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realswat
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Exeter
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13.01.2017 07:57:34
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WWI; Флот;
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Он их изобрёл де-факто.
У Г.Стаффа это есть:
On 17 May 1906, two weeks before the first report from the London naval attaché about the British Invincible, the Kaiser launched a competition between the German shipyards for a ‘fast battleship’ type. This new type crystallised the Kaiser’s ideas regarding the new direction in warship construction, that these ships should form a division for special purposes, and also serve as reconnaissance cruisers. Therefore, compared to foreign contemporary battleships, they should have a speed advantage of 3kts and should mount at least four 28cm guns so they could fight in the line. The new battleships of the Ersatz Bayern/Nassau class should form the basis of the new type.
State Secretary von Tirpitz was against this competition because he feared the possible political and financial consequences of a new conceptual type, and the development of a new type would place great burdens on the already overworked staff in the imperial dockyards at Kiel, Wilhelmshaven and Danzig. Likewise, the General Navy Department, or (A), and the construction department, or (K), were fully employed in work for the battleships of the Ersatz Bayern class and preparations for the new cruiser of 1907. Nevertheless, the competition showed a remarkable farsightedness by the Kaiser and he was clearly ahead of his time in regard to type development.