The H-45 Battleship Concept

Another behemoth designed by Hitler

Pixel art of the H-45 Battleship concept

After the loss of the Bismarck German battleship which was the pride o the German army, Hitler became very furious and wanted to start the design of Fuhrer class battleships that would make the Yamato Japanese battleship a joke. Sadly the picture you see above is the only thing I could find to show what the H-45 could have looked like (sorry for the small resolution).

An interpretation of the H-45 Concept

Hitler was in love with huge weapons that are just ridiculous and ineffective because of the number of resources it takes to actually use them. A good example would be the Maus tank which had the thickest armor at the time, however, because it was so big and heavy the engine would use as much fuel as 10 king tigers to actually move 1km in distance.

Not only that but because of the heavyweight, it could only do a top speed of 15kmh so it would be better off as a turret in battle. The tank was built but never used because even the Germans realized (after production) it’s ineffectiveness in combat.

Copy of the original blueprints of the H-45 Battleship

The blueprint that you have above is to show the comparison of what is considered a large battleship (the Bismarck) versus the H-45 or Fuhrer class battleship. We are talking about a battleship that is 3 times larger by far and just gunned to the teeth.

The armament that was presented to be on the H-45 is just scary for someone that does understand the power of naval armament. The main guns of the battleships are 8 x 800mm Gustav siege guns! The largest that has ever been implemented on a battleship in the second world war was of 460mm on the Yamato and that was a devastating ship that has survived a fight against 5 destroyers at the same time.

The secondary armament of the H-45 would have been as follows:

• 12 x 9.45/73 (240mm) long-range anti-aircraft guns
• 24 x 5.04/60 (128mm) anti-aircraft guns
• light armament 55mm Gerat 58 and…