Turrets, main guns and firing

[Adm.Hawklyn]

Taking from SonicB's post in the Alpha 9 update thread....

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Main battery salvos under central direction just need to fire all at once. This was accepted practice since Jacky Fisher rigged up electrically controlled broadsides on HMS Bellerophon back in 1877. It's the only way to avoid roll and recoil screwing up the aim.

iirc, to most of the world's navies, firing everything all at once was accepted practice...

Until the Americans really got into gun testing with their triples and found that concussive force would affect shell travel, so they devised a system where the center gun of the triple turret would fire half second or so behind the other two guns....

I mean, I do agree with the stance that everything should fire all at once, but I'm just saying that towards ww2, as more testing was done, things started changing especially with more powerful guns. I recall Drachinifel's [or something related] video on the Furious [or one of his videos] where he talks about gun crews experiencing such shock within the ship when the 18" fired that they saw their own eyeball interiors. Not to mention that a video talking about Musashi [I believe the video where wreckage was discovered] and the pillboxes on her deck to protect the crew from the force of her guns. I recall hearing somewhere [possibly same video] that firing her guns caused at least one crew member death.

Now that we have 20" guns... Can you imagine what sort of concussive force that would entail for the crew?

Anyway, just thought this should be posted elsewhere, didnt want hijack the update thread in case debate started.

Edited November 18, 2020 by Adm.Hawklyn
Fixing tags.