Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The English Armada (1589) - Anything you (Spanish) can do, we can do... worse?" video.

  1. At least they actually managed to land...
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  2. Why did early British dreadnoughts and even super-dreadnoughts continue to use open sighting hoods for so long, given that this both badly compromised their ship design and fire arcs (delaying the Royal Navy's adoption of superfiring turrets, and, once they did start using them, rendering the superfiring turrets unable to fire on arcs close to fore-or-aft for fear of wrecking the turret below) and introduced a gaping vulnerability in battle (since if the muzzle blast of a turret firing overhead could come through the sighting hood and wreck the turret below, there's no reason the blast of an exploding shell impacting near the turret - even one rejected by the ship's armor, that otherwise would've done insignificant damage - wouldn't come in and wreck the turret in exactly the same manner)?
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