sadly um
Guns used in single coastal artillery mountings (BSG) in Denmark had very little power assist and were hand rammed. They are said to have had a ROF of one shot every 70 seconds. The twin mountings originally intended for Gneisenau but allocated for Denmark coastal defense would have had a ROF similar to the ships.
yes cause she sank in 43 ? thats why both would have had same fate if she didnt sink
Yes, the guns are from Bismark but the power assistance doesnt fit. And so would have the same ROF as the coastal guns
Gnesinau was in germany, thats why the conversion began, scharnhorst wasn’t
this right here says other wise i could find no documents saying they where wrong
yes she was at the bottom of the ocean at the time kinda hard to get a boat there thats under water
Yeah, due to size and weight restriction, neither Gnes, sevastapol or if it had ever happened, Scharn would have been able to have the power assisted loading. It wouldnt fit. Which means it would have likely had the same relaod as the coastal batteries
but probably worse if dealing with the rolling of the ship, etc.
So the fact they currently have the same reload as Bismark, is a total work of fiction
Gnesinau was decommissioned before scharn was sunk
Gneisenau had had its bow blown apart by an RAF bomb that exploded the ammunition - apparently it would have taken longer to repair than to rebuild with 15" guns - dunno how that works, but it is repeated in many places.
Maybe they had the 15" guns ready to go but would have had to build the 11" guns from scratch?