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- From: "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com>
- Subject: Re: Alaska Class Cruisers
- Message-ID: <C17w2q.FFC@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: AT&T
- References: <BzzCx3.ts@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <C0o9IK.I90@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <C0r2FK.C92@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:44:50 GMT
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- From "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com>
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- In article <C0r2FK.C92@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> nik@nik.b30.ingr.com (Nik Simpson) writes:
- >
- >
- >In article <C0o9IK.I90@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com> writes:
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- >>
- >> I never understood why the British changed from their slow/heavy shell
- >> formula which worked so well.
- >
- > Its one of those times when two sides in an argument manage to
- >simultaneously convince the other side that they are correct. The
- >quality of German gunnery in WWI was in part attributed to the high
- >velocity and flat trajectory of their shells. Testing after the War
- >convinced the Admiralty that the high velocity route was the correct
- >one.
- But they also should have known that the "quality of German gunnery in WWI"
- was a realtive thing, (i.e. the Germans looked good because the British were
- so bad) and that most of the problem with the British gunnery was poor
- quality shells, and that this was fixed after the Battle of Jutland.
- They should have known better.
-
- David R. Wells
-
- Disclaimer: I don't speak for AT&T, and they don't speak for me.
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