Don't worry, it gets more confusing later, with the U & V-class and the W & Z-class) have the same as the Thornycroft Mod, but with quad tubes rather than triples, the C & D-class swaps the pom-poms for a single 76 mm and two quad 12.7 mm machine guns, the E & F trade the C & D's 76 for five single 7.7 mm machine guns.
Aynho, the A-class and B-class (which are later than the V & W-class. the V-class leader has four single 102 mm guns, two twin 533 mm torps and two pom-poms, the V and W subclasses were the same, but some swapped the pom-poms for a single 76 mm AA gun, then there's the Thornycroft V subclass, which is to all intents and purposes a V class with the 76 and 1 knot faster, the Thornycroft W subclass has a third twin 533 mm torp launcher, the Thornycroft Modified W-class (I said it was complicated!) goes back to two pom-poms, and changes to two triple 533 mm torps, and upguns from 102 mm guns, to 120 mm guns, and finally the Admiralty Modified W-class is the same as the Thornycroft Mod but two knots slower. The actual armaments are, uh, interesting the L, M, R, and S-classes have three single 102mm guns as the main batteries, two twin 533 mm torps, and a single 40 mm pom-pom AA gun. the overwhelming majority of RN DDs sit between 34 and 36 knots, which is perfectly respectable (outliers being the L-class, at 29, the Admiralty Modified W-class at 32 knots, the O & P-class, S & T-class, and U & V-class, at 36.75 knots, the Weapon-class at 31 knots, and the Daring-class at 30 knots). So, I know this is looking a long old way into the future, but what do we make of British DDs? I'm sat here, looking at a spreadsheet I've thrown together to see what we could have, and I'm wondering what WG can, well, salvage.Ĭaution, there will be something of a wall of text inbound.īritish torps are, in terms of range and speed, not what you could call great (see spoiler below).
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