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To: Governor Dinwiddie

US fire control was overwhelmingly superior in 1943.


4 posted on 11/10/2025 11:55:15 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Thanks for the info. That's kinda what I suspected.

5 posted on 11/11/2025 12:01:07 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Exactly. The Japanese found out the hard way.


7 posted on 11/11/2025 12:12:33 AM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I think the USN BB main battery gun fire control system could accept both optical and radar targeting data at the same time. I do not think it was either one or the other. Which was awesome and deadly.


17 posted on 11/11/2025 3:16:26 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...x)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
US fire control was overwhelmingly superior in 1943.

Unfortunately it was not properly used at first particularly in the naval battles at Guadalcanal. It cost the US Navy dearly until Adm Lee on USS Washington showed how effectively it could be used by sinking the Kirishima in one of the few battleship vs battleship battles of the pacific in WWII.

40 posted on 11/11/2025 7:00:20 AM PST by pfflier
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