Terminus -> RE: CLAA Omaha (8/25/2015 8:14:31 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Admiral DadMan quote:
ORIGINAL: Terminus Quick thing about the 1.1in AA: it only existed in a quad mount. Nice catch. Copied my numbers down wrong. Thanks. quote:
ORIGINAL: Terminus Also, it was meant to replace, not complement, the .50cal AAMG. Seriously? I thought the progression was .50cal to 20mm in tandem with 1.1in to 40mm? Nope. The .50cals were realized to be too feeble well before the war, and well before the Oerlikon was a thing (much less the Bofors). The 1.1in was designed and produced to replace the .50cal, but took so long to get into mass production that the .50cal was still there in large numbers when the war began. Once used operationally, the Navy quickly realized that the 1.1in was bad as well, and that spurred deployment of 20mm and 40mm. Remember that the pre-war navy had 3in and 5in AA guns to fill the medium and heavy flak roles.
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