Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
The concept wasn't exactly secret.
The first one to conceive of it was an Italian, the Japanese Satsuma and American South Carolina classes could be considered competitors, except that Fisher had the resources to push his vision first and fastest.
Hindsight says that if the British had developed a triple turret, they could have with a broken deck, had placed the turrets at positions A, X, Y, with nine guns, along the centre line, without really requiring superfiring.
Traveller predreadnoughts, could be armed with a mass driver or railgun spinal mount.
The first one to conceive of it was an Italian, the Japanese Satsuma and American South Carolina classes could be considered competitors, except that Fisher had the resources to push his vision first and fastest.
Hindsight says that if the British had developed a triple turret, they could have with a broken deck, had placed the turrets at positions A, X, Y, with nine guns, along the centre line, without really requiring superfiring.
Traveller predreadnoughts, could be armed with a mass driver or railgun spinal mount.
