Blacktail
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I was reading about the Royal Navy's 16" gun project a while back on NavWeaps, which was initiated to arm the Lion class Fast Battleships (a project that ultimately came to grief, with none being built);
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_16-45_mk2.htm
It read like the usual summary of a cancelled warship gun project, until I reached the last paragraph, in which this jumped-out at me;
I nearly fell off my chair, learning that Britain repeatedly designed new Battleships all the way into 1949.
Does anyone have any information about these projects? Schematics perhaps?
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_16-45_mk2.htm
It read like the usual summary of a cancelled warship gun project, until I reached the last paragraph, in which this jumped-out at me;
It is notable that the Admiralty put serious effort into designing new battleships so late in the war. It has been suggested by John Roberts that this was the result of having almost all of the "air minded" senior officers located in the Far East during the final year of the war and thus unable to bring their considerable experience to the late-war design conferences. However, considering that work on designing new battleships and new heavy guns went on well past the end of the war and into 1949, it must be concluded that these obsolete warships still ranked highly in the thinking of the post-war Royal Navy.
I nearly fell off my chair, learning that Britain repeatedly designed new Battleships all the way into 1949.
Does anyone have any information about these projects? Schematics perhaps?