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Texes navy has prove a plan for calling buling to battlecruisers.Navy act 105 and follow with more Order was place with Texes navy start with Alaska Alaska follow by Renown fiist be commies in 2007 2 new battcruiser will be build eatch mounth getting the feet in build the fleet to strength follow the Alaska will be Navy law 107 allow more battlecruise and to be bulit with in 3 yrs Alaska class and the Hood battlecruise have 15 for alaska and 18-inch for guns For the Hood and Scharnhorst class battlecruise The plain is to bulid up to 29 of this ships fot the texes navy The armor has be appovel on upon on the old desgin Armor protection was improved, the belt being sloped at 15 degrees to present incoming projectiles with a greater thickness of armor for them to penetrate The second armament consisted of ten 6.1-inch guns on each beam located in casemates on the upper and forecastle decks
is 80,000 tons lengh is 787ft beam is 91.7
draught 25.5 ft . propulsion is 8 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers
4 x General Electric steam turbines total output 150000shp speed is 33 knots
Range 12000NM @ 15kts Fuel 3619 tons oil Shafts 4 Armour Belt: 13.8-7
C.T.: 10"
Turrets: 5" - 12"
Deck: 1.4" - 4"
Main guns 9 x 12"/50 (3 x 3)
Torpedo tubes None
Other weapons 56 x 40mm (14 x 4)
34 x 20mm
Complement:
477
Secondary guns
1 x 5" FMC gun
2 x 3" guns in single mountings
2 x 21" torpedo tubes in the transom
1 x Mk10 twin arm launcher for Standard SM1 SAM and ASROC (60 rounds in total
Radar:
Raytheon SPS49 air search
2 x Sperry SPG55B Standard fire control
Sonar:
SQS23 hull mounted
Four SRBOC decoy launchers were fitted
2 x Mk26 twin arm launchers for Standard SM2 SAM (80 rounds in total)
2 x quad Harpoon SSM launchers (8 rounds in total)
2 x Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft Facilities:
A hangar and helipad is provided for two SH-60 helicopters and aslo
4 fixed Wings Arado Ar-109 figher planes