Talk:Saratoga/@comment-68.191.49.101-20161119161111/@comment-30469350-20161119172336

Before her refit in 1942-43, Saratoga changed her 8-inch guns (4x2) for 5-inch  (4x2 too)  (the same as Iowa's secondaries).

Truth be told, Akagi and Kaga should have had medium range too; as they had 8-inch guns (Akagi 6x1, Kaga 10x1 both low in the water).

The curious thing is that those were the only reason why Graf got her 8x2 6-inch guns (the germans using blueprints of Akagi), and that the only ship that survived long enough to see that refit was Saratoga, as Lexington, Akagi and Kaga got sunk in mid-1942