Swedish Hangarkryssare of 1946

Anybody found the 150mm triple turret armed varuant of this carrier proposal?
 
Tzoli said:
Here the ship drawing shows a 2x3 210mm armed Battlecarrier or Carrier with Guns:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/swedish-hangarkryssare-of-1946.24613/#post-614809 While the turret drawing shows the same turret but with 15cm guns.
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I always assumed that 210-mm was either a mistake, or merely a proposal "we could put heavier guns in there, if needed". As far as I know, Sweden did not have 8-inch gun in production by late 1940s. And the turret itself looks like triple 152-mm/53 turret (the bow triple on Tre Kronor-class)
 
Well, the barrel gap telling me those aren't 15cm, but a 21cm turret and in fact there is another Swedish monitor/coastal ship project with triple 21cm turret somewhere (unless i mistake one with triple 35cm turret).
 
alexi said:
Well, the barrel gap telling me those aren't 15cm, but a 21cm turret and in fact there is another Swedish monitor/coastal ship project with triple 21cm turret somewhere (unless i mistake one with triple 35cm turret).
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Actually two, an 1941 and a 1945 design both with 1 triple 21cm (presumably 209mm) turret
Also 3 Coastal Defence Ship designs:
Design C-2, C-4 and Design 1945. The former two had 33 twin the latter 2 triple turrets with that calibre
Also a heavy cruiser design from 1932 with 3 twin turrets (Svensksund Design 1937 Version 2)
 
Tzoli said:
If you ever come to see or read about a very large Bofors mount of 16 barrels, that would be awesome!

In Friedman's "British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After" he mentions that DNO proposed in 1947 a quadruple 3in gun, and previously a sixteen-barrel (sexdecuple) Bofors for high rates of fire against modern aircraft and missiles.
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The part from Friedman's book about the 16-barrel Bofors mounting:
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I wonder if there were quantified considerations on the effect of firing those guns on surrounding flight deck? Like wouldn't it distort the whole thing?
 
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Martes said:
I wonder if there were quantified considerations on the effect of firing those guns on surrounding flight deck? Like wouldn't it distort the whole thing?
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No because the Lexingtons carried 8" guns in 4 twin turrets on both ends of the superstructure before their modernization and they had no issues.
Blast issue on deck starts to get serious like above 10" or 24/25cm calibre.
 
Tzoli said:
Blast issue on deck starts to get serious like above 10" or 24/25cm calibre.
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Ah, I once had a very similar idea, but I wanted to put 12-14" guns under the deck and was thoroughly dissuaded at the time. :)

But if, as you say, 8" could actually work, it could've been very interesting.
 

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