Originally posted by TopHatter
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I really think the best comparision for a battle cruiser versus a big heavy cruiser is armour scheme and looking at its armament compared to a battleship built at around the same time frame.
As to the people who were looking at 3 years. Even in the fastest building periods those ships would be considered contemporaries. It'd be more questionable if you were looking at the end of a class and new class. Not so much contemparies then especially if it was a longer lived class with out a rearming.
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