Alternate WW2 Navies

The turrets would have to be ordered. Look at the Tennessee and the Colorado.
The ships would have to be completly redesigned, the barbettes heavily modified and strengthened, Hull strengthened, (possibly hull lengthened), new engines, new guns, probably increased bilge keels to make the ship steadier, new FI, new superstructure.
All this is going to cost WAY to much money. And they will still be fuck slow.
You would be much better off scrapping them and building new ships, instead of wasting so much money on an old ship that you are going to scrap in a few years anyway.
 
The ships would have to be completly redesigned, the barbettes heavily modified and strengthened, Hull strengthened, (possibly hull lengthened), new engines, new guns, probably increased bilge keels to make the ship steadier, new FI, new superstructure.
All this is going to cost WAY to much money. And they will still be fuck slow.
You would be much better off scrapping them and building new ships, instead of wasting so much money on an old ship that you are going to scrap in a few years anyway.
Yeah as early as 1933 the US was considering just scrapping the Nevada and Pennsylvania classes and doing a Vanguard with the turrets

If the Later standards had been designed from the beginning for swapping out triple 14" to twin 16" it might be possible with a moderate rebuild not a major one, but they weren't
 
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