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I have redone the fire control radars, the number of main guns, the number of turbines, type of turbines and I have edited the numbers of 5 inch gun turrets on the Gornikovna class cruiser.

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Hi Ace,

Many thanks for the explanation, makes much more sense now. Would a turbo-electric design be able to drop SSTGs by way of compensation for the clunky electric transmission?

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Adam

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well, that would be an IEP system, and IIRC that was not done because of the even clunkier converters and electric control equipment of the time. computers made that possible these days

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I have a question,
Can someone tell me what SSTG, IEP and IIRC stand for ?
I am really bad with acronyms

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SSTG: ship service turbine generators
IEP: integrated electric propulsion
IIRC: If I recall correctly

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Is it really feasible to have 20 guns on either of your ships? The most 8in guns I've heard about have been 8 or 9, twelve could be done, but 20 seems over the top. And I've heard of only 15 6in guns being the most. Maybe the light cruiser could get away with that many, but the heavy cruiser has over twice as many guns as other heavy cruisers of that time. I wouldn't even consider it a heavy cruiser anymore with that heavy an armament, seems more like a low caliber battlecruiser. Also, you seem to have the most numerous and powerful navy on earth in your au, and it would seem you have more warships than most of the other major powers combined. How plausible is this? The cost must be astronomical. Just my humble opinion.

Thanks for the acronym guide, Ace.
I have reduced the number of guns on the Gornikovna

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Kunetova class Aircraft Carrier
This class was the replacement for the Vostok class aircraft carrier. The class was named after the state capital of Kunetova, Kunetova. It was the largest aircraft carrier class beating the Essex class. This is because Rossiyan needed an carrier that was capable of launching their larger and heavier carrier bombers. These carriers were carrying a hundred aircraft and armed with eighteen 5 inch guns. The secondary armaments of these carriers are 36x 90mm anti-air cannons, 64x50mm anti-air guns, 122x40mm anti-air cannons, 220x20mm anti-air guns. The aircraft carriers were also armoured with 5 inches of belt armour and 2 inches of deck armour. These carriers were powered by 10 heavy duty boilers powering 4 steam turbo-electric turbines creating 116MW or 155000 shp which gave the carriers a top speed of 33 knots. These carriers weighted 65,000 long tons. These carriers each were manned by 3450 sailors. There were 15 of these carriers.
This is how RFS Kunetova and how her sisters ship look like when they all appeared in 1942.

These carriers were then modernized in 1944 with upgrade of radars

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I am looking into this AU from the beginning. Your ships are not bad (just need "refinement" as experienced members suggest). However, my advice is to cut down ship number to reasonable numbers. For your carrier, 155000 hp could de developed by 8 boilers and 4 of your steam turbo-electric turbines. Many small steam turbines are much less effiecient than few large.

It's worth noting that as a turbo-electric ship, the number of turbines doesn't have to relate to the number of shafts at all, I think - you could just as easily have a single massive turbine and no redundancy whatsoever, though if you have diesel-electrics for hotel and cruising even that might be acceptable (I wouldn't personally, but I could see an argument of sorts for it).

Regards,
Adam

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