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ORIGINAL: Shark7 Would the concussion from a near miss damage a lightly armored DD though? With a shell that big, its bound to be doing something to the air, land and water surrounding where it's fired at. I am not sure that the concussion in the air would do much more than blow light equipment, maybe even a person, overboard, while a near miss in the water could probably cause enough damage to start some flooding. It would have to be fairly close though since AP shells wouldn't explode on hitting the water. Hell, an 18.1" AP shell fused for a CA/BB, probably wouldn't even sense that it had just punched all the way through a DD. I've read of numerous occasions where large shells went right through a DD/DE because they did not offer enough resistance to trip the fuse.
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When you shoot at a destroyer and miss, it's like hit'in a wildcat in the ass with a banjo. Nathan Dogan, USS Gurnard
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