[rlmorel]

"...Therefore, these plates are the only warship armor plates that could not be completely penetrated by any gun ever put on a warship when installed leaning back at 45°, as they were in the actual turrets!!! Even to completely hole the plate all the way through at that inclination requires a brand new 16"/50 Mark 7 or German 38cm SK C/34 gun at point-blank range firing the latest versions of their respective AP projectiles; it might be cracked at a lower striking velocity, but no hole put entirely through it! And they said guns had completely overmatched all armor - not so!!!

Very cool...I did not know that! Wow!

[dpetty121263]

I saw another Navy report the Belt armored steel was inferior on latter built Japanese Battleships due to dirt being in the metal.