General History: Lexington class battlecruiser
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Today's video will, as a companion to the ongoing series, cover the Lexington-class battlecruisers. These ships would be the only American battlecruisers laid down, though they were never completed. Thin-skinned and fast, they were the original British concept taken to its logical endpoint, in many ways, though even the British never showed such an obsession with raw speed.
Perhaps the most important legacy of these ships, however, was the work that Lexington and Saratoga did after conversion into aircraft carriers.
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Really enjoy your educational videos and your knowledgeable opinions. There has been a continuing discussion concerning USS Alaska and USS Guam. I would really enjoy an educational video with your opinions concerning these 2 ships. The discussion revolves around whether they were battle cruisers, extra long heavy cruisers, super cruisers or cruiser killers. I would really like to hear your take on what I believe were magnificent ships and it was a waste of treasure to scrap them. It would have been amazing if they still existed and President Reagan had recommissioned them along with the Iowa class battleships in the 80s. I cannot wait for this video. Thank You, Joe
I like your presentation style with the personal twist.
"We're fine. Just taking a sharp left and . . . holy geeze!"
'Fewer," not "less guns..." Great vid!
Less many guns 🤡
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You have made points for further thought. I didn’t know that the Brits had made a very recent build available for the USN study hour? Hood was the king of the British Navy. I doubt they would let away one look at the biggest stud in the water of an navy. I guess all that changed when they were sending most of the fleet for repairs. This would included “blueprints “ for all their ships. That included their newest complete battleships, Rodney & Nelson, their carriers, their destroyer’s etc. Come to think of it, if they were willing to pay the States to repair them, all secrets were on the table. Churchill was not the type to pass on hiding things as he needed all the resources he could get. He even shared the advances they made in way of radar and all radio equipment. Adm.
King still didn’t want the Brit’s any where near his fleet. Canada was not the “UNITED STATES of AMERICA”, and we didn’t have the resources nor the ship yards that the USA had. We didn’t have the manufacturing bases, as did the USA. We didn’t have the knowledge of building ships on the scale of the mass production that the States had. On the other hand, when we (Canada) had the chance to actually build a world dominating fighter aircraft (Avro Arrow), an advanced jet engine , to be the first country to produce the first jet airliner (the British comet beat us by 1wk). This all went belly up as everything, the fighter the airliner the jet engine was destroyed because we as a nation didn’t have the courage to compete, so the government waved a white flag and cancelled all three programs because we didn’t have a list of buyers, before we actually built enough for our own fleet, now that is pathetic. I guess there’s always something new to learn. Keep up the good work.
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Great video! Some of those early designs for the Lexingtons (i.e. the Super Kongous) looked really interesting. Now you've got me thinking up stuff for them hahaha.
I like them as aircraft carriers.
Great work Skynea, I really like the Lexington class BC design.
It would have been interesting if 2 of the hulls had been completed as battlecruisers, and the other 4 as aircraft carriers
The Lexington class is my hands down favorite US ship design.
You work fast, I have to say :D
I agree, it would have been great to see these collosal steam armoured speed boats.
Would you say that US Navy conceived of them as a counter to the Kongos, at least primarily?
The US also looked into a Battlecruiser version of Wyoming. Any information on that?
Death traps. Especially if they ever went up against the Amagi class or god forbid the G3’s.
The Lexingtons got stuck in irl devhell
Those spotting tops on the cage masts, tho. What are the odds they'd be in the path of rising smoke most days?
Super Kongo . . . how about "King Kongo"?
Good call!
You really think IJN could have afforded Kiis, let alone #13s?
Damn!!! I didn't know that there were Lexington class battle cruisers. All I know is the Lexington class aircraft carriers. Namely Lexington, Yorktown, and Saratoga.
Yorktown was a different class than Lex and Sara.
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Lead of the Yorktown class. Hornet and Enterprise were the other 2.