Battleship New Jersey (YouTube Channel) on the 1930s Gibbs & Cox Battleships

[Graham1973]

Two videos covering the 1930s battleship designs created by Gibbs & Cox for the Soviet Union, the last of which (Design 'D') would have given the Russians something capable of going toe-to-toe with an Iowa Class battleship...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjud8wGaNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz1sU50WAE8

[heuhen]

one of them are in the archive already, been there a while, the other one are similar to Project 23 Sovetsky Soyuz

[Graham1973]

Thank's for finding that one I was not aware of it's existence and there are some significant differences between Design 'D' and the Pr. 23 battleships.

For one thing Gibbs & Cox went for a 'sting-in-the-tail' by making C turret a quadruple mount for another, the Sovetsky Soyuz owed more to the Italian Littorio Class than Design 'D'.

[odysseus1980]

Any idea about the air wing of that thing?