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The history of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy's first and only Dreadnought battleships are a rather interesting and intriguing one!

The first formal meeting of new battleships for the Austro-Hungarian Navy was held on May 7th, 1908 by the MTK (Marinetechnische Komitee - Naval Technical Committee), Pola / Vienna the meeting was led by Rudolf von Montecuccoli degli Erri, and the official design contest was issued on July 6th, 1908 with the following requirements:
Displacement up to 20,000 tons,
8x 30,5cm Main Guns all on the centreline,
19 and 10cm medium and light guns,
armour belt of 230mm at the waterline and 250mm thickness of the barbettes.

In addition to Popper, two engineers, Franz Pitzinger and Theodor Novotny, presented their own drawings in the spring of 1910 when the original deadline expired. At this point, however, the detailed design of the Popper Plans was completed, and in November of last year, the contract was signed with STT for the construction of two ships. The designs of Pitzinger and Novotny were shoved to the depths of the archives, but they received cash compensation for their work.

Theodor Novotny's proposal shows some interesting design choices. The hull is flush deck but oval shaped resembling a cargo ship or the old pre-dreadnought battleship types of the other navies. The ten 30,5cm cannons distributed evenly in two twin and triple turrets forward and aft 15 and 10cm casemated guns were separated with the smaller ones located at the ends. But this desing's striking uniqueness was the large flying bridge protruding high from the main superstructure. The idea behind this is not entirely clear but probably to provide excellent positions for the command to crew to check the ship, the battle and to examine or watch the area around the ship.

Design date: 1910
Dimensions: 155 (wl) x 27 x 8,6m
Displacement: 20.000tons (standard)
Engines: 27.000shp Steam Turbines, 4 shafts
Speed: 39km/h (21knots)
Armour: 48mm Deck, 280mm Belt
Armaments:
2x3,2x2 30,5cm/50 Skoda K09 Cannons
16x1 15cm/50 Skoda K10 Casemated Guns
8x1 10cm/50 Skoda K10 Casemated Guns
2x1 7cm/45 Skoda K10 Guns (Probably)
4x1 53cm Underwater Torpedo tubes (Probably)

Original sketch drawing:
i.imgur.com/PtWGyGT.png

Description
The history of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy's first and only Dreadnought battleships are a rather interesting and intriguing one!

The first formal meeting of new battleships for the Austro-Hungarian Navy was held on May 7th, 1908 by the MTK (Marinetechnische Komitee - Naval Technical Committee), Pola / Vienna the meeting was led by Rudolf von Montecuccoli degli Erri, and the official design contest was issued on July 6th, 1908 with the following requirements:
Displacement up to 20,000 tons,
8x 30,5cm Main Guns all on the centreline,
19 and 10cm medium and light guns,
armour belt of 230mm at the waterline and 250mm thickness of the barbettes.

In addition to Popper, two engineers, Franz Pitzinger and Theodor Novotny, presented their own drawings in the spring of 1910 when the original deadline expired. At this point, however, the detailed design of the Popper Plans was completed, and in November of last year, the contract was signed with STT for the construction of two ships. The designs of Pitzinger and Novotny were shoved to the depths of the archives, but they received cash compensation for their work.

Theodor Novotny's proposal shows some interesting design choices. The hull is flush deck but oval shaped resembling a cargo ship or the old pre-dreadnought battleship types of the other navies. The ten 30,5cm cannons distributed evenly in two twin and triple turrets forward and aft 15 and 10cm casemated guns were separated with the smaller ones located at the ends. But this desing's striking uniqueness was the large flying bridge protruding high from the main superstructure. The idea behind this is not entirely clear but probably to provide excellent positions for the command to crew to check the ship, the battle and to examine or watch the area around the ship.

Design date: 1910
Dimensions: 155 (wl) x 27 x 8,6m
Displacement: 20.000tons (standard)
Engines: 27.000shp Steam Turbines, 4 shafts
Speed: 39km/h (21knots)
Armour: 48mm Deck, 280mm Belt
Armaments:
2x3,2x2 30,5cm/50 Skoda K09 Cannons
16x1 15cm/50 Skoda K10 Casemated Guns
8x1 10cm/50 Skoda K10 Casemated Guns
2x1 7cm/45 Skoda K10 Guns (Probably)
4x1 53cm Underwater Torpedo tubes (Probably)

Original sketch drawing:
i.imgur.com/PtWGyGT.png