Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "RM Bolzano - Guide 427" video.

  1. 1. Is it possible that Billy Mitchell's bias against armor-piercing bombs could've been a result of having only low-flight-ceiling (thus unable to drop armor-piercing bombs from high enough to have a reasonable chance of penetrating a battleship's deck armor), low-payload (thus unable to carry to any significant distance an armor-piercing bomb heavy enough to carry a significant explosive payload) airplanes available at the time, since an airplane that can't carry a heavy-enough armor-piercing bomb high enough to make it through the target's deck armor is basically just dropping a high-explosive bomb with a much-reduced explosive yield? 2. Did the low height of Sable and Wolverine's flight decks result in any degree of negative training, with carrier pilots becoming accustomed to approaching at heights above the water that would result in a rampstrike on an operational carrier? 3. Was there ever any consideration of making the Iowas' A turret a twin rather than a triple in order to avoid impinging on the ships' TDS? 4. Why are the Iowas' 16" powder magazines vastly larger than their 16" shell magazines? On the ships' plans, the ratio between the sizes of the two types of magazine seems far larger than the ratio between the size of the propellant load used to fire a 16" shell and the size of said 16" shell.
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