Hmm ... if you're going to modernize everything while keeping big main guns, and given that the secondary guns have clearly been replaced with fewer, more modern, rapid-firing guns ... why not do the same with the main guns too? Instead of the traditional three triple turrets, have just a few very large and powerful, yet still rapid-firing guns. Given modern fire control and direction, and possibly shooting guided projectiles, you shouldn't need the former greater number of guns to ensure you get hits.
Hmm ... if you're going to modernize everything while keeping big main guns, and given that the secondary guns have clearly been replaced with fewer, more modern, rapid-firing guns ... why not do the same with the main guns too? Instead of the traditional three triple turrets, have just a few very large and powerful, yet still rapid-firing guns. Given modern fire control and direction, and possibly shooting guided projectiles, you shouldn't need the former greater number of guns to ensure you get hits.
This image reminds me of the scene of the Japanese fleet in San Francisco in The Man in the High Castle
The yamato on that movie still have ww2 aa that is completely useless 20 y later, and the fact japan has oil problem on that what if world, it's idk. Like they built 6 full yamato class battleship but dont realise those ships single handley are drain oil at much faster rate, and this is true about this class of battleship that why they are the worst. Iowa better. I don't see this as an alternative future, but more like what-if Yamato was kept and rebuilt on a modern battleshp design style
Hmm ... if you're going to modernize everything while keeping big main guns, and given that the secondary guns have clearly been replaced with fewer, more modern, rapid-firing guns ... why not do the same with the main guns too? Instead of the traditional three triple turrets, have just a few very large and powerful, yet still rapid-firing guns. Given modern fire control and direction, and possibly shooting guided projectiles, you shouldn't need the former greater number of guns to ensure you get hits.
No, absolutely no. Look Missouri and Wisconsin on 1991, with their main guns they were able to support the troops on land.
Hmm ... if you're going to modernize everything while keeping big main guns, and given that the secondary guns have clearly been replaced with fewer, more modern, rapid-firing guns ... why not do the same with the main guns too? Instead of the traditional three triple turrets, have just a few very large and powerful, yet still rapid-firing guns. Given modern fire control and direction, and possibly shooting guided projectiles, you shouldn't need the former greater number of guns to ensure you get hits.
Sure I guess you can design a new turret from scratch, for questionable benefit of increasing ROF on something doesn't need to shoot very fast. But, have you considered the fact that everyone lost the ability to make weapons of this size? The machinery long scrapped, engineers and workers dead from old age, and techinical documentation is rather "suggestions". You don't even need USSR style system collapse for it to happen. Look, for example, at Fogbank where US reportedly had to reverse engineer parts of its own strategic nuclear warheads(!).
