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Originally Posted by lwd
While her guns are a bit out of date nothing else was.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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US naval vessels of the period were better equipped jammer wise. Cruisers and larger all carried a range of various radar and electronics jamming equipment along with an extensive ESM suite. In the British case this was hit and miss depending on the ship and its location.
While the
Vanguard was an improvement on the KGV she still had some of that class' weaknesses, particularly the torpedo defense system.
Aganist the
Bismarck or
Tirpitz Vanguard would have faired pretty well even with the outdated main battery she carried. Against the French
Richelieu class this would have been a tougher call, particularly after being refitted in the US as they were.