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The Admirals other than Hood got scrapped in their slips after being cancelled in February 1919 since the RN did the numbers and found that building a new design with wartime lessons added and with a AON scheme wouldn't be that much more expensive on a per ship basis. That was why the G3s got...

Only France and Italy were allowed to build capital ships early. And they kinda had a mutual informal agreement to not build them during the 20s and early 30s. As for more Renowns and Hoods....no if the UK was going to build any new capital ships in the time period they would have been updated...

As it turns out treating your navy like crap doesn't inspire reliability

The Chileans got one of their battleships(also unlike Turkey their ships weren't seized but purchased at full value due to the very good relationship between the UK and Chile so Chile had to buy back their ship)the other was too far gone into the conversion process that would yield HMS Eagle and...

the treaty covered that as well, you'd have to do it beforehand

Here's an interesting bit of trivia the RN wanted to spend the money not spent on building 4 G3s and 4 N3s and only a pair of Nelsons instead to pay for no less than 24 of the 40 County class crusiers they wanted to lay down during the 20s. As we know they ended up with 11 for themselves and 2...

The County class cruisers were fine looking ships

By 1922 things had stabilized and the UK was left with the choice of building significant numbers of capital ships or paying down the national debt fairly rapidly. Heck even if they had gone down the paying down the national debt road they could have still built a couple capital ships and other...

As I recall the UK wasn't so much broke as wanting to spend the money on social programs and paying down the national debt as fast as possible. They could have managed to build 4 battleships a year and not broken the bank for at least a few years. Anything above that and yeah you'd be right...

Well except the US but Congress as always didn't want to spend the cash.

We see the lessons from this applied to the JFK as orginally designed which had four albeit somewhat more powerful reactors. The hull hull form did still need some optimizing for nuclear power though

The one big advantage the Enterprise had over the Nimitz class was that due to having said eight reactors it was never short on steam for its catapults. Mind you they really should have gone with four reactors like the JFK was orginally supposed to have. To be fair as the first nuclear powered...

The JFK had some structural issues that were the result from switching to conventional power plant mid construction. The. America due to being a standard Kitty Hawk didn't have these issues and should have been retired in the early 2010s but post Cold War Budget Cuts axed her SLEP and she ended...

To be fair as an Island Nation which needs to import food the needs of the navy come first

Hilariously the USN did show Congress the designs with Tillman in the room. Oh to be a fly on the wall to watch that

True but I was trying to snarky and not that serious. And of course the AK-130 pays for said capabilities by being a fair bit heavier and taking up more space.

fair enough.

the Spruance class came built with the structural reinforcements to swap out the Mark 71 in for its forward 5" gun and the second time the program got canned was in 2006 after having been restarted in 1994 as I recall this lead to the redesign of the first JFK(and why they're a building a...

Basically they decided to use the USS Hull DD-945 a member of the much smaller Forrest Sherman class rather than a Spruance and then concluded that suprise suprise it was somewhat inaccurate....on a hull half the displacement of what the gun was designed to be mounted on. And honestly budgetary...

To be fair the MK71 project got axed for primarily budgetary and not technical reasons. Heck there's a reason why the Strike cruisers were planned to have one and every Spruance class ship had their forward 5" mounting area reinforced so they could have been swapped out and the early Burke...