Range was about the same as USN, but I'm not sure if their fire control was equal to USN.
US fire control was overwhelmingly superior in 1943.
No. Japanese fire control was weak at longer ranges. Yet as accounts of the night combat engagements off Guadalcanal reveal, the Japanese were tough opponents in surface warfare, especially in the early years of WW II.
Based on optical sighting, Japanese fire control was relatively weak at long range. Yet, as accounts of the night combat engagements off Guadalcanal reveal, the Japanese were tough opponents in surface warfare, especially in the early years of WW II.
Getting hit by a 16 inch shell will do the damage you need.
That was the main difference, American radar was integrated into fire control systems, Japanese were not.
Japanese still relied on visual targeting, therefore range of guns were a non factor.
A thousand B-17s can be replaced by one F-15 with smart weapons.
A battleship can be taken out by a much smaller ship with guided anti-ship missiles at a far greater range than any sized gun
Yamato, not Yamamoto. One was a ship, the other an admiral.
It wasn’t. They still relied on optics. That’s why they had the “pagoda” style masts was for fire control.
Japanese optical rangefinders and fire control systems were superior to American. Their rangefinders had a much wider baseline than ours.
American RADAR rangefinders and fire control systems were the best in the world, bar none, and far exceeded the effectiveness of the Japanese optical systems. We put RADAR fire control on any ship that could support it ... which, by 1944, meant every warship in the fleet.