship like the Kongo-class was after their modernizations.
America is autistics. Its like everybody knows of chinese superiority only America cannot accept.
Dunkerque says hi.
>>27788926
Alaskas are not battlecruisers because of their armor scheme, not armament.
>>27790337
What's unique about the Alaskas armor scheme?
>>27790348
It uses 100% pure Freedomium.
>>27790348
It's armored like a cruiser, not battlecruiser.
>>27790384
I don't suppose you could go into more detail about what that entails?
>>27790391
No underwater protection, less side protection, basically less of existing protection and some areas not protected that would've been on a battlecruiser.
It was built with the same purpose in mind as the original battlecruisers; to hunt down and sink the cruisers of the previous generation. In my mind that makes it as close to a battlecruiser as the US has ever built.
Out of curiosity, how would people here classify the B-65 supercruisers?
It's hard to fanboy over the Alaska class. They might be fun in a game later on, but that's about it.
>>27790075
Ching chong plx go
