Super Hipper-Class
Ultimate German Heavy Cruiser Design (Paper Ship) - Never Built - Theoretical ultimate heavy cruiser design, never progressed beyond planning. 23,600 tons, 9× 20.3cm guns (3× triple turrets), 33 knots. Largest German cruiser design (+68% vs. Admiral Hipper), heaviest armor (120-150mm belt), maximum range (9,000 nm). First German cruiser with triple 20.3cm turrets. Approached battlecruiser size and capability. Design study only, never formally proposed. Would have rivaled foreign heavy cruisers (USS Des Moines, Stalingrad-class). Reliability penalty (-15%) due to extreme complexity and theoretical nature.
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 23600 t
- Displacement (full)
- 30000 t
- Length
- 787.4 ft
- Beam
- 82.0 ft
- Crew
- 2000 (estimated)
- Ships built
- 0 (design study only)
- Commissioned
- Never built
- Decommissioned
- Never built
Performance
- Top speed
- 33 kn
- Range
- 9000 nm at 20 knots (planned)
Armament
- Main guns
- 9× 20.3cm (8-inch) SK C/34 (3× triple turrets)
- Secondary guns
- 16× 10.5cm SK C/33 AA
- Torpedoes
- 12× 53.3cm (4× triple mounts)
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- 120-150mm waterline belt
- Deck
- 80-100mm
- Fire control
- Advanced fire control radar + automated systems (planned)
In-Game
- Tier
- T6
- Game power
- 205.25
- Research cost
- 162,558
- Credit cost
- 143,675
Notable
- Ultimate German heavy cruiser design (9× 20.3cm guns)
- First German cruiser with triple 20.3cm turrets (planned)
- Largest German cruiser design (23,600 tons standard)
- Heaviest armor of any German cruiser (120-150mm belt)
- Maximum range (9,000 nm at 20 knots)
- Would have rivaled battlecruisers in size
- Design study only (never progressed beyond theoretical)
- Reliability penalty (-15% due to extreme complexity)