Talk:Neue Belkatsche Reichsmarine/@comment-32153758-20130715021809/@comment-1715389-20130716000517

It had Mark 45s as well, but it was designed primarily to counter aircraft. The Mark 45 is useful against fighters and torpedo bombers, but what did it in were dive bombers, which it was especially vulnerable to due to its immobility. The only effective counters to dive bombers are AA guns (which require a lot of luck for them to take out all of the bombers in time) and fighters (adding runways means less guns however).