Dreadnaught (Texas) vs. Most Modern (Iowa) Battleships

Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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Jeff Head said:
Here ya go:
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thank you, for now:
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and this forenoon, if Internet connection works in the train (taking me to the Christmas lunch LOL), I'll have several hours to look at you files Jeff! :)
 
Air Force Brat

Air Force Brat

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Jeff Head said:
There's a 1/350 scale Viribus Unitis I have seen available on the market. I have been thinking of one day buying it and building it in your honor my friend.

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It's a little spendy (expensive), but I have been thinking about it if I can save the money. The Sino Defense Brotherhood blood brother bond, beautiful! Merry Christmas Gentlemen, so proud to call you each on my friend!



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Wow! very kool, and I love the hull design! particularly the bow!
 
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Lezt

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Jura,

I read somewhere I do not recall that, the German navy inspected the Viribus Unitis and likewise, the Austrians inspected the i believe Kaisers.

The Germans were of course interested with the triple gun turrets and the Austrians were interested in the FCS systems etc. Both side were reported to be unimpressed with the other, (which is interesting where most technical exchanges were not that fruitful e.g. the US engineers at Aberdeen were unimpressed with the T34 and the soviets were not impressed with the M4)

Of interest, the Germans thought that the triple gun turret slowed down rate of fire and the subsequent desire to have more turrets so to minimize loss of firepower when one turret is lost and the intent to fight off multiple targets when being chased lead to the Bayerns and the Bismarks retaining the two gun per turret layout.

Did you read this before?
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
Lezt said:
Jura,

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hey Lezt how you doing?
as to your question, I sorta heard about what you said, but just in general, about industrial/naval contacts (but I'm not saying you're wrong), now I checked Friedman's Naval Weapons of WWOne and the only direct info I found though was "the triple turret was disliked" by the Germans (the book says it lead to picking eight 15" in four two-gun turrets instead of ten 14" (2x2, 2x3) for the Badens) LOL
it's kinda obvious to me both Germans and Austrians were confident their solution was the best (also LOL) plus there were similarities in the main batteries, off top of my head
  • sliding breech
  • uniterrupted hoist
  • electric turret (OK not completely, I'm saying simplifications anyway)
  • cartridges for powder
= obvious differences from non-Central-Power-Navies (using this to include the US and Japanese of course)

anyway your question was very useful to me because I recently joined "Dreadnought" group in Facebook (the link is in the post you quoted in case you were interested), where I started with praising the Viribus Unitis (of course :) but was challenged:
a guy quoted
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"Under battle conditions the gun houses could not be ventilated as they would have sucked in the propellant gasses. It was estimated that they had no more than 15 minutes of oxygen once the ventilation was shut down."
to me ... I then did some digging (but was unable to find any ventilation charts), indeed read this would've been addressed in the follow-up class ('Ersatz Monarch') but hey, now I noticed (while searching for what you asked) about the Germans:
"Ejecting cartridge cases out of the rear of the turret presumably ventilated it." nothing fancy either
LOL!

EDIT
actually the sentence I quoted right above goes on with the part in parentheses
(hence there were fewer provisions for ventilation than in other navies)

I'm thinking if to go back to that Facebook discussion or, one hundred years after the issue or non-issue, leave it
 
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