The Viribus Unitis Battleship: 1:25 Model; Main Gun Turrets
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Jura The idiot
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... one century ago, around this moment:
numerous German ships should had been destroyed (but hadn't because of issues of British shells,
explained in for example "The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period" by J. Moretz, mainly in Gunnery and Torpedo Fire part of The Experience of the Late War section)! That's what I'll repeat in the pub today, close to the exact time shown above
Jura The idiot
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LOL it's embarrassing to be like two hours late after one hundred years:
Franz Ritter von Hipper orders fire!
(of big guns for the first time during Battle of Jutland ... I believe it was his call, of course)
(of big guns for the first time during Battle of Jutland ... I believe it was his call, of course)
Jura The idiot
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it's been some time
Aug 31, 2015
(thanks
dtulsa
for the link
Aug 31, 2015
... and now of the Texas (BB-35):... have you noticed the tumblehome of the Viribus Unitis?
...
dtulsa
for the link
Jura The idiot
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didn't know HMS Hood
Laid down: 1 September 1916
until now:
"... One of very few of its crew still alive, Alec Kellaway, 98, a stoker on the Hood, travelled from Hampshire for the event.
He was joined by 97-year-old Commander Keith Evans from Surrey, who served on the ship right up until Britain declared war on Germany exactly 77 years ago tomorrow. ..."
'The Mighty Hood': Clyde centenary celebration for the pride of the Royal Navy
Laid down: 1 September 1916
until now:
"... One of very few of its crew still alive, Alec Kellaway, 98, a stoker on the Hood, travelled from Hampshire for the event.
He was joined by 97-year-old Commander Keith Evans from Surrey, who served on the ship right up until Britain declared war on Germany exactly 77 years ago tomorrow. ..."
'The Mighty Hood': Clyde centenary celebration for the pride of the Royal Navy
I would highly recommend for anyone, if you are ever in Houston Texas, to go to the San JAcinto Battlefield Memorial and see the Battleship TExas which is moored there as an historical ship.
The only Dreadnought battleship remaining.
A beautiful ship:
Also, see my:
for a LOT of still pictures from my visit onboard the ship.
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Jura The idiot
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from France Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
... 830 m/s speed at the muzzle LOL not bad at all considering it's 45 calibers ... looking at the chart with a top view of the turret, and at the picture below, it seems blast bags covered about two meters of the barrels:
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don't worry in... we get OT
The Viribus Unitis Battleship: 1:25 Model; Main Gun Turrets
Jean Bart class
Reading recently about Sharnhorst 280 mm only
And yes i like not only modern armies/weapons i think you have guess it since long time but WWII and we get OT
Sharnhorst was designed like the Mogamis, the Mogamies were designed to easily swap 5 turret of 3X 150mm for 5 turret of 2X 200mm, the Sharnhorst was designed to swap 3 turret of 3X 280 mm for 3 turret of 2X 380mm guns.
6 guns is a weak broadside, but then again, Bismark did straddle Hood on the 3rd salvo with the same 380mm gun and similar fire controls.