03-16-2009, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Fred Douglass
.......repeat, RADIUS of a 5" 38 cal HE shell is 1000 yards. Depending on ground penetration, it's much shorter for a 5" shell landing on dirt. On rock........h-m-m-m-m-m.
As for a 16", ya might want to be one time-zone away. Those "small" bursts you see on Iwo or, later, Inchon are after mega penetration (20 feet min.). They couldn't fuse them for surface burst. Only VTF, and then they got air-bursts. They wanted to "dig the enemy out" at both sites. Best spot for a 16" is a solid rock plateau---THEN you'd see sumpin!!!!
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Well I guess I am lucky then that I did not call in any naval gunfire. We had danger close brackets for different stuff we were calling in, and naval gunfire was 1000 meters. They never did make a distinction though between the different size guns on the navy ships.  |