Feuerreiter-class Battlecruiser

### Armament

4x2 Modell 22 Fd. 22 Guns (40 cm guns), 10x1 Modell 25 Fd. 8.25 Gun (15 cm guns), 16x1 Modell 26 Fd. 5.5 Guns (10 cm, dual purpose guns), 18x2 Modell 20 Fd. 1.4 Guns (2.55 cm AA-guns), 4x3 Fd. 33.5 Torpedoes

## Notes

### Notes

Condition 1930

The **Feuerreiter-class Battlecruiser** is a class of eight battlecruisers for the Imperial Navy, intended to replace the ageing Furtenland-class Battlecruisers in service as frontline vessels. They are a follow-up on the earlier Tauläufer-class Battlecruisers from the 20s. They are lighter armoured and incorporate a number of newer technologies, including turbo-electric drive after the successes of the Einheitszerstörer. Like their predecessors, they are named after are named after important characters of Auwaltian Myths.

The hull served as the basis for the two Waldschatten-class Aircraft Carriers under construction for the Imperial Navy.

## Design

* oil-fired boilers, turbine-generators, provide power to electric motors driving the shafts and all systems aboard - turbines can run at optimal speed, without regarding propeller speed -> better fuel economy, but bulkier (no gearboxes or steam pipes)
* 8.5 m freeboard
* bulbous bow

### Armament

* 4x2 Modell 22 Fd. 22 Guns (40 cm guns, 2 fore, 2 aft, superfiring), 10x1 Modell 25 Fd. 8.25 Gun (15 cm guns), 16x1 Modell 26 Fd. 5.5 Guns (10 cm, dual purpose guns), 18x2 Modell 20 Fd. 1.4 Guns (2.55 cm AA-guns, slated to be replaced as soon as possible, 9 batteries of 2, four port, four starboard, one aft), 4x3 Fd. 33.5 Torpedoes
* Fire control: See Tauläufer-class Battlecruiser

### Armour

The belt-armor of the Feuerreiter-class Battlecruisers is 180 mm thick, horizontal and spans from the forward bulkhead in front of the Alia-turret to the aft bulkhead behind the Dorit-turret. It goes for the full 165 meters of that space, three meters in height. Both bulkheads are 150 mm in thickness.

The Armored Deck was 50 mm thick, with additional 50 mm added over magazines and machinery spaces, sloping down to unite with the belt armor. The turrets are armored with 250 mm on their faces, the sides being 150 mm thick, the roof 100 mm. Their barbettes have a thickness of 250 mm at maximum, but with each deck, that thickness reduces to 100 mm.

The conning tower is armored with 300 mm thick armor. To protect against torpedoes, the Feuerreiter-class Battlecruiser has four 25 mm thick torpedo bulkheads with space between them (usually used as fuel storage). The space this creates is designed to absorb the explosion of a detonation.

## Service History

### Ships in class

8

**Ships**

Battleships: Kayfer-class Fast Battleship, Eyckenbaum-class Battleship, Imperatrix Gundel class Battleship, Bucks-class Fast Battleship
Battlecruisers/"The heavy cavalry of the Fleet": **Feuerreiter-class Battlecruiser**, Tauläufer-class Battlecruiser, Furtenland-class Battlecruiser (decommissioned)
Aircraft Carriers: Feuerbergadler-class Aircraft Carrier (to be commissioned 1941-1944), Tiefbucht-class Light Aircraft Carrier (to be commissioned 1942-1945), Waldschatten-class Aircraft Carrier, Early Aircraft Carriers of the Imperial Navy

**Boats**

Cruisers/"The light cavalry of the Fleet": Prinz-class Cruiser, Prinzessin-class Cruiser, Stadt-class Scout Cruiser
Destroyers: Zerstörer 1935 (Z-211 to Z-240, 30 units), Zerstörer 1925 (Z-151 to Z-210, 60 units), Einheitszerstörer a.k.a. Zerstörer 1918 (Z-121 to Z-150, 30 units) and Zerstörer 1915 (Z-113 to Z-130, 18 units), Zerstörer 1910 (42 units, decommissioned, awaiting scrapping)
Frigates/Flottenbegleiter: Flottenbegleiter 1928
Torpedo Boats: Torpedoboot 1922
**Supply and Support Vessels**

Other: SIM Kloster Garremach (training ship), Unterstützungsboot 1917 (support boat)

**Other Equipment**

**Battleship Artillery:** Modell 24 Fd. 25 Gun (45.5 cm gun), Modell 22 Fd. 22 Gun (40 cm gun)
Fd. 19.5 Guns (35.5 cm guns): Modell 18 Fd. 19.5 Gun, Modell 28 Fd. 19.5 Gun
**Cruiser Artillery:** Modell 25 Fd. 8.25 Gun (15 cm gun)
Fd. 11 Guns (20 cm guns): Modell 10 Fd. 11 Gun, Modell 15 Fd. 11 Gun, Modell 21 Fd. 11 Gun, Modell 28 Fd. 11 Gun
**Destroyer Artillery:**
Fd. 5.5 Guns (10 cm guns): Modell 11 Fd. 5.5 Gun, Modell 18 Fd. 5.5 Gun, Modell 26 Fd. 5.5 Gun (dual purpose mount)
For destroyers with delusions of grandeur: Modell 25 Fd. 8.25 Gun
Anti-Aircraft Artillery: Modell 31 Fd. 2 Gun (36 mm AA-gun), Modell 20 Fd. 1.4 Gun (2.55 cm AA-gun), Modell 26 Fd. 5.5 Gun (10 cm gun, dual purpose mount)
Torpedoes: Fd. 24.7 Aerial Torpedo (450 mm torpedo), Fd. 33.5 Torpedo (610 mm torpedo)
Rockets: Rockets of the Imperial Navy
Mines: Naval mines of the Imperial Navy
Aircraft: List of Aircraft in service with the Imperial Armed Forces
Radar: *Present and accounted for*
Sonar: *Present and accounted for*

Also see: Women in the Imperial Armed Forces, Doctrine of the Imperial Navy, Structure of the Imperial Navy in 1930, Structure of the Imperial Navy in 1940, Marine-Schützen-Korps, Imperatorwerften Wahlerhaven.
Competitors: Shipclasses and equipment of the Sultan's Navy, Structure of the SDF-Navy in 1942, Structure of the Lutetiian Navy in 1942
Project 1940: Structure of the SDF-Navy in 1942, Structure of the Sultan's Navy in 1940, Structure of the Armed Forces of the Principality in 1940, Structure of the Lutetiian Navy in 1942, Structure of the Armed Forces of the Empire of Kupandukira in 1940