Most effective anti aircraft ship in WWII era ships

[Haguro]

If we eliminate capital ships from topic which ship would you most want to protect your aircraft carrier from enemy aircraft.

My potential choices:

Atlanta/Oakland class light cruiser

Armed with up to 16 x 5 inch dual purpose guns

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Worcester Class Light Cruiser

Armed with 12 x 6" DP guns

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Dido Class Light Cruiser

Armed with up to 10 x 5.25 inch DP guns

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Are there other ships (cruisers or destroyers) that should be considered as anti aircraft protection for your valuable aircraft carrier?

[Jager_Panther1]

i was going to say almost the same thing, light cruisers with a huge amount of DP guns.

[Ariecho]

I think that you summarized it well, if you limit the search to WW2.

[Eyeless_Camper]

Put to sea in ww2 or in service?  :Smile_smile:

[Skygunner]

Japan had the Akizuki Class destroyers, Isuzu,  and a unbuilt class of dedicated AA cruiser.

 

 

The Akizukis were fine ships, though when compared to the Atlanta Class, they seem weak.    Fast, well armed, and equipped with long lances,

 

Isuzu was an old converted Nagara class.  It is ok.   Its firepower against surface targets was greatly diminished, however it retained its torpedos.

 

The AA cruiser carried 12 - dual barreled 3.9in (same gun on the Akizuki) which is arguably one of the better IJN AA guns. 3 turrets forward,  3 aft, and 3 on each side amidships for a total of 18 barrel broadside.

 

 

 

We may see the AA cruiser....maybe.  In which case it'd be more than a match for Atlanta, overtaking it in sheer volume of AA.  The Akizukis are curious because of how matchmaking works.  But I think it will come down to the individual as to weather they prefer cruisers or destroyers.    Isuzu isn't awful,  but would almost positivly be a lower tier than Atlanta.  Given a driver who's good with torps and the ship will probably do just fine.

[Senkan]

Should have put those 100 mm AA turrets on Yamato.  :(

[Ariecho]

Skygunner, on 09 November 2012 - 05:02 PM, said:

The Akizukis were fine ships, though when compared to the Atlanta Class, they seem weak.    

Same reason why I didn't offer the Montcalm.

[Windhover118]

What about the Cleveland Class?

 

 

In additions to her 12 6 in guns she also had 12 5 in dual purpouse guns along with 28 40mm bofors and 10 20mm Oerlikon cannons.

[mrlazorz]

The Altlanta class is in NavyFIELD.

 

It's an interesting CL, but people seem to prefer putting 6"s on it

[DementedMind]

I have to wonder, will non-allied nations able to compete with their AA dedicated ships?  Allied nations seem to do very well in that area?

[_Jeremiah_Gottwald]

The Atlanta is a good ship. In NF I only had the 5' on because I didn't like the 6'. I could never do AA fire properly in the game though so I let the MG's on the ship handle it.

[TenaciousTanaka]

For my tastes really anything that had 5/38's  AS LONG AS THEY WERE LOADED  WITH "VT" FUSED AMMO!    Ever since the Helena in   43  smoked the first US Navy kill using VT shells, the  bar  was set  pretty high.  Atlantas,   Clevelands, DDs... Fast BBs.. if they all feed on a steady diet of this ammo, there  ain't much that is going to get through that giant wall of F*** YOU!