Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "HMS X1 - Optimal Sub or Sub Optimal?" video.

  1. 1. Sloped armor is most beneficial when incoming shells strike it at a fairly-shallow angle. For outwardly-sloped belt armor, like that found on all World Wars-era capital ships that sloped their belt armor at all, this means the greatest effectiveness is found at very long ranges, where incoming shells have a fairly-steep angle of fall, and the sloping provides progressively less and less benefit as you get closer in and the trajectories of incoming shells get flatter and flatter. However, since shells're slowed considerably by aerodynamic drag as the range opens and their time-of-flight lengthens, their ability to penetrate belt armor is at its lowest at long range anyway (and, due to shell spread and the inevitable uncertainties in fire control, this is where one is the least likely to even be hit in the first place) meaning that outwardly sloping one's belt armor provides the greatest additional benefit when that benefit is the least needed, and that, where an advantage in armor stopping power is most-sorely-needed (at closer ranges, where incoming shells are more likely to land on target in the first place, and where, having landed on target, they hit with the greatest striking velocity), outwardly-sloped armor leaves its ship holding the bag. Wouldn't slanting the belt armor considerably back be better, by providing the greatest boost to shell deflection at the close ranges where the armor needs the most help to keep out enemy fire (and by forcing enemies trying to negate the benefit of the sloping to shoot from considerably-further out, where inherent imprecisions and inaccuracies will make it the hardest for them to hit in the first place and where aerodynamic drag will rob their shells of the energy necessary to penetrate your armor during the long, arcing flightpath necessary to hit sloped-back armor face-on)? 2. Whose bright idea was it to compromize the Iowas' starboard torpedo-defense system by converting most of the third-deck void spaces to other use? 3. What's the worst case, in the period the channel covers and OUTSIDE of Imperial Japan and the WWII-era iterations of the other Axis powers, of a nation's naval war effort being sabotaged by interservice rivalry?
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