historyillustrations·[Dormant] moved to [email protected]byPugJesus Great diorama of the WW2-era USS Missouri firing her gunsView original on lemmy.world90Comments5Reply
The Pantser lemmy.world3Hide 3 repliesCool but would it still have its propulsion on when firing? Did they have that good of aim to fire while moving?5Reply
ccopd replylemmy.world2Hide 2 repliesIts 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 war21Reply
HHappycamperNZ replylemmy.worldFollow 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. 4Reply
OOhi lemmy.worldThis is badass! Do you have any recommended videos to watch for people wanting to get into this type of models?3Reply
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Cool but would it still have its propulsion on when firing? Did they have that good of aim to fire while moving?
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
I knew Battleship (2012) wouldn't have lied to me
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.
This is badass! Do you have any recommended videos to watch for people wanting to get into this type of models?