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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.

José M. Rico wrote:KGV. Torpedo defence: 1,000 lb!!!!!!!
What is that, some kind of joke?

Afair that was the designed resistance. These figures were sometimes (much) higher than the actual ones.

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...

As I said, I looked the angle of fall for JB's magazine hit up. It is given at 33° as I posted earlier.

BS won't hit much when she fires 3 RPGPM at her loading angle of 2.5°.

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

You must really be bored...

Well done, I can only agree.

@alecsandros Why is BS a better design than Richelieu?

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 ...

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...

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 ...