She mounts in four triple turrets twelve (16") 406mm/45 Mark 7 rifles with a 40 second (!) base reload time. Kansas inherits her (slow) speed and good citadel protection from her Standard predecessors while adding major improvements in firepower and torpedo protection. (These designs were made possible by improved propulsion system efficiency and by de-prioritizing armor protection.) The slow battleship branch models how USN battleship designs might have progressed without the requirement to operate in fleet with carriers. The fast battleship branch - North Carolina, South Dakota, Iowa, and Montana-classes - models the change in these requirements so that battleships could operate in fleet with speedy carriers. These were the USN "Standards", represented in-game up through Colorado. Prior to the rise of aircraft carriers in the mid-1930's, the US Navy accepted the trade-off of speed for cruising range, inter-operability, firepower, and, to a lesser extent, protection in a common set of requirements for battleship design. Kansas is the Tier VIII ship in the slow branch. After Tier VII Colorado, the USN battleship tree splits into a "fast" branch and a "slow" branch.
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