IF shooting at a ship, and you keep hitting the same, hole, eventually your shell will just come out the other side without doing damage (or exploding)...so best to get two in one spot (first one to make a hole, and the second to clean out the insides or make another hole on the other side of the ship), than move a or two meters over and make a new hole.
IF shooting at a ship, and you keep hitting the same, hole, eventually your shell will just come out the other side without doing damage (or exploding)...so best to get two in one spot (first one to make a hole, and the second to clean out the insides or make another hole on the other side of the ship), than move a or two meters over and make a new hole.
Well, if she can hit the same spot each time when she aims, she can just aim at a different spot then with that accuracy, I guess?
IF shooting at a ship, and you keep hitting the same, hole, eventually your shell will just come out the other side without doing damage (or exploding)...so best to get two in one spot (first one to make a hole, and the second to clean out the insides or make another hole on the other side of the ship), than move a or two meters over and make a new hole.
The ordinance needed to punch a hole in a ship in the first place would either be inaccurate for the sake of precision or require advanced guidance technology (or a kamikaze pilot)
IF shooting at a ship, and you keep hitting the same, hole, eventually your shell will just come out the other side without doing damage (or exploding)...so best to get two in one spot (first one to make a hole, and the second to clean out the insides or make another hole on the other side of the ship), than move a or two meters over and make a new hole.
It's not a person we're talking about. If a ship has been totally impaled, its structure has likely been critically damaged already. At that point it's likely to start splitting apart before it starts sinking.
At least I would think it would be at that point. Could a ship theoretically survive being impaled? As mentioned, it would take some supernatural accuracy, so it would be hard to say.
It's not a person we're talking about. If a ship has been totally impaled, its structure has likely been critically damaged already. At that point it's likely to start splitting apart before it starts sinking.
At least I would think it would be at that point. Could a ship theoretically survive being impaled? As mentioned, it would take some supernatural accuracy, so it would be hard to say.
That depends a lot on where the ship was shot. There was a post from earlier talking about how a destroyer could survive any shot forward of their bridge, because none of the vitals are in the bow, up to and including having the whole bow torn off (ask Hatsukaze). (The joke involved Musashi telling destroyers to take deliberately shots to their 'bow' - read as: face - to protect their vitals.)
One of the major reasons why the "tin cans" in The Battle Off Samar lasted as long as they did was that the Japanese dramatically overestimated the ships they were fighting, and loaded AP rounds (designed to detonate only after punching through a specific amount of armor) that would simply pass straight through the functionally unarmored escort ships with trivial harm.
Yes, I really do have to get in some practice from time-to-time.Oh, Houshou-san! This is rare for you.Hiee...Hole in oneMy, I sure have gotten quite rusty, haven't I!
