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Cool but would it still have its propulsion on when firing? Did they have that good of aim to fire while moving?

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Its FCS was more than capable of hitting things on the move. If you’re interested read up on how it worked, you had to hold down a switch when you wanted to fire but the guns would only fire when the gyroscope deemed the ship to be level.

Moving and firing was trivial post war

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I knew Battleship (2012) wouldn’t have lied to me

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Follow on from this (someone please correct me)

  • the guns fired slightly after eachother to reduce the shocks on the structure

  • firing directly ahead has to be done with caution for the same reason

  • the (modern) radar tracks the rounds in flight to improve accuracy on subsequent shots.

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This is badass! Do you have any recommended videos to watch for people wanting to get into this type of models?

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