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[-] schmidtster@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Is the class of ship based off of displacement instead of use/design? That seems like a strange system,

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 28 points 11 months ago

While there were classes that were.relatively clear-cut, most shop classifications are a clusterfuck. Frigates and destroyers are basically the same, unless they aren't. Same goes for Battlecruiser and Battleship or light cruiser and destroyer and so on.

There is no definition really. Everybody names their ships whatever the fuck they want.

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

In the beginning of the 20th century and between the two world wars, during the era of the dreadnoughts and battleships, there was an arm race. So the various powers agreed on a number of battleships to limit the arm race. The definition was made with displacement, because at the time battleships were meant to carry the biggest possible guns, so displacement was kind of proportional. To get around this, they designed battlecruisers. Basically a battleship but with a displacement low enough that it was not limited by treaties.

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