The Kongo class in WW2 - Battlecruiser or Fast Battleship?

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• DR

  @Drachinifel · 2 years ago · pinned

  Pinned post for Q&A :)

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• AG

  @AgingMillennial · 1 year ago

  A lot of young battlecruisers go through a rebellious phase where they identify as fast battleships. They get their decks armored and start wearing those tall pagoda masts like the battleships they know at school. Meanwhile their parents tell them that until they get their own naval base they better behave like battlecruisers in this harbor.

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• JO

  @johnbuchman4854 · 2 years ago

  They are not Battleships nor are they Battle cruisers: they are TORPEDO BOATS<br>Sincerely,<br>Kamchatka

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• VI

  @vicarus2728 · 2 years ago

  Drac explaining what is a Battlecruiser at this point can be marked as an annual event.<br><br>Maybe we should even make it into a holiday.

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• BL

  @blueboats · 2 years ago

  USS Washington: &nbsp;&quot;we can save time about terminology and go straight to empirical testing&quot;

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• CA

  @carltonbauheimer · 2 years ago

  Maybe the real battlecruisers are the friends we made along the way

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• ME

  @merlijnwiersma7801 · 2 years ago

  The undeniable fact is that all Kongos by July 1945 had been reclassified as submarines.

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• AT

  @ATW090 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Based on the classification of current Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, it is a heavy artillery destroyer

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• BI

  @Big_E_Soul_Fragment · 2 years ago (edited)

  Battle-Destroyer by JMSDF standards

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• DO

  @Dogbertious · 2 years ago

  Battlecruiser? Nah, clearly a large light cruiser.

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• AD

  @adrianjorgensen3750 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Fun fact Mt. Kongo or Kongo san sits on the boarder of Nara and Osaka prefectures, and is the tallest mountain on the five mountain Diamond Trail hiking course, which is a delight to hike.<br>Kongo san is also a sacred mountain, hence the use of san, and has a beautiful shrine on its peak.<br>And they’re clearly oversized corvettes.

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• TR

  @treyhelms5282 · 2 years ago

  Drach: &quot;What is a battlecruiser?&quot;<br>Me: &quot;I&apos;ll do you one better. WHERE is a battlecruiser?&quot;

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