Bgile wrote:...
The counterpoint to that is the Yamato would have a higher effective rate of fire due to her shorter time of flight, as would Iowa.
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Would this be at all noticeable? For instance for the two US guns the muzzle velocities are 2500 fps vs 2300 fps. If the 16/45 has a TOF of 60 seconds the 16/50 has a TOF of 55.2 sec assuming that the relative velocities remain the same however the 16/50 will loose velocity somewhat faster as friction is a function of velocity. So you are looking at a difference of less than 5 seconds. I would think that crew training and techniques could make more difference than this.
To 36,000 yards, time of flight for the 16in/45 is 79.8 seconds, and 66.13 seconds for the 16in/50. I don't know that it makes any difference against a battleship target.
Interesting. I guess the 16/45 must be going further because it's got a higher trajectory. I didn't think about that the first time. That might actually be significant if you are figuring rate of fire. A ~20% difference in time of flight could translate to a rate of fire difference of 10+%.
Karl Heidenreich wrote:
PD: In Japanese anime Science Fiction there is 1970ies TV series about the Yamato resurrected from the bottom of the ocean and transformed into a spaceship that has as main weapon a ray that can destroy an entire planet, like Star War´s Death Star. The series is called "Space Battleship Yamato"...
I wonder what James T Kirk or Jean Luc Picard would make of that.
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