[Coronal]

For a cruiser or destroyer, perhaps. But battleships exist to carry and fire their guns. I would imagine that gunnery expertise would be a top priority on a battleship. As I understand it one of the issues at Samar was that the Japanese overestimated the size and speed of their targets which would lead to errors in calculating their shots.

[central_va]

Another Jap innovation was color coding the ammunition. Each ship had its own color if I understand it correctly when it explodes so they could range their own fire and fire simultaneously.

Yellow, green and pink rounds exploding.