Displacement: (700,000 tons planned) 462,750 tons light; 484,920 tons standard; 560,057 tons normal service; 617,927 tons full load
Dimensions:
Length: 2,000’ (609.60m)
Beam: 300’ (91.44m)
Draft: 55’ (16.75m)
Armament:
Main: 8 – 31.5” (80cm) Gustav siege guns (4 x 2)
Secondary: 12 – 9.45”/73 (24cm) Long Range AA guns (12 x 1)
Tertiary: 24 – 5.04”/60 (12.8cm) AA guns (12 x 2)
Light: 5.5cm/77 Gerat 58, 30mm AA guns
(Broadside = 131,574 lbs/59,631 kg)
Aircraft: 15 aircraft
Armor:
Belt: 14.96” (380mm) Deck: 14.96” (380mm)
Turrets: 25.96” (660mm) Conning tower: 24.8” (630mm)
Machinery: 8 shafts, (480,000 shp planned) 498,735 shp/372,057 kw
Performance: 28 knots; Range: 30,000 nm @ 20 knots
Complement: (5,000 planned) 10,236 – 13,307
Distribution of weights:
Armament: 16,425 tons = 2.9%
Armor: 158,660 tons = 28.3%
Machinery: 11,931 tons = 2.1%
Hull, fittings & equipment: 274,955 tons = 49.1%
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 97,307 tons = 17.4%
Miscellaneous weights: 750 tons = 0.1%
This is a 700,000 ton German battleship built to carry a battery of eight 80 cm/31.5 guns, the siege gun Gustav. This is strictly a flight of fancy taken from remarks made by Hitler that he wanted to mount 80 cm guns on the H-class. It was estimated that it would take a 700,000 ton ship to mount them.
Rate of fire for the main battery would be quite slow, one round per gun every five minutes or more while the AA defense would be much more rapid. The AP shell weighed over 15,000 lbs with 441 lbs of burster while the HC shell weighed over 10,000 lbs with 882 lbs of burster.
The 24 cm/73 AA armament was based upon a Kriegsmarine late war study to develop a land based high altitude gun firing a 300 plus pound shell up to 59,000 feet. It is possible that a 700,000 ton ship could carry twelve of these in single double purpose mounts, partly to make up for the slow rate of fire of the 80cm main battery and to engage cruisers.
The 5"/60 were probably Germany's best AA weapon at the end of the war and would have served this mastodon well.
There is no detail information regarding the ship’s power plant. The total SHP required for a ship of this size dictated at least 8 shafts. Based on the extended range of these ships it would appear that a portion of the power plant was diesel.
Eventhough Schwere Gustav and Dora had caliber lengths of 40 calibers.
The Fuhrer uses the naval standard 52cal 800mm guns.
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@aplayer yes
Is this German Super Battleship H45 Führer? @RussianAS
@InternationalAircraftCompany nein, Deutschland will not let me nor do I want to.
That thing basically describes something that i designed on paper. Except that it has only 2 800mm cannons.
do it comrade @Stellarlabs
@InternationalAircraftCompany
I don’t have one.
I embrace my Germanic things
If they built it and the war ended, how long do you think it would be before the British/ Americans cut it up for scrap?
Do not fear comrade, embrace your inner stalin @Stellarlabs
But dang this ship would have been hard to build, plus where would it go for repairs?
We would have never had or it would be unlikely that we would have the Space shuttle if it weren’t for this space Bomber, since it used many of sänger’s ideas for The Antipodel Bomber
@InternationalAircraftCompany you offended the German
You know the planned space bomber
Besides that what about the sänger Bomber?
This sounds like something that russians would make after having too much stronk communism filled vodka @Stellarlabs
@RussianAS
You have made this German happy. This German likes to see explosions
Tell me.... When you hear this does it frighten you the fact that Germany has great power in machinery?
@RailfanEthan Excuse me, can I be more specific? I'm simply going to publish now
Would never had worked, youd have no shipyard to construct it unless ut was preassembled like the cargo ships of today.
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