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1/700 USS Oregon (1920) 6'' Secondary Mounts
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This model represents a sketch design from a Japanese publication describing it as the following battleship design after the South Dakota class laid down in 1920. This ship would be armed with eight 18'' guns and 6'' secondaries in three twin mounts, built upon a South Dakota hull. This sketch is in all likelihood a product of faulty intelligence: officially, by the time the Washington Treaty put an end to capital ship construction, no follow up to the South Dakotas were considered; that aside, this particular sketch seems to be based on a 1922 battleship design study by the USN, which was a straight copy of South Dakota but with the aforementioned four twin 18'' turrets. However every other aspect of the design was identical, except for a slight increase in displacement accounting for the heavier main battery. These design studies were not aimed at seriously considering the following step in battleship evolution, but for the Navy to weigh what was desired from the next iteration against what was practically viable and what was actually allowed for by funding and infrastructure (and by treaties later on).
It is not without precedence, however, for the USN to upgrade their designs in such a way: the same was done for the Colorado class, which were virtually a repeat Tennessee but with four twin 16'' turrets instead of four triple 14'' ones.
Further, the Japanese (with the Anglo-Japanese alliance still a thing) would have likely been influenced by British preliminary designs for what would have been the G3 and N3, which all had secondary gun mounts on deck, and simply assumed the Americans would be following the same pattern.
That said, the two ships of the Nebraska class, Nebraska and Oregon, represent a hypothetical interpretation of the sketch design using the same hull as the South Dakota, with the 6''/53 twin gun mount as fitted to the Omaha class for the secondary battery, and eight 3'' AA guns in the superstructure.
Oregon represents the class as could have been completed in the early 1920s, while Nebraska has been modified to a hypothetical 1944 reconstruction, similar in style to West Virginia in the late war.
It is not without precedence, however, for the USN to upgrade their designs in such a way: the same was done for the Colorado class, which were virtually a repeat Tennessee but with four twin 16'' turrets instead of four triple 14'' ones.
Further, the Japanese (with the Anglo-Japanese alliance still a thing) would have likely been influenced by British preliminary designs for what would have been the G3 and N3, which all had secondary gun mounts on deck, and simply assumed the Americans would be following the same pattern.
That said, the two ships of the Nebraska class, Nebraska and Oregon, represent a hypothetical interpretation of the sketch design using the same hull as the South Dakota, with the 6''/53 twin gun mount as fitted to the Omaha class for the secondary battery, and eight 3'' AA guns in the superstructure.
Oregon represents the class as could have been completed in the early 1920s, while Nebraska has been modified to a hypothetical 1944 reconstruction, similar in style to West Virginia in the late war.
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