She’s been passed to developers as she appeared in 1945, just prior to having her funnel cut down and AA guns pulled off.
Anyway, she’d be way better than everything else save for maybe Scharnhorst if we got Nagato circa 1945.
That top picture is interesting though, is that another angle of the famous 3-ship photo from Brunei? I don’t believe I have this one yet.
I just don’t see that happening realistically. It never officially served with any nation, and was only developed and produced by a company within the US. By all rules it should at the very least be in the US tree first, before being added to any other nation.
In the Air Superiority stream, he said that one was in development and might have come in that update, and since it didn’t, it stands to reason that we’ll get it in this one.
Thinking about it now, it would make sense if it was and that the list saying only France and the UK would get it was a preliminary one from before Air Superiority was released and the German one was planned for then.