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Description
You have Tsar Bell, Tsar Cannon, even the Monstrous Tsar Bomba.
If this vessel was constructed it would have been named Tsar Battleship.

(How do you say "Tsar Battleship" in Russian?)

This 50,000 ton vessel, designed in 1914, has 16 x 16 Inch guns and is seen here firing all of them.
Imagine lobbing 16 tons of steel and explosives 20 miles away...
I feel sorry for whosoever is at the receiving end of this Giant.

This ship had it's true roots in Italy.
After the Russia's disasterous loss in the Battle of Tsushima 1905 it faced the monumental task of rebuilding it's entire fleet. Not a cheap thing to do...

The Russians were interested in the theories of the "all big gun" Battleship that came from this man: Vittorio Cuniberti
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He advocated the construction of cramming as much big buns that can be carried on a small hull as possible at the expense of the smaller guns.
When Cuniberti advocated this theory all battleships were constructed looking like this;
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The reason for his theory is advantages in long range fire and a centralized Fire control system that aims for all big guns that all have the same range.
Small startup navies were interested in getting more guns on similar hulls.
Britain which had a whole fleet of Pre-Dreadnoughts didn't want anything to do with it (Out of fear that her whole fleet might become obsolete overnight and it did too), except for a Brit by the name of Fisher.

Italy designed the First Triple turret Battleship in the World based on Cuniberti's filosophy.
Dante Alighieri
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Russia was immediatly sold and bought the design which resulted in the Gangut class Battleship, Imperatritsa Mariya class battleship and the
Borodino class battlecruiser.

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This vessel of 50,000 tons is Cuniberti's filosophy stretched to the stratosphere.
It was a design study of 1914 and in fact deemed too BIG for Baltic operations... Well this time the Tsar wasn't so megalomatic.

Info of this design can be found here;

[link]

info on it's gun here;

[link]

Description
You have Tsar Bell, Tsar Cannon, even the Monstrous Tsar Bomba.
If this vessel was constructed it would have been named Tsar Battleship.

(How do you say "Tsar Battleship" in Russian?)

This 50,000 ton vessel, designed in 1914, has 16 x 16 Inch guns and is seen here firing all of them.
Imagine lobbing 16 tons of steel and explosives 20 miles away...
I feel sorry for whosoever is at the receiving end of this Giant.

This ship had it's true roots in Italy.
After the Russia's disasterous loss in the Battle of Tsushima 1905 it faced the monumental task of rebuilding it's entire fleet. Not a cheap thing to do...

The Russians were interested in the theories of the "all big gun" Battleship that came from this man: Vittorio Cuniberti
[link]

He advocated the construction of cramming as much big buns that can be carried on a small hull as possible at the expense of the smaller guns.
When Cuniberti advocated this theory all battleships were constructed looking like this;
[link]

The reason for his theory is advantages in long range fire and a centralized Fire control system that aims for all big guns that all have the same range.
Small startup navies were interested in getting more guns on similar hulls.
Britain which had a whole fleet of Pre-Dreadnoughts didn't want anything to do with it (Out of fear that her whole fleet might become obsolete overnight and it did too), except for a Brit by the name of Fisher.

Italy designed the First Triple turret Battleship in the World based on Cuniberti's filosophy.
Dante Alighieri
[link]

Russia was immediatly sold and bought the design which resulted in the Gangut class Battleship, Imperatritsa Mariya class battleship and the
Borodino class battlecruiser.

[link]
[link]
[link]

This vessel of 50,000 tons is Cuniberti's filosophy stretched to the stratosphere.
It was a design study of 1914 and in fact deemed too BIG for Baltic operations... Well this time the Tsar wasn't so megalomatic.

Info of this design can be found here;

[link]

info on it's gun here;

[link]