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To: AFreeBird
You don't use 12~16" projectiles against aircraft. That would be like trying to use a 30-06 to shoot down flies.

I think that the Japanese had a kind of 'Beehive' round for their 18" naval gun. Don't know if it was ever fired in action.

23 posted on 12/08/2009 1:15:17 PM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Tallguy
During its final sortie to Okinawa, Yamato opened fire with shotgun rounds in a last-ditch effort to break through the swarms of American aircraft. I couldn't find any record of whether or not they succeeded in downing any aircraft with these rounds.
27 posted on 12/08/2009 9:33:22 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry. - Oliver Cromwell)
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