Hello all, new to this.
Something i have been pondering over for a while, what if, after jutland the admiralty instead of modifing hood and her sisters multiple times, completly redesign her to an early K2 design(looks like Hood but with 18 inch guns and better armour) I know 18 inch guns seem a bit radical, but considering fisher managed to get 18 inch guns on furious..
finished in, lets say early 1921, with her sisters cancelled as per OTL what effects might she have?
WNT is obviously different..
According to Friedman, 3 of the preliminary designs from March 1916 (Designs 4,5 and 6 with 4x, 6x and 8x18inch guns respectively) for Hood were designed with 18inch guns.
According to Friedman Hood seems to have been named so form early in the design process. It is therefore likely that her namesake was Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood, an 18th Century Admiral.As an aside: It never ceases to amaze me that the RN would have built a 48,000 warship, named it after a flag officer who died on a BC at Jutland because of poor protective design, and only gave her a MAX of 3" of deck armor. It is almost murder.
In regards to the 3 inch Deck Armour, the designer did not envision the advent of plunging fire after the First World War. In 1918 however the Admiralty produced designs with thicker upper belt and deck armour but to do so would reduce the protected area. Only an extra inch would be added to the deck armour anyway.