Talk:Saratoga/Gallery/@comment-26293410-20161119163226/@comment-27786739-20161121174526

At the time of her construction, carrier empluyment doctrine was very much up in the air, and it was thought that it would still be nessecary to have a self-defense capability against surface attack. Later events would dictate AA being much more important, thus they were replaced. Plus, they couldn't be fired across the flight deck to the port side, as it would damage said flight deck, giving them fairly terrible arcs of fire.