![]() ![]() Keep in mind that "expected battle ranges" as designed were in excess of 9 km, but captains of USS Arizona can expect much shorter range engagements on the seas of War Thunder regularly. The only ship with a thicker main belt currently is SMS Bayern with a thickness of 13.77 inches. ![]() This gives her a main armour belt of 13.5 inches, one of the thickest in-game. Like other American battleships, she was designed to be able to resist her own 14-inch guns at expected battle ranges. ![]() The USS Arizona, like other American Standard-type battleships, is a very well-armoured battleship. That firepower comes with an extremely long reload of 40 seconds splitting the battery is a necessity when engaging multiple enemies. In exchange, as she is in her 1938 refit, she has less secondary and anti-aircraft capability in comparison to the 1944 refit of Nevada. She was introduced in Update "Wind of Change", and gains an extra two guns to her main battery compared to the preceding USS Nevada, this places her as the battleship with the greatest broadside in the American Bluewater fleet currently. She then mostly served in a training capacity until the beginning of the American involvement in WW2, where she was tragically sunk in a massive explosion, and still lies in Pearl Harbor today. She saw only stateside service during hostilities in the First World War, but notably escorted President Woodrow Wilson on his way to the Paris Peace Conference at the end of the war. ![]() The Pennsylvania-class, USS Arizona (BB-39), 1938 is one of two Pennsylvania-class battleships built for the US Navy, laid down in 1914 and commissioned in late 1916. ![]()
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