No it didn’t. While Nelson’s muzzle velocity is 788 m/s, Lion’s one is 747 m/s. Much slower
You have reference? Never heard Royal Navy develop special AP round for supercharge. All I’ve known is supercharge is just with 6crh AP.
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By only 40m/s
The American’s traded nearly 100m/s when they moved to the Super Heavy AP rounds on the North Carolina and South Dakota class Battleships, and only gained it back when they went to the longer barrel 16inch guns that were mounted on the Iowa’s.
And yet those guns, WITH that much less velocity, were STILL more powerful with those shells, than the Colorado classes which had longer barrels, and still used the older Lighter shells.
In Naval battles Weight of a shell is ALOT more important than its flat out velocity.
As for the 15inch thing i WAS wrong. But it still doesn’t matter, its only a 1,800 pound shell, that was even with the Super charges, it was only about 10 m/s faster than the Lion’s guns (atleast with AP, the 15inch guns with super charges and HE rounds could hit around 800m/s)
Not in war thunder with such slow shell velocity, in pure penetration calculation, difference is about 30 mm, problem is, falling angle is almost double, meaning that the real thickness that Lion’s shell has to pen excels those of Nelson’s shell have to. Thats why I saids practical penetration.
AP and HE has same weight. AP with supercharge is also with 804 m/s. AP with 757 m/s is with standard charge.
After the ballistic update, the differences are within single %.
That’s much better news. So at least Lion’s shell would have better penetration than Nelson, though I’m skeptical it would be better than Vanguard’s.
I just found out that HMS Vanguard in WTM also uses Renown’s turret, which is terrible news
now it rather seems like miracle that HMS Barham uses its own unique 15’’ Mark I modelling, compared to other Royal Navy 15’'s.
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Most of British 15’’ Mark I turret is just copy paste from HMS Renown. How disappointing.
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Makes me worry also about their modelling of the improved turret armour, its only 13" so we need it to be done right as that’s less than even Hood.
I mean Archangelsk still has its Mark I/N mounts which NONE of the R class EVER RECIVED
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Yeah, even soviet bias cannot win Gaijin’s laziness.
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The turret face was 13" inch thick historically. Roof was increased to 6" but that’s it.
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damn, was hoping for a kgv.
not that im not gonna eventually enjoy playing it, but was hoping for something a bit different than another 15 inch slinger into 2 different postcodes
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Thank god for that and they have the 5.25" guns, so will have any extra kick to them.
Also saw they mentioned radar too.
Just have to hope she doesnt sink after 1 hit
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No British capital ships are going to get one tapped easily given their excellent module placement. However bear in mind Vanguard’s armour is not great so if you do something wrong like showing your broadside to enemy with powerful guns, you are going to bleed from crew loss quite badly.
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Rodney was for the first month or so.
Even by destroyers, she just flooded and sunk.
She’s finally been fixed, but took a while.
Had a kronshtadt take 20 minutes to take out my rodney just to instantly get one tapped by my warspite immediately after
Well her ammo and magazines are swapped now which also is very nice. Will be interesting how they model the hoists