Originally posted by TopHatter
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The Alaska's were hard to compare to anyone elses ships, that led me to define light fast battleship and compare them to the Scharnhorst and Dukerque. They were clearly the least "battleship" like of the three - but much more battleship like than the Tennessee class AC's - which seem to be in the top rank of large cruisers. As far as battlecruisers - they were normally armed with contemporary battleship guns, and sacrificed protection, number of tubes or both to achieve greater speed. The Deuschlands (panzershifs) were another animal - a light battlecruiser or large cruiser? The media of the time labeled them "pocket battleships" and the "pocket" part was often forgotten by the public when the threat presented by these ships was brought up.
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