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The link is containing a gfx on real fall of shot of 16" /50 on distances of 25 and 35 thousand yards in comparison to the size of the Pentagon if you eliminate the splinters radius there were around 5 hits on a BB-ship size target . http://www.fas.org/man//dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/mk-7.htm So, a...

No, but Iowa straddled Nowaki with her first salvo at about 35,000 yds. Im not so familiar with US Battleships, but if I remember correctly, there was a revision of the gun mounts on Iowa (or another ship of this class)at the end of 1944 because of not negligible deviations between the gun mounting...

first wave was a swordfish torpedoattack

following were bombing attacks
the number of downed planes were only the number the ship claims as own shooting downs

Then, we have the historical precedent of Bismarck, with it's poor AA capability, being attacked by 15 Swordfishes out of which only 1 hit . the poor AA-defence performance of Bismarck was due to lack of adequate training prior to the operation Flak training was abandoned because of lack of time co...

Erhöhung -elevation angle
50%ige Längenstreuung -dispersion (50% of all events within this interval of gaussian distribution)

18 leak pumps (Leckpumpen)
each 15 m³/min at 12 m pumpingheight

4 bilge pumps (Lenzpumpen)
each 1m³/min

4 fire pumps
each 1m³/min

4 seawater pumps (for general purpose of seawater within ship)
-2x1m³/min
-2x1,5m³/min

3 portable pumps
each 1,5m³/min

1 portable pump
0,5m³/min

1 handcrafted pump

Here is a original chart with german dispersion data for single shots As you can see the dispersion was found to be dependend on elevation angle for salvoes they use an correction factor named "Streungswert Batterie" (battery dispersion factor) wich was simply multiplied to the 50%ige Läng...

My informations came from this report

some stats about attack on Scharnhorst on june 21 th 1940

4 waves
1) 6planes/ 2 shot down
2) 5 planes 2 shot down
3) 8 planes 2 shot down
4) 6 planes zero shot down

ammo expenditure
906 x 10,3
1256 x 3,7
2385 x 2,0

"Might as well throw crumpets at her" To quote a certain film. Its hard to beleive a 1000lb AP bomb traveling relatively slowly compared to a 1590lb AP shell traveling at around 2400fps could penetrate 9" of deck armour? This is an excellent argument. Really makes you think! no speed...

At the command "Versenken" closure condition of the ship was canceled, the bilge pumps were switched to pump in reverse direction and all? possible seaside valves were openend

The capacity of the 18 bilge pumps was about 16,000 tons of water per hour.

Absolutely nothing

I'm am sorry i forgot this preemptive strike on anchoring ships.

neil hilton wrote: However, the RN 15" 42cal fitted on the RN BBs and BCs were all very accurate pieces.

the guns were comparatively often used, but the biggest ships sunk by this weapon were, as far as i know, 2 italian cruisers.

I thought the German system didn't use RPC in one of the axes and instead used "follow the pointer" in either elevation or traverse. you are mixing different aiming and firing procedures the german capital ships use the following aiming and firing procedures 1) main procedure RPC for elev...