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Battleship/Related Articles
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Parent topics
- John Arbuthnot Fisher [r]: British admiral (1841-1920), considered the creator of the industrialized Royal Navy [e]
- Alfred Thayer Mahan [r]: The leading naval theorist of the late 19th and early 20th century, basing the concept of a "fleet in being" as a fundamental determinant of history [e]
- Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
- HMS Dreadnought (1905) [r]: The first "all-big-gun" battleship, obsoleting all others in the world when built, yet having very little actual combat role [e]
Subtopics
Technology
- Armor (naval) [r]: Heavy metal plate to provide passive protection against gunfire; obsolete for modern vessels, which do not face heavy gun threats, but emphasize defense against missiles as well as protection against underwater explosions [e]
- Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. [e]
- Turret [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Survivability (naval) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battlecruiser [r]: A large warship with guns comparable to those of a battleship, equal or greater speed, but less armor; "can catch what it can kill and run away from what can kill it"; had disastrous experiences when fighting true battleships [e]
- Monitor (naval) [r]: Add brief definition or description
National classes
Germany
- Bismarck-class [r]: Two-ship class of German battleships, optimized for commerce raiding and short Atlantic operations so extremely rugged; 8 x 15" guns with large secondary batteries; DKM Bismarck and DKM Tirpitz [e]
Japan
- Fuso-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ise-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kongo-class battleship [r]: A class of originally British-designed Japanese battleships, the first of which was built in a British shipyard in the 1910s; the class was initially rated as battlecruisers but were upgraded between the wars [e]
- Yamato-class [r]: Largest (71,000 ton) battleship class of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the largest but not necessarily most combat-effective ever built; all sunk in combat by U.S. forces (including IJN Shinano, a Yamato-class hull converted to an aircraft carrier) [e]
UK
US
- South Dakota-class [r]: A four-ship class of 35,000 ton U.S. Navy battleship begun just before the Second World War; more compact and better protected than the preceding North Carolina-class, but had the same main battery of nine 16"-45 caliber MK 6 naval guns in triple turrets [e]
- Iowa-class [r]: The last class of battleships deployed by any navy; these were U.S. Navy vessels launched during WWII and played a role in anti-air warfare and naval gunfire support; later conversions kept them in use as missile-launching platforms; all 4 retired [e]
- Montana-class [r]: A cancelled class of U.S. battleships, slower and more heavily gunned and armored than the Iowa-class [e]
- Command of the sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense [e]
