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Posted by Shogun on 10/11/2009, 10:45 am, in reply to "Dirctor Control"
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Seems to me that there's another likely factor, that being sea state... In heavy, breaking seas haing the aft mount trained forward would seem to me to be advantageous, e.g, less prospective salt water spray over the gun mechanisms...
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: I believe it had something to do with
: whether or not X mount was on the director
: or not...but don;t remember this well...
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: Hi everybody!
: Please, may anone prevent me from running
: amok?
: I am looking and searching my eyes out for
: the reason why the J/K-class destroyers had
: their aft twin 4,7 in guns mounted forwads.
: I know I read it somewhere but do not find
: the exact reason for this. Also it seems as
: the N-class had their aft mounts traind aft.
: I saw pix of N-cl vessels showing their guns
: being trained exatcly in 180° ship long.
: axis. This would not have been possible in
: J+K-classes, as their mounts could only be
: trained from 170° stbd to 170° bbd.
: Or where all refitted later so their guns
: were mounted aft?
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: Thanks a lot for any hints for the reason
: why to mount them showing forwards,
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: very best regards,
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: Thorsten
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