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I've already explained why. WW2 technology was not yet able to overcome the inherent lags in servos, computers and other control mechanisms. If you have a system where the DCT layer/trainer merely have to keep their sights on the target, then the RPC mechanisms/computers/stable elements should prod...

Can you give me a link to the South Dakota AAR which said the 5" guns couldn't track accurately while she maneuvered? I know I've seen several accounts which said the main battery could, so that seems somewhat surprising to me. (...) According to your logic it was impossible to shoot down airc...

Manoeuvring was the rule while the bombs were falling, but not while the aircraft were approaching. Is that just your opinion? If South Dakota wasn't maneuvering until bombs were dropped, it seems to me that wouldn't be a huge problem for her AA. The fact that South Dakota had problems getting thei...

No WW2 warship that was manoeuvring radically (including battleships) could maintain an AA FC solution. Why do you think that? Why do you think the trend in medium DP guns was to increase the rate of elevation and traverse? I've read enough USN battleship, cruiser and destroyer action reports to kn...

dunmunro wrote: No WW2 warship that was manoeuvring radically (including battleships) could maintain an AA FC solution.

Why do you think that?

Why do you think the trend in medium DP guns was to increase the rate of elevation and traverse?

We are talking about two different classes of the destroyer, the Tribal class and the L class. The Abdiel class were fast minelayers with very little need for a dual purpose gun. You cannot trust anything Navweaps has to say about RN weapons. The Abdiel Class never carried 4.7in twin mounts and the...

I thought the 4" weapons were there because they were better AA weapons. I take it they weren't, and the only reason they were installed was because the RN screwed up their order for 4.7" guns and built more destroyers than gun mounts? I doubt they were better AA weapons than the 4.7in/50...

Unless it's vs. low flying aircraft such as torpedo bombers......they'd be pretty hard pressed to deal with anything else without that 4-inch twin. Wonder why only 1 mount was replaced... A couple of the later ships of the class had 8x4". Of course, the 4.5" DP eventually replaced the 4.7...

Unless it's vs. low flying aircraft such as torpedo bombers......they'd be pretty hard pressed to deal with anything else without that 4-inch twin. Wonder why only 1 mount was replaced... A couple of the later ships of the class had 8x4". Of course, the 4.5" DP eventually replaced the 4.7...

I presume you mean AA escorts. Of course they could, but their 4.7" guns were not the best for that purpose and they didn't have a lot of effective smaller AA weapons. As the war progressed some of the 4.7" guns were replaced by weapons more appropriate for AA defense. It depends on what p...

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Because of the Versaille treaty, Washington naval treaty and the anglo german naval treaty at 1935. The germans weren't allowed to the Washington naval treaty but were allowed to replace their old pre dreadnoughts, to the rules of the Versaille Treaty, which means 10000ts and no caliber rule. So wi...

I find myself wondering (not for the first time) why if this ship was so superior to a CA all of the other nations didn't emulate her, and why the German CAs were built, since they were obviously inferior.

It really doesn't matter whether the "Climate Change agenda" is real or not. The amount of the real wealth in the world is increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a smaller and smaller percentage of the population. Discussions like this are irrelevant, because those people are lar...

It really doesn't matter whether the "Climate Change agenda" is real or not. The amount of the real wealth in the world is increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a smaller and smaller percentage of the population. Discussions like this are irrelevant, because those people are larg...