They didn’t. But they could’ve. Do you agree or disagree?
Also they did finish a bunch of hulls / some superstructures.
Could have maybe but probably not the way the ship is in the game which is the problem, on one side you have ships that were subject to reality and formed by that and on the other side you have pipe dreams.
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Stop going around answering the question. Yes. Or no.
Its not a yes or no question.
Yes they could have finished it in some form. (Maybe)
No they couldnt in the way its portrayed in the game.
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There you go avoiding the question yet again.
Yes or no. Could the Soviet Government produce a battleship of that caliber?
(Given a far smaller and far weaker country, Japan, produced the Biggest BB in history).
You refuse to answer, because you know the answer is Yes
The simple answer is no, even BEFORE THE WAR soviets could not produce armor to the thickness of the in game one
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Then i go with no, because theres no proof that they could evidenced by the fact that they didnt build any heavy ships.
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Both you and @Rennie1018129-live
Say no. Which I find funny. When the Soviet people were invaded by Germany did they just roll over and take it?
Or did they put up the best fight they had, and adapted and overcame their adversary? (Or problem).
Did you fail to conveniently read the before the war part
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What does that have to do with anything lol
You can say whatever you want about japans power but they were a naval superpower evidenced by the amount and size of ships they built. The soviets werent. Industrial might doesnt 1to1 translate from one sector to the other.
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Before, after, during.
It wouldn’t matter.
Baseline is, people see a problem and solve it.
You two keep going on tangents because you simply cannot admit it is more than feasible they could’ve made the SovetSky.
If the soviets had such a good shipbuilding industry why did Italy build the tashkent
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Yes and no.
Metal was salvaged from projects like Kronstadt and SovetSky to build thousands of T-34s and so on.
So to simply say one does not affect the other is false.
That’s why Japan’s tank development was so poor. Because they’re prioritized the navy.
The answer to this should be obvious
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sigh
Blissful ignorance goes a long way
Omfg, yes you can use ship steel in tanks but you cant build a battleship in a tank factory and neither does building tanks translate into building ship components. Being able to poorly weld together a T34 doesnt mean that you can build KCA plates thicker than 230mm
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If the soviets had such a good shipbuilding industry why were none of the wartime losses replaced in a timely fashion, if the soviets had such a good shipbuilding industry why did they buy a german cruiser hull, i can go on and on
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Where did I ever declare either of those? Putting fictional words in my mouth is a poor argument.
Those “poorly” welded T-34s did more than other nations’ tanks.
And yes you cannot build a tank in a plane factor or a ship in a tank factory.
Again the truths you two conveniently continue to ignore are:
- They already were quite thoroughly into the hull production
- People overcome obstacles, especially during a wartime event.
Your entire argument is based on “couldve”, i am giving examples of when they couldn’t do it before ww2 even started, nothing fake about what im saying the documentation and pictures of the ships speak for themselves
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Yes they had 15818 metric tons of steel assembled but none of the important hard parts, not the initially planned armor, no actual turret, no loading mechanism, no machinery, no fire control.
Well evidently not since neither during the war did they make any major progress and major surface shipbuilding in the USSR massively lacked behind after the war pretty much until this day.
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