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The hood had some redesigns because of Jutland, but only so much could be done so late in the process. She still represented largely pre-jutland thinking.

>Steel

I mention steel somewhat metaphorically. An enormous amount of time, money, material, and labor when into the Bismark and Tirpitz, and those resources could almost certainly have been put to better use. Maybe not tanks, perhaps, but definitely something.

>Strangely I've never really looked at American designs since i tend to focus on everyone else.

Norman Friedman has an excellent series covering the history of US warship design with a volume for every class of ship, with much reference to foreign designs as well. It's expensive, but utterly fantastic. Those books are what got me interested in ship design. He also has a pair of shorter, more introductory book cataloging the history of battleship design, looking at what every country did, and a second one for aircraft carriers. It is quite detailed, but makes a point of explaining esoteric concepts like metacentric height. I read the more detailed history first, but would suggest doing the opposite.

Shameless plug: my mother had told me his book was on Amazon but I honestly did not know if I could even find it and share it. Here is the link for anyone interested. They wrote it before social media was really a thing, amazon says copyright in 2013 but it was actually completed and first copyrighted in 1999.

DADDY, WHAT DID YOU DO DURING THE WAR? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EB3FBBA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_UEGWzbEG3W2FT