Talk:15.5cm Triple Gun Mount Kai/@comment-27069434-20171025202232/@comment-68.146.133.92-20171209031347

From Navweaps, the 15.5cm/triple mount masses about 180 tonnes, while the 14cm/twin mount masses about 50 tonnes and the 14cm/single runs about 21 tonnes. Yuubari started life with two twins and two singles, so she has less combined tonnage in her 14cms as even one 15.5cm/triple would require.

Tenryuu is even worse.

While it's not impossible that you could fit a 15.5cm/triple on the two of them (both run about 4000 tonnes displacement), it'd take a major redesign of their structure, probably removing all their existing weaponry and adding bulges, and you'd end up with something like HMS Marshal Ney - minimal superstructure but for one (maybe two) outsized turret.