Richelieu was designed for 300kg, Yamato for 400kg TNT.
Richelieu's TDS should be better than KGV's with her many layers and much larger depth.
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- Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:41 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: KGV article on wikipedia
- Replies: 57
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- Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:43 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: KGV article on wikipedia
- Replies: 57
- Views: 14321
Re: KGV article on wikipedia
Afair that was the designed resistance. These figures were sometimes (much) higher than the actual ones.José M. Rico wrote:KGV. Torpedo defence: 1,000 lb!!!!!!!
What is that, some kind of joke?
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:15 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck and her contemporaries
- Replies: 1296
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Re: Bismarck and her contemporaries
No details are given how this was derived, but the angle ist shown for the upper deck not the armour deck. Another hit on one of the auxiliary 9cm guns is given at an angle of 35°. Maybe JB was listing if these angles are correct. She got some flooding after 2 bomb hits on 0718. Massachusetts hit he...
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:52 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck and her contemporaries
- Replies: 1296
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Re: Bismarck and her contemporaries
As I said, I looked the angle of fall for JB's magazine hit up. It is given at 33° as I posted earlier.
- Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:48 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck and her contemporaries
- Replies: 1296
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Re: Bismarck and her contemporaries
BS won't hit much when she fires 3 RPGPM at her loading angle of 2.5°.
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:18 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck and her contemporaries
- Replies: 1296
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Re: Bismarck and her contemporaries
What I posted is from the New Book about Richelieu by Dumas and Johnson. The 33° angle is from memory, I look it up on sunday if no one does it sooner. I think i remember it correctly, because I checked the range on navweaps for such an angle of for the Mk VI when I read this and it was something ab...
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:27 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck and her contemporaries
- Replies: 1296
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Re: Bismarck and her contemporaries
Dumas gives an angle of fall from JB's magazine hit of 33° afair (can't look it up right now), which was measured by the French after the battle.
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:07 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Ideal battleship design
- Replies: 162
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Re: Ideal battleship design
According to the expert opinion of Friedman and/or Raven & Roberts as with Garzke and Dulin and even Okun the issue is far more complicated than that. Both Treaty designs, North Carolina and South Dakota, as discussed in the thread about Bismarck and her contemporaries present a series of chara...
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:03 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Armour Penetration
- Replies: 81
- Views: 20558
Re: Armour Penetration
The French were in no situation to adress their gunnery problems. You could scratch radar, RPC, AA guns etc as well for other ships, when war improvements are prohibited, the French simply could not do it during the war. Richelieu was troubled by the low harbour depth when she received the hit. But ...
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:31 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Armour Penetration
- Replies: 81
- Views: 20558
Re: Armour Penetration
I think it's out of question that one can consider BS' TDS better than Richelieu's. R's ich much deeper, has more layers, ebonite mousse (could be a mixed blessing), and was not single layer in some parts as the one of BS. The French Ships are usually attributed, and imo rightly so, as having the be...
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:54 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck and her contemporaries
- Replies: 1296
- Views: 221739
Re: Bismarck and her contemporaries
You must really be bored...
Well done, I can only agree.
Well done, I can only agree.
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:51 am
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Armour Penetration
- Replies: 81
- Views: 20558
Re: Armour Penetration
@alecsandros Why is BS a better design than Richelieu?
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:40 am
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Optical Rangefinders
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8730
Re: Optical Rangefinders
I wonder on what the often mentioned superiority of German and Japanese rangefinders is based on. Having read the navtec report on the Japanese ones some time ago, I did not find such assumption. I know it`s reported very often, but why? I don`t dispute it but I always read it as a fact without any ...
- Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:36 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck's Class status quo in the BB realm
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6041
Re: Tirpitz and Vittorio Veneto
Okun has assisted G&D in evaluating German gunnery and the armour systems. Page X in the preface " Mr. Nathan Okun contributed information on German gunnery and armor and was helpful putting together technical information regarding the protection schemes of the Bismarck and Scharnhorst clas...
- Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:32 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck and her contemporaries
- Replies: 1296
- Views: 221739
Re: Bismarck and her contemporaries
Karl, I just pointed out that the article has many errors concerning even basic data like armour thicknesses. You don't need to cross check, NC did not have a 406mm belt or 254mm combined deck armour. These errors are the same as in his old book. That's why I think it is outdated. The firing trials ...