The Yamato's Bigger German Cousin

McPherson

McPherson

Banned
Because one kind of can figure out what aluminized RDX can do?" And exploding UP is about 3x as effective to punching through a ship's bottom than through a ship's side? P There is a little bit of physics involved here as the ship acts as a blast plug and tamps the explosion that would otherwise be vented up through the less dense water and wasted into the atmosphere. Tamped in that direction the explosive can only work on plate and will crack like glass. And a 2 meter void in a double or triple bottom is not really that impressive when the hull U-frame is bent UP and the keel is snapped.
 

Starslayer_D

OK, so it shakes down in the Baltic. Now how does it reach the north sea? Kiel channel is too narrow. What is the minimum draft for the belts?

Kiel, we have a problem!
 

King Augeas

Starslayer_D said:
OK, so it shakes down in the Baltic. Now how does it reach the north sea? Kiel channel is too narrow. What is the minimum draft for the belts?

Kiel, we have a problem!
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Baltimax is 15.4 m, the draught is 16.75 m.

Dam the Belts. Wait for the Baltic's sea level to slowly rise. At 500 km3 per year, it'll take about four years to rise five metres. You now have four metres of water under the keel. And five metres of water on top of every coastal Baltic city, but never mind that.

Now blow the dam and ride the outburst flood all the way to Tower Bridge!
 

Alanith

King Augeas said:
Baltimax is 15.4 m, the draught is 16.75 m.

Dam the Belts. Wait for the Baltic's sea level to slowly rise. At 500 km3 per year, it'll take about four years to rise five metres. You now have four metres of water under the keel. And five metres of water on top of every coastal Baltic city, but never mind that.

Now blow the dam and ride the outburst flood all the way to Tower Bridge!
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That'll take too long. We'll mount the entirety of 1st Panzerarmee's vehicular pool under the keel and drive it over Denmark.
 

Joseph890

Geon said:
There actually was an alternate history written about the Fuehrer being built and going into battle on another site. The thing was built at - I kid you not - a secret Antarctic naval base and the officers and crew needed to be strapped into special seats wearing special ear protection when those guns fired.
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You know what site it was published on
 

Astrodragon

Assuming the RN decide to match this monster in displacement, they can build about 17 Lion class.
Now the silly part is a single Lion has a throwweight of about 45,000lb/min.
The H45 has a throwweight of 24,000lb/min

So a SINGLE Lion tosses twice the weight of shells. And for the same effort, the RN can build 17.
(Oh, and while the deck is immune, the H45 belt isn't...)

In the time the H45 fires a broadside of 8 shells, the Lions fire about 1,500.

It doesn't really seem a good design :p
 
SsgtC

SsgtC

Banned
Alanith said:
That'll take too long. We'll mount the entirety of 1st Panzerarmee's vehicular pool under the keel and drive it over Denmark.
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Just one problem. All the steel meant for those Panzers? It went into this monstrosity. So 1st Panzerarmee doesn't exist
 

Alanith

SsgtC said:
Just one problem. All the steel meant for those Panzers? It went into this monstrosity. So 1st Panzerarmee doesn't exist
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Nonsense, everyone* knows the German Reich isn't limited by constraints such as logistics, industrial choke necks, technology, or common sense!

*Who's a Wehraboo
 

Seafort

Alanith said:
I have a better idea.

We'll construct it using modular construction. Each will be a self contained unit, able to fight even with the destruction of other modules. And we'll call it... A well Balanced Fleet.
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It worked at times for the Decepticons.

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SsgtC

SsgtC

Banned
Alanith said:
Nonsense, everyone* knows the German Reich isn't limited by constraints such as logistics, industrial choke necks, technology, or common sense!

*Who's a Wehraboo
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Damn it! How did I forget that?! I must now don the Cone of Shame
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weasel_airlift

King Augeas said:
Dam the Belts. Wait for the Baltic's sea level to slowly rise. At 500 km3 per year, it'll take about four years to rise five metres. You now have four metres of water under the keel. And five metres of water on top of every coastal Baltic city, but never mind that.
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How much will this monster raise the level of the Baltic by it's displacement?
 

Kevin Renner

Not only would this thing suck up every single gram of steel that Germany can produce (along with the copper, brass, bronze etc) just fueling it will cause every single airplane to be grounded, every single tank and truck to be out of service due to fuel shortages. The amount of lead needed for the paint will most likely cause a halt to small arms production. As Per Further departs on it's maiden (and last) voyage three privates in a Jeep capture Berlin
 

Zheng He

The amount of lead needed for the paint will most likely cause a halt to small arms production.

Then their won't be any lead paint for the admirals in the British and American navies to drink.
 

Carl Schwamberger

The North Sea becomes a toxic hazard after the ship sinks there. Lead, asbestos, copper sulfates, zinc, & much else in high concentrations end the fishing trade of the N Sea coasts.

Kevin Renner said:
... it will cause every single airplane to be grounded, every single tank and truck to be out of service due to fuel shortages. ...
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The oil industry taps the fuel tanks for post war industry. Undersea mining gets a boost as bulk exploitation of the refined metals in the ship are sought. International treaties are made over the carcass. The Germans, defeated and impoverished from building it look on as the idustryof other European nations prosper on what once was their pride.
 
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