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Great diorama of the WW2-era USS Missouri firing her guns (lemmy.world)
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[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cool but would it still have its propulsion on when firing? Did they have that good of aim to fire while moving?

[–] copd@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Its FCS was more than capable of hitting things on the move. If you're interested read up on how it worked, you had to hold down a switch when you wanted to fire but the guns would only fire when the gyroscope deemed the ship to be level.

Moving and firing was trivial post war

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I knew Battleship (2012) wouldn't have lied to me

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Follow on from this (someone please correct me)

  • the guns fired slightly after eachother to reduce the shocks on the structure

  • firing directly ahead has to be done with caution for the same reason

  • the (modern) radar tracks the rounds in flight to improve accuracy on subsequent shots.