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ORIGINAL: Extraneous
Prior to the war it was a common notion that one nations battleships would be the world’s largest war ships.
Their standard displacement was to have been 59,150 tons (this would be larger than the Bismarck’s 50,000 tons) with a length of 260m, breadth of 38m and draft of 9.27m. With a nominal main engines capacity of 201,000 horsepower, the battleship could develop a speed of 28 knots. Her main battery was to have included ten 406mm (approximately 16 inch) weapons in three turrets. The main armor belt thickness reached 402mm. The battleships construction process took a very slow pace. Technical output plans were broken mainly due to constant delays in materials and equipment delivery.
Name the nation.
Warspite 1
This is I think to what you are referring, although they would not have been as big as the Yamatos.
[4478 Sovetskii Soyuz - by Robert Jenkins]
.B Engine(s) output: 231,000 hp
.B Top Speed: 28 knots
.B Main armament: 9 x 16-inch (406mm), 12 x 5.9-inch (150mm) guns
.B Displacement (full load): 65,150 tons
.B Thickest armour: 16.75-inch (belt)
.P This is a World In Flames "what if" counter that gives the Soviet player
the chance to build up to three battleships.
.P The Soviet Navy`s attempts at a modern replacement for the three remaining
Gangut-class battleships began in January 1938 when four battleships were
authorised to be built. These ships were of the Sovyetskiy Soyuz-class.
.P The design was influenced by the Italian shipbuilders Ansaldo, and indeed
would have used the same underwater protection system as employed by the Littorio
-class battleships.
.P These ships exceeded the limitations of the 1936 London Naval Agreement and as
a result, would have been powerful, well armed and very well armoured ships that
had a sensible anti-aircraft battery. In the absence of the H-class, they would
have put the German Navy at a disadvantage in the Baltic.
.P Only three of the four proposed ships were actually laid down and none were
even at the launch stage at the time of the German invasion in June 1941 as work
on these vessels had been halted at the end of the previous year.
.P The destinations of each ship is unknown but at least one would have served
with each of the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets.
< Message edited by warspite1 -- 8/25/2009 9:15:27 PM >
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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 
), one thing that has staggered me, is not the lack of information (in most cases), but the accuracy of information between various sources. I am using the excellent Conways as my main source of technical data (although even with these brilliant tomes, I have noticed some differences to other "respected" published material. At the end of the day, I have to plump with something - and am just choosing what I consider the most likely....right or wrong! 
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