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As a rather belated note, I'm currently developing a new version of this article at User:Nick-D/Drafts12. I expect to post it here later today, or within the next week. Comments and changes are most welcome both while it is in draft stage and, of course, after it is posted here. Apologies for the late notification. Nick-D (talk) 22:54, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've just posted the new version of the article. Sorry again for not inviting contributions to its development earlier. Nick-D (talk) 08:12, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Use of main guns for AA?
The article says Tirpitz fired on the bombers with her massive 15-inch main guns. On the face of it, this seems like a pointless thing to do - compared to a dedicated AA gun, the main guns turn and fire very slowly, are directed by the wrong kind of system (a gun laying "computer", rather than a radar system) and fire AP rounds with contact fuses, rather than fragmenting rounds with proximity fuses. They surely couldn't expect to ever hit a plane with that. Were the guns loaded with some kind of canister round? Were they just trying to add smoke to obscure themselves? It doesn't seem likely that a trained professional crew like Tirpitz would just fire just on the off chance of some one-in-a-million hit - so what was their intention? -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk12:36, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Afaik there was anti aircraft ammunition for the main guns of the yamato class. Maybe Tirpitz had similar ammunition? 193.90.160.128 (talk)[reply]
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