Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 054C (3/3)" video.

  1. I dunno if you can just slap/bolt a modern 4-5 inch gun to a wooden deck ship and call it good. Mass isn’t the only issue - what about recoil and vibration force? A 4-5” gun generates a lot of recoil / vibration, outside what its internal compensator gear can nullify. Wouldn’t a 5” gun firing every 10 seconds vibrate whatever bolts you used to mount it to the deck that, after a few minutes, the mounting gear would be chewing up the wood?
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