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Description
Notes: Spähkreuzer 1938 was the type name of a planned class of large destroyers or reconnaissance cruisers . This ship could be considered as a Destroyer but according to the Kaiserlich Marine , it is just a Light Cruiser.Class OverviewName: Spähkreuzer 1938–Class Grossflugzeugkreuzer
Builders: Helkvertlance and Harvard Shipyard
Operators:
- Auf Kaiserlich Marine (1939 - 1941)
- Occupied Aerah; Khavet Navy (1941 - 1942)
- Südliche Aerahwut Marine (1942 - Present)
Planned: 6
Built: 6
Ships in Class:
- CL-24; KM. SP1 (In-service)
- CL-25; KM. SP2 (In-service)
- CL-26; KM. SP3 (In-service)
- CL-27; KM. SP4 (In-service)
- CL-28; KM. SP5 (In-service)
- CL-29; KM. SP6 (In-service)
Successor: None
General Characteristics
Type: Light Cruiser
Displacement: 5,700 long tons (5,791 t)
Length: 475 ft (145 m)
Beam: 45 ft (14 m)
Draft: 15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion: 2 × MANN 6-cylinder diesel engines
Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range: 7,000 nmi (13,000 km) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement: 200
Armament:
- 6 × 5.9 in (150 mm) guns
- 2 × 88 mm AA
- 8 × 37 mm AA
- 8 × 20 mm AA
- 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Belt: 1 in (25 mm)
- Deck: 1 in (25 mm)
The Spähkreuzer 1938-Class and all of the South Aerah belongs to me .
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Comments: 11
I never could tell the difference between a destroyer and a cruiser. I've always imagined that a destroyer was smaller than a cruiser, though.
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They are smaller than a cruiser, this ship would probably be considered a destroyer cause how small it is, but I decided to put it as a light cruiser anyway haha.
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Thanks for clarifying that for me. As I said, I had always thought that destroyers were smaller than cruisers. I've also always been under the impression that there were several sizes of cruisers, light and heavy cruisers for example. In my writings, I also have a battle cruiser which is somewhere between a heavy cruiser and a battleship.
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Ah well, it really goes on how you consider it, heavy cruiser carries heavier guns and more armor. Battleships Super heavy guns and super heavy armor, lastly the battlecruiser Super heavy guns but light armor. It really depends on how you see it!
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Ah, I see. Well, in my case, I had envisioned each class of warship as being more heavily armored and more heavily armed, i.e. larger guns or more guns of smaller caliber. I really do like your warships, though. The Germans always seemed to be technologically more advanced than their enemies. Their problem, as much as anything else, was the size of the population of Germany. If Germany had had a population the size of the US, it likely would never have lost a war.
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Well, my Germany is called Aerah, and it has a population larger than actual Germany! But, in RP’s it has not had the best fortune. Plus my dream to create Hitlers dream “Plan Z.” For my country that is!
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That would explain the aircraft carriers that you've designed. I read something a few years ago that, one of Hitler's advisors suggested that he wait until Germany had at least one aircraft carrier before he began the war. I guess Hitler was a WEE bit too impatient. In fact, I understand that in 1938 or 39 Junkers was adapting the Stuka to be used on an aircraft carrier.
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