Re: Fighters and Hangers

--- david smith <bifsmith207@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I always thought that the ranges of navel guns (the
> large caliber ones 
> anyway) was roughly equal once you get above about
> 8". The only thing you 
> alter are the accuracy and the velocity/shell size
> (or dammage/armour 
> peircing) figures. 
-----
     Only if one thinks that 10-12 thousand yarda
is roughly equal. :-)

I say this because the HMS
> coventry`s (morred in london) 
> 8" guns (or are they 6", have to get reference books
> out) have a range of 
> about 30 miles. 
-----
The ship is HMS Belfast and has 12 6" (4x3)
dual purpose guns.

Bye for now,
John L.

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