Ship Photo of the Day

[Treetop Flyer]

Dunno if this has been posted but it’s pretty badass to see the six shells in mid flight. Missouri if I recall correctly.

 

[Max the Mad Russian]

Dunno if this has been posted but it’s pretty badass to see the six shells in mid flight. Missouri if I recall correctly.

Pretty good example of a little tech trick of a big guns: one barrel of a turret fires a nanoseconds later than two others just to exclude the mutual influence of a muzzle vapor on the shells' trajectory. Dunno if the Iowa-class used the general pattern - the middle finger barrel's shot postponed for a bit awhile - but three different groups of a flying shells on a picture (1-3-2) may be both a result of this gunnery feature and inevitably different (though for a hundred of gramms) weight between the powder cages. Thanks a lot!

PS: Soviet cruisers of Kirov-class (1938) of largely Italian design didn't have noted delay for one of a barrel of a turret so the accuracy of the firing was just like in the schoolyard snowball fight