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Originally posted by Red Admiral
It even looks like a Dido class cruiser. Q mount has been eliminated and the bridge lowered and brought forwards to allow for aircraft stoage. So i figure you look the Dido dimensions, cut 1ft off the beam and 20ft off the length. The proliferation of boats give the idea that it will sink easily; a cockleshell cruiser and all round dogsbody?
What program do you use Hooman?
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Originally posted by Rooijen10
Because if that is the case, the 0-30m scale line (at 86 pixels) is too long (should be 75 pixels long). Also if you were to use 40x40, you'll get a design of 164.4 m x 17.2 m x 6.8 m with a normal displacement of around 9,800 tons (BC=0.5).
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Using the scale given on the picture , one pixel is actually 34.88 x 34.88 cm, giving you a ship that is 143.37 m x 15.00 m x 5.93 m. with a normal displacement of about 6400 tons with a BC of 0.5, which would be closer to what Pengolodh had (with a 6000-7000 NM range at 15 kts, Standard displacement would be around 5700 tons. A 10,000 NM range at 15 knots would put you under the 5,500 ton mark).
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Originally posted by HoOmAn
- I like small and fast cruisers more than big ones what you surely have noticed from older discussions so the DIDOs fitted in that sheme too.
- I also think there is not too much armor necessary on a cruiser. Studying the fights of WW2 one gets the impression that other things like redundancy of important systems is more important. So the ship got 2 main FC plus 4 specialized AA fire directors but somewhat thin armor.
I totally agree with what you are saying HoOmAn. I have also been designing a class of cruisers, which in some ways are very similar to what you got. What is different is that I had decided to dispense with armour completely, apart from rudimentary splinter protection around the magazines and armament. Their weight is also around 1000 tonnes less and will
be built to the same structurally standard as Destroyers.
The reason for this is that I had concluded that Greece not having far away territories and the associated extended sea lanes to patrol, did not require normal light cruisers. When I combined that thought with the fact that the treaty also limited the number of Type A destroyers to less then what I actually needed, I concluded that my light cruiser tonnage would best be utilised in the construction of a class of super destroyer/cruiser hybrids.
Once I complete the drawing for this class I will post it.
Harry
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