A 46 cm shell (Yamato)
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A 46 cm shell (Yamato)
http://album.nikon-image.com/nk/NImageA ... 0&pos0=157 Click to enlarge.....
This is from the Yamato 1:10 model page........... http://album.nikon-image.com/nk/NAlbumT ... =0&cnt=322
This is from the Yamato 1:10 model page........... http://album.nikon-image.com/nk/NAlbumT ... =0&cnt=322
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True, the shell on the left is an APCBC type 91shell, or casting thereof, the one in the middle seems to be the special san-shiki AA incendiary common, and the one on the right looks to be a type 91 with the windscreen and part of the cap cut away to show the shell nose. Very interesting display and a marvelous site overall.
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And saved the sum of things for pay.
46cm shell
The museum at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard has a real one, along with a piece of face plate armor that was pierced on a test shoot with a 406mm. The plate is a spectacular, but meaningless display when you consider that the shot had to be point blank.
Both shell and armor plate are displayed outside, near a fourteen inch railway gun and have been there many years.
Both shell and armor plate are displayed outside, near a fourteen inch railway gun and have been there many years.
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Information about this test is here (by Nathan Okun) http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-040.htm
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"Therefore, these plates are the only warship armor plates that could not be completely penetrated by ANY gun ever put on a warship when installed leaning back at 45°, as they were in the actual turrets!!! Even to completely hole the plate all the way through at that inclination requires a brand new 16"/50 Mark 7 or German 38cm SK C/34 gun at point-blank range firing the latest versions of their respective AP projectiles; it might be cracked at a lower striking velocity, but no hole put entirely through it! AND THEY SAID GUNS HAD COMPLETELY OVERMATCHED ALL ARMOR--*NOT SO*!!! "
Very important info from this article
"Therefore, these plates are the only warship armor plates that could not be completely penetrated by ANY gun ever put on a warship when installed leaning back at 45°, as they were in the actual turrets!!! Even to completely hole the plate all the way through at that inclination requires a brand new 16"/50 Mark 7 or German 38cm SK C/34 gun at point-blank range firing the latest versions of their respective AP projectiles; it might be cracked at a lower striking velocity, but no hole put entirely through it! AND THEY SAID GUNS HAD COMPLETELY OVERMATCHED ALL ARMOR--*NOT SO*!!! "
46cm shell
I didn't remember the sixteen on wheels. I thought it was in cradles. The railway gun, not pictured, is however a fourteen. Back in the '70's there evidently was a ww2 configured destroyer at the Washington Navy Yard also, but it's gone now.