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Radetzky Class Preliminary Project III

As I've mentioned in the previous project:
https://www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/Radetzky-Class-Preliminary-Project-II-839328845
In order to maintain the tonnage limit the designers had to sacrafice the armament to increse other aspects of the ship. This time by reducing the number of 30,5cm Cannons from 4 to 3 allowed the increase of the secondary 19cm Gun number from 8 Guns to 12 and a broadside of 4 to 6. This is logical, if you set the a displacement limit and speed to achieve while armour must remain the same, the only thing you can "play" with is the armament, either it's calibre and/or it's number. While this philosophy is evident in every Major Power's navy it is most significant in the the case of the KUK Kriegsmarine which not only have very limited number of shipyards, (2 at the time, both at STT - Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino) and floating docks (none at the time) for construction and service / fitting out but the economical background as well (material and monetary).

The design had the following characteristics:
Dimensions: Unknown except the width so I've used the data of the Radetzkys: 137,5m (wl) 138,8m (oa) x 24,0m x 8,1m
Displacement: 12.650tons (standard)
Armour: 40mm Deck, 230mm Belt
Engines: 18.000shp Yarrow Vertical Triple Expansion Engines, 2 Shafts
Speed: 37km/h (20knots)
Range: 7.400km at 18,5km/h (4.000nm at 10knots)
Armaments:
1x2,1x1 30,5cm/40 Skoda K05 Cannons
4x2,4x1 19cm/42 Skoda K03 Guns
10x1 7cm/50 Skoda K10 Guns
3x1 45cm Underwater Torpedo tubes

The only known data table about the 1904 projects:
https://i.imgur.com/sHhBwgy.jpg