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.
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
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.
