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The other position of this report was the contention that the AAA was not able to handle the slow speed of the swordfish ? As all targeting was visual I do not see the contection that it was unable to react "slow enough" to the aircraft? . There's an answer to that but I'm not willing to discuss it...

Dave, could you name the primary sources for the Seetakt values, they are met with great scepticism elsewhere (which is no surprise), or are you wating till your work is published?

With all the key problems solved on R and a later Mk 8 it should be a toss up. The decks are immune on both sides and you have easily destroyed turrets against weaker side armour.

It is beyond me how much time people like Vic Dale waste to write such excessive amounts of bullshit in forums. Now we're at a point where even native speakers are getting lectured about their own language...

Kickban please.

Where is this 227kg bomb hit on Musashi described?

I wonder if Nathan Okun is aware how his badly behaviour (not responding to primary source data nor naming his sources, along the tone of some of his quotes) reflect on him and his work. To be honest, a few years ago, I was very sceptical about the findings of Thorsten, Dave and Delcyros, but this h...

Its imprressive, how the Seetakt from 1936 compares to the Type 274 from 1944 (94m/0,05°) accuracy. Thanks Dave, so much for superior allied RFC...

Karl will be delighted.

Dave, was the Radar usable for gunnery on GS? I know it could be used for gunnery and even for blind fire later on, but IIRC from the AVKS 700 the AVKS modified BS' FC sytem to integrate the Seetakt for gunnery purpose. Was this done for GS as well?

I guess it was a combination of skill and luck, Hartmann e. g. would have been dead if those P-51 pilots decided to kill him after he had to bail out from fuel shortage on one occasion.

What other explanation is there? Racial superiority?

I don't know what all those kill statistics are supposed to prove. Of course Hartmann had far more kills than any non German ace and he certainly had far more combat experience than any non German ace as had all those over 100 German aces who shot down more than 100 aircraft but if you put them on t...

Bismarck's poor AA performance was due to a very low number of light AA guns (like all ships in 1941), a hand loaded single shot(!) 3,7cm AA gun, two types off mountings for the 10,5cm guns, which caused half of them to miss due to faulty synchronisation with the AA directors and most improtantly la...

For the turrets of US ships look here: viewtopic.php?t=4170&p=47923

I also had the impression that they had very good protected turrets, but that was not the case.

Calm down a bit, Karl, even if someone like Dave, Thorsten or Marc posts something one should not shut up, but definitely one should listen. ;) Besides, I am no expert at all. Just be happy, that people have started, thanks to the contributers mentioned above, to reevaluate BS from mediocre to a ver...

regards ede PS It might be strange for Americans, but more and bigger is not always better :-) Well, regarding battleships, bigger generally is better; Bismarck & Tirpitz are an exception to that generality... Remember thath KGV and SoDak are nowhere near 35k standard displacement (only through let...

Would you trade your cheap cars and gas for our Autobahn with no speed limit (or at least 120 km/h, meaning every German drives around 140)? :D Driving 200 km/h can be quite funny at times but if you pay 1,50€ a litre it hurts as fast as you drive. ;) Since Germany is afaik the only country left wit...