[yarddog]

I once read that the Swordfish were so slow the Bismarck’s gunnery computers could not track them.

[Teacher317]

One of those WWI vintage slugs took down a massive state-of-the-art ship that had just torn the vaunted HMS Hood in half in a handful of minutes... in an era when battleship battles could take days to resolve.

Too amazing for words. To me, it's one more example of Divine Intervention in that war.

[HighWheeler]

I heard that same thing on the History Channel about the Swordfish.

[gigster]

Yes, the fire control system was set to track the newer airplanes, and could not calculate the old “obsolete”
bi-planes. They lead them far in front of where the fire-control system thought it would be.
Sometimes, the old technologies work just fine for the job, at hand.