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Even the major navies built their 1850 ton late 1930's destroyer leaders/superdestroyers/destroyer destroyer.

Any cruiser or destroyer has to face the fact that it's likely to engage any combination of enemy cruisers and destroyers. Only the capital ships are screened and treated with kid gloves (sometimes). One way to resolve this issue is to build 16,000 ton cruisers with 6in armor. Another is... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (NewGolconda) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/sreply/71645 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:00:23 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/reply/71611/t/A-dedicated-destroyer-killer-to-work-in-with-other-ships-.html#reply-71611
http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/destroyer/spahkreuzer/tech.html
An argument... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Dave Bender) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/sreply/71611 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:59:27 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/reply/71599/t/A-dedicated-destroyer-killer-to-work-in-with-other-ships-.html#reply-71599 feeds@yuku.com (JonSidneyB) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/sreply/71599 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:51:05 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/reply/71587/t/A-dedicated-destroyer-killer-to-work-in-with-other-ships-.html#reply-71587 feeds@yuku.com (Dave Bender) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/sreply/71587 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:50:05 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/reply/71580/t/A-dedicated-destroyer-killer-to-work-in-with-other-ships-.html#reply-71580 feeds@yuku.com (splott) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/sreply/71580 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:40:01 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/reply/71567/t/A-dedicated-destroyer-killer-to-work-in-with-other-ships-.html#reply-71567
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_class_cruiser
The U.S. GDP is so large compared to everyone else that they can afford to build dozens of 12,000 ton Cleveland class cruisers. If you've got the cash then by all means build them. The expensive Cleveland class cruisers were great for killing DDs and great for AA... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Dave Bender) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/sreply/71567 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:07:48 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/reply/71560/t/A-dedicated-destroyer-killer-to-work-in-with-other-ships-.html#reply-71560 feeds@yuku.com (JonSidneyB) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/sreply/71560 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:17:51 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/reply/71557/t/A-dedicated-destroyer-killer-to-work-in-with-other-ships-.html#reply-71557 In other words, you want a ship armoured against 8" fire, but armed with 5-6" guns.
This is not good use of tonnage, IMHO.

The ultimate destroyer killer, even if a tad expensive, was the Atlanta class.

Borys ]]> feeds@yuku.com (borys68) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/sreply/71557 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:04:47 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/reply/71556/t/A-dedicated-destroyer-killer-to-work-in-with-other-ships-.html#reply-71556
Besides that, destroyers are hard hitting, but... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (E F Draaijers) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/sreply/71556 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:03:40 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/5589/t/A-dedicated-destroyer-killer-to-work-in-with-other-ships-.html
Lets say events unfold where the following are the facts.

Destroyers have been a major difficulty for operations of several types.

The current light cruisers were resonably successful at this task but fell victim to heavy cruiser fire.

This new ship is not designed to counter heavy cruisers but has to operate in an environment that is heavy in both destoryers and cruisers.

This... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (JonSidneyB) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/5589 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:45:11 GMT