Heavy cruisers of Germany

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Another class of German warships is complete, at least as far as a GT is concerned. This one has legs for an eventual upgrade to FT, but the articles are pretty far down on the FAC queue (I'm only halfway to finishing the original project, and I don't exactly have the free time to run FACs every month). In any case, this topic includes the Deutschland class ships, which were originally classified as panzerschiffe (armored ships) and commonly called "pocket battleships", but were actually just over-armed heavy cruisers, something the Germans themselves realized in 1940, when they reclassified the remaining two ships as heavy cruisers. There were two designs for follow-on panzerschiffe, neither of which were completed, and the five Admiral Hippers, two of which were originally ordered as light cruisers. Those two ships were reordered as heavy cruisers, but were never completed. The last ship, Lützow was sold to the USSR and actually fired on advancing German troops during Barbarossa. Parsecboy (talk) 11:13, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support - However, perhaps the current Admiral Hipper topic could just be included as a subtopic (as seen here) rather than being merged in and dropped. I'd support either way as it still represents the same scope. GRAPPLE X 18:39, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
My bad then, must have been some other topic I was thinking of. I just might do a general search for articles citing that book and post the result at WP:SHIP.Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:05, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge of the other topic is done, will promote in the next day or two. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 05:05, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]