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Posted by Jon Da Silva on September 29, 2025, 13:45:56, in reply to "Longest range hit"
If so, New Jersey yielded splinter damage on Nowaki at Truk from a distance of 35,700 yards. She fired something like 3-4 full forward salvos (I'd have to look at the deck log). Regardless of how you look at it, it's still the longest range gunfire from one moving target to another. 
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I have seen many times over the years discussions of the longest range hit in naval combat and IIRC the field largely came down to a close tie between Warspite on Guilio Cesare or Scharnhorst/Gneisenau on Glorious, in both cases at around 26,000 yards. I just stumbled onto something that puzzled and surprised me - a claim that the Italian CL, Raimondo Montecuccoli hit the RN minesweeper HMS Hebe with 152mm fire, also at ~26,000 yards. Admittedly, the source is the Wikipedia article on Montecuccoli, but it claims that both sides agree on the event and lists the RN's assessment of the damage to Hebe. Is this possible?
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