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Uss Vermont IV-3

2,019 KaiserGrobeIV  3.3 years ago
Auto Credit Based on PatKun13's Modern Fast Battleship Hull (Mobile Friendly)

The "maximum battleships", also known as the "Tillman Battleships", were a series of World War I-era design studies for extremely large battleships, prepared in late 1916 and early 1917 to the order of Senator "Pitchfork" Benjamin Tillman by the Bureau of Construction and Repair (C&R) of the United States Navy. The Navy was not interested in the designs and drew them up to win support from the Committee on Naval Affairs, on which Tillman sat. Nevertheless, they helped influence design work on the Pennsylvania and first South Dakota classes of battleships. The plans prepared for the senator were preserved by C&R in the first of its "Spring Styles" books, where it kept various warship designs conceptualized between 1911 and 1925.
Controls:
1 vtol/trim 457mm guns
2 vtol/trim 127mm secondary guns
3 roll to turn
4 vtol/trim 40mm aa guns
Throttle to move forward, Brake to reverse
Top speed is 36 - 37 knots
This is just a fictional design based on both the "Maximum battleships" and the Iowa class
(All credits go to the original builders)

Spotlights

General Characteristics

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.059
  • Wing Loading 2,750.3lbs/ft2 (13,428.0kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 910.9ft2 (84.6m2)
  • Drag Points 263807

Parts

  • Number of Parts 803
  • Control Surfaces 2
  • Performance Cost 3,154