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Posted by SanDiegoShipMan
on 10/11/2009, 10:50 am, in reply to "Re: Dirctor Control"
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That was a practical reason why the RN and other navies with open-backed gun mounts rotated those mounts (and some gun directors) with the shield forward to get out of the wind & rain. Of course, that was probably not part of the rationale for doing what the RN did in restricting those aft mountings in the JKN classes.
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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,
:
: Thorsten
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