Talk:Recent Updates/@comment-24782822-20140415111726/@comment-5046483-20140415175006

@ Elic, the Kongou class fast battleships were originally classified as a BC but were modernised to be up-gunned and had their armour belts thickened enough to be reclassified as a full battleship.

With dreadnought and super dreadnought basically dreadnought was a class from WWI. As has previously been mentioned, EVERYONE copied the idea i.e Nagato class, Fusou class. By the time WWII rolled around pretty much everything that was classified as a 'modern' BB would have been a DN by WWI standards. Yamato, Musashi and their sisters who were never laid down were so big and so heavily armed and armoured that they couldn't really be called BB anymore so the Japanese slapped the Super-Dreadnought sticker on them.