Battleship/Related Articles

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John Arbuthnot Fisher [r]: British admiral (1841-1920), considered the creator of the industrialized Royal Navy ^[e]
Alfred Thayer Mahan [r]: The leading naval theorist of the late 19th and early 20th century, basing the concept of a "fleet in being" as a fundamental determinant of history ^[e]
Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. ^[e]
HMS Dreadnought (1905) [r]: The first "all-big-gun" battleship, obsoleting all others in the world when built, yet having very little actual combat role ^[e]

Armor (naval) [r]: Heavy metal plate to provide passive protection against gunfire; obsolete for modern vessels, which do not face heavy gun threats, but emphasize defense against missiles as well as protection against underwater explosions ^[e]
Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. ^[e]
Turret [r]: Add brief definition or description
Survivability (naval) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Battlecruiser [r]: A large warship with guns comparable to those of a battleship, equal or greater speed, but less armor; "can catch what it can kill and run away from what can kill it"; had disastrous experiences when fighting true battleships ^[e]
Monitor (naval) [r]: Add brief definition or description

Bismarck-class [r]: Two-ship class of German battleships, optimized for commerce raiding and short Atlantic operations so extremely rugged; 8 x 15" guns with large secondary batteries; KMS Bismarck and KMS Tirpitz ^[e]

Fuso-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ise-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
Kongo-class battleship [r]: A class of originally British-designed Japanese battleships, the first of which was built in a British shipyard in the 1910s; the class was initially rated as battlecruisers but were upgraded between the wars ^[e]
Yamato-class [r]: Largest (71,000 ton) battleship class of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the largest but not necessarily most combat-effective ever built; all sunk in combat by U.S. forces (including IJN Shinano, a Yamato-class hull converted to an aircraft carrier) ^[e]

South Dakota-class [r]: A four-ship class of 35,000 ton U.S. Navy battleship begun just before the Second World War; more compact and better protected than the preceding North Carolina-class, but had the same main battery of nine 16"-45 caliber MK 6 naval guns in triple turrets ^[e]
Iowa-class [r]: The last class of battleships deployed by any navy; these were United States Navy vessels launched during WWII and played a role in anti-air warfare and naval gunfire support; later conversions kept them in use as missile-launching platforms; all 4 retired ^[e]
Montana-class [r]: A cancelled class of U.S. battleships, slower and more heavily gunned and armored than the Iowa-class ^[e]