With cruisers, I would say that you can forget about scoring a citadel on this ship. It is a way better protection than the Alaska with her 229 mm main belt and 26 mm citadel side armor. When it comes to the citadel protection, the sides are 57 mm thick. The Main belt is 254 mm thick for the biggest part but there is also a small 216 mm section. The sides are, sadly, “only” 30 mm thick so still vulnerable to overmatch from 431 mm shells and above. The deck of the Puerto Rico is 38 mm thick giving her protection to the more and more frequent capacity to overmatch 30 mm platings that battleships have in high tier. There are also 2 229 mm thick casemates on the sides to protect the internal citadel from shells that would slip between the main belt and the athwartship. warships with the lower parts of the athwartship being 254 mm thick and then 76 mm thick. There is, then, the classic armor tapering of U.S. Just under it, there is a nice 305 mm thick bulkhead as well as the citadel’s athwartship (surrounded in black). ![]() Inside the bow, there is a first casemate with 38 mm of armor.
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