Probably because that AA structure was an afterthought and for the most part navigation would have been done from the armored conning station, not the actual bridge....
We didn't design the ship man, we used the ship drawings...
-Hapa
I mean you can say that. But considering this version of Vermont was not built, I'd say that could have been a one of the reasons to have not selected this design.
Also, ships are built all the time and then equipment added. Case in point new examples LHD 1-4 were originally built without CIWS in mind the mount actually blocks the view from the bridge centerline as well. So when we used to go to Sea and Anchor we had to lay the CIWS mount back, which actually damaged the equipment over time and I wrote an instruction and report that changed the Navy's policy on these ships to literally tell the OOD to move to where THEY could see.
Also I don't claim to know how policy was on board individual warships in the 40s and 50s as there wasn't too much standardized back then Navy-wide as was done in more modern times.
At the end of the day, again, we used ships and engineer drawings to map our designs and lay outs... so again, it's not our Devs that more than likely made this decision....
-Hapa
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