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(Vanilla) USS Louisiana BB-71 [Preset]

This ship has become a preset ship in the 1.0 Beta version.



Introduction

The battleship USS Louisiana is the fifth Montana class battleship designed by the US Navy during WWII. The building of battleship Louisiana was authorized on 19 July 1940, and assigned to the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va. but, before her keel was laid, together with her four sisters, the construction was canceled on 21 July 1943.
However, we're bringing this giant of steel back into life in Naval Art now. We created this Montana class battleship accurately based on her blueprints, and we modernized it imagining how she would looks like if her construction was completed in mid 1945.

General characteristics

Displacement:
Standard: 60,500 t
Full load: 72,104 t
Length:921 ft 3 in (280.8 m) loa
Beam:121 ft 2 in (36.9 m)
Draft:36 ft (11 m)
Installed power:8 × Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers, 172,000 hp (128 MW)
Propulsion: 4× geared steam turbines, 4 × screw propellers
Speed:28 knots (32 mph; 52 km/h) maximum
Range:15,000 nmi (17,300 mi; 27,800 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement:Standard: 2,355;Flagship: 2,789
Armament:
12 × 16 in (406 mm)/50 cal Mk 7 guns
20 × 5 in (127 mm)/54 cal Mark 16 guns
92 × Bofors 40 mm (1.6 in) anti-aircraft guns
104 × Oerlikon 20 mm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft cannon
Armor:
Main belt: 409 mm
Bulkheads: 457 mm forward,387 mm aft
Barbettes: 541 mm, 457 mm aft
Turret face: 572 mm
Main deck: 179–187 mm)
Aircraft carried:3 × SC-1 Seahawk
Aviation facilities:2 × Type P Mark 6 catapults for launch of seaplanes

In fact, we are working on a super detailed USS Louisiana that is expected to have over 50k parts by the time it is completed, but obviously such a ship exceeds the capacity of most computers and it is almost impossible to play in battles. Therefore, we created this simplified version dedicated to play in battles using only 2450 vanilla parts with physics optimized.

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