[TeleStraightShooter]

One of my favorite stories about the Bismarck is that her AA guns were too "advanced" to track aircraft that traveled @ speeds < 90 mph.

What self-respecting German engineer could have possibly *imagined* that the Mighty Bismarck would have faced WWI aircraft!?
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[fso301]

One of my favorite stories about the Bismarck is that her AA guns were too "advanced" to track aircraft that traveled @ speeds < 90 mph. What self-respecting German engineer could have possibly *imagined* that the Mighty Bismarck would have faced WWI aircraft!?

True. Had those planes been shot down or at least enough of them to drive off the remainder, the Bismarks steering issue wouldn't have been a problem.

[epow]

What self-respecting German engineer could have possibly *imagined* that the Mighty Bismarck would have faced WWI aircraft!?

The Brit pilots who flew the old Fairey Swordfish (they called it the "stringbag") used a bolt head on the engine cowling as a sighting point for aiming their torpedoes. They lined up the enemy ship with the bolt head and then estimated the range and how much to lead the target. Not quite state of the art, even for 1940.