Not “a couple”, but a week, yeah. Which is way less than the 5 years it took a single Battleship to be made.
I am also taking older tanks into account for the average, as this is a Ground vs Naval debate. Modern MBTs may take longer than WW2 tanks, yes- which were built even faster than the average I mentioned.
Just think about this; 50,000 Sherman tanks were made in the same span 4 Iowa-Class Battleships were made.
80,000+ T-34s were made as well.
Later, around 100,000 T-54/55s.
It is obvious that it takes an insignificant fraction of the time and resources to build a tank compared to a Battleship.
Therefore, it is not the same for a tank not to even make out of the design table as a Battleship ceasing construction after 6 months of tireless work.
H-41 was the last seriously designed ship; they had pretty complete blueprints for her, and her design phase was mostly complete. So I could see H41 being added later down the line. 42-44 are all design studies that were never seriously designed or considered. Alsace as a design, was never finished and was never finalized, so she’s out anyway. And A-150 is just an information black hole at the moment.
All that said, plans allegedly existed to 1:1 replace the 46cm guns on the Yamato with the twin 51cm guns. So there may be an avenue to get the 51cm gun in game a la Gneisenau.
THIS is what im most worried about, just what will gaijin actually make up for sevastopol’s 380mm shells if the kron’s 305mm already perform better than some 14-15 inch shells? and better yet:
while im not sure this is still the case, but years ago a datamine found that russian 12 inch guns had much better accuracy than other nations’ 12 inch guns, with it (as per the dataminer’s comment) being comparable to US 5 inch guns.
will the russian 380mm guns be more accurate than the competition? firing a shell that is conveniently stronger than the competition? i just cant really trust the snail with that
Doesn’t the Sevastopol’s mounts lack the power assisted loading due to weight concerns? That would mean that she would get a longer firerate compared to the others.
lets hope gaijin will adhere to that and not make up anything for the sevastopol gun handling.
i have this feeling they will either misconstrue or bend the stats in a way that will be most convenient for it like what they did with PK’s SAP shell (during when SAP was the meta)
I mean the Sevastopol lacked a lot of things… Not even a completed hull so who could say what loading mechanism could be used. 27s is the usual firing cycle.