battleships

If we can manage it, this happens sometime in the 19th century such that the armaments industry is well capable of designing and constructing a wide range of warships all the way to dreadnought battleships when that era is reached. Following that of course fast battleships, carriers and so on...

This is a random idea but it suddenly occurred to me. I think the consensus of many students of naval history is that the Littorio-class battleships of the Regia Marina were fine ships, heavily armed, fast and well protected. They most certainly were more modern and capable then Germany's...

If people here have watched the latest Drachinifel Drydock (24/10/21), he says at 11:36 that he would have sent the Nagato and the Mutsu down Ironbottom Sound during the 1942 Guadalcanal campaign to bombard Cactus Air Field, instead of the Hiei and Kirishima as they did historically during the...

This is not that complicated. As many of us know, IOTL HMS Rodney contributed largely to the sinking of the Bismarck. Now try to make it so that she does in Bismarck's sister as well. Timing, context and method are up to your choosing. Nothing ASB is allowed though. Bonus points if Rodney...

In the 18th century, the dominant capital ship type was the third-rate "seventy-four" (named for its 74 guns) ship of the line with two decks which balanced speed, manuevering, cost, and firepower. Larger second-rate and first-rate ships with three decks were mostly used as command ships due to...

Anyways, with a POD in spring of 1915, this is the alternate world in 1923, as a semi- to almost-realistic take on the popular Hearts of Iron 4 mod, Kaiserreich. The objective is to determine the outcome of this alternate Washington Naval Treaty.

So lets just say for our purposes that the MN dispatches the two Dunkerque class battleships and a small task force, say elements of the Force de Raid, a light cruiser, two large destroyers, and three or four smaller destroyers, to help the British intercept the Bismarck when she sorties. The...

As the title suggests, Germany builds another battleship* instead of building its never commissioned aircraft carrier. What impact does this have on North Sea operations? *perhaps a Scharnhorst sub-class armed with 15" guns, iirc there was a plan to replace their triple 11" turrets with double...

Imagine the following: USS South Dakota is more badly damaged at Santa Cruz Islands than in real life. Perhaps the torpedo that did in Porter hits her, or she gets struck by more bombs. This means that, when Vice Admiral Kondo and his force rock up to try and bombard Henderson Field again on...

Hi guys! So, I was looking at some random US Cold War naval stuff the other day, and I came across the strike cruiser idea. Basically, in the 70s the US's plan for future naval development was to have 8 big, nuclear powered Aegis-equipped cruisers called strike cruisers (CSGN). Eventually, it...

I was researching various things for an AH scenario where the US built a few of the proposed strike cruisers, as part of that I did some research into armor schemes, and I came across these articles: https://navy-matters.blogspot.com/2018/12/conceputal-armor-for-modern-ships.html &...

So iOTL Italy extensively rebuilt some of its pre-WWI dreadnoughts, namely those of the Conte di Cavour-class and the Andrea Doria-class. These were very intensive upgrade that gutted the ships and even gave them new bows. They did change up the armour and armament a bit but the real point of...

Is it possible to have an Anglo American naval race with a POD after reconstruction? Would Britain focus on competing against the United States or would Britain have a naval race against Germany and the United States at the same time?

Forward Following the success of the proceeding, A history of the two navies of the American Civil war, 1860-1865*, it was decided to attempt a follow up work dealing with Confederate naval history up until the present day. As it was realized the sheer amount of work required it was decided to...

This is an itch I have been needing to scratch for some time now - I got the idea from Antony Williams ATL/ASB WW2 novel 'The Foresight War' and applied my fascination of the G3/N3 and O3 designs of Battleships coupled with the Naval treaty limitations of the day and also the problems of...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: A big thanks to "consulting admirals" @jsb @Luminous @hipper @RamscoopRaider @steamboy for their stellar contributions to this thread. It would not be half as interesting without them! For the uninitiated, US hull classification symbols are used as abbreviations for ship...

This thread has two purposes; A) An AHC type challenge to make battleships and/or big-gun ships major surface combatants that are built and laid down post-ww2. The later they matter and the bigger they are, the better. B) A place for designs of post-ww2 battleships to be posted and discussed...

So I guess as the title says what if the dreadnought gets sunk by a lucky hit from a pre-dreadnought in a similar way to the Hood for it to have the most ramifications it would have to happen before dreadnoughts catch on so there would have to be some hypothetical war that would involve naval...

Simple question: would Bayern class battleships be usable during WW2, provided they receive some ofrm of modernization?

RN Capital ship WWI construction halts effect on WNT? What if the first Sea Lord cancels all post QE capital ship construction on 5th August 1914 due to not wanting to waste energy completing ships that are not needed for the short war coming? So the QEs are rushed as fast as OTL but the rest...