Thread: HMS Vanguard?
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Old April 19th, 2008, 05:26 PM
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Default re: HMS Vanguard?

While her guns are a bit out of date nothing else was. I've read (on line so take it for what it's worth) that the British BBs were the only ones that carried jammers to take out opposing BBs fire control radars. If that's the case and given tha she'd have a very good radar suite she'd be up near the top in any battle that favored radar fire control. If you take crew quality into considration she rates even better compaired to the Germans as the British had a big pool of experianced high quality sailors. The German (and for that matter other axis) sailors may have been good material but they didn't get much sea time especially late in the war.
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