First, it is not top ship anymore, there are Novorossiysk and Arkhangelsk in tree, and actually they are better choice.
Two. Britain and Japan. Olivia’s leak of Soyuz actually not seems like about this update, rather ‘start to develop’ as usual Olivia’s leak intend. And there are also Colorado in same leak list.
I actually did a report on that, which was accepted but has not been implemented. Reloads for all US superdreads should be anywhere between 2-2.5rpm based off irl firing trials. It had been thought previously that the rate of fire decreased after the 30s modernizations but I found a primary source document saying otherwise. I hope they do get around to changing it eventually as outside the reload the standards are a joy to play in my opinion.
I’ve asked HK a couple times and so far no news about them changing it. Perhaps once proper fast battleships start getting added it could be changed to keep them relevant(copium).
Or maybe the condition of such record is not under full salvo. Rodney’s record about 27 second is also denied because it is half-salvo and 30 second record of full salvo is only accepted, though they saids next update it will be changed(Rodney still has 40 seconds reload)
As near as I could tell working off the SRBP numbers for the recorded shoot I used in my report with Tennessee as an example, the shoot consisted of firing ~6 salvos worth of shells as fast as she could and derived rate of fire from there. The USN statistic did not list salvo interval in terms of time, but rather shots per gun per minute, with reload time being derived from that statistic. In that shoot Tennessee fired 71 shells with a derived SPGPM of 2.2, so it isn’t an issue of half salvos misrepresenting salvo interval.
Assuming that practice remained the same into the 30s, as it was still SRBP, these numbers improved into the 30s and per Jurens had to be ordered limited to 2.5spgpm to ensure safety.