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The weight of the Iowa broadside should include the shells from the six 5" cannon that can bear, and are seen firing in the image. Also they need to be discussed since only half the 5" batteries bear on a given broadside.--
J Clear19:12, 8 July 2006 (UTC)reply
While it is agreed the 5" cannon can be fired in such a manner, their range and destructive power is significantly inferior to the main guns. Using the the above logic, the weight of all armaments -- even antiaircraft guns and other "light" guns -- ought to be included in the broadside calculation. Clearly this isn't the case, and a "broadside" is almost universally understood to mean the maximum tonnage of the main (and therefore heaviest) armament of the warship. -- J. E. Smith, 10:37, 13 Aug 2006 (UTC-5)
Please site a reference that "clearly this isn't the case". It may be that the original light guns added a negligble amount to the broadside, but I doubt the 5" batteries fall off the scale that way. Nor is their range that shabby. The dictionary definition of broadside is all the guns on an entire side, no mention of range. Traditionally the heaviest weapons, smashers or carronades, had the shortest range.--
J Clear01:30, 14 August 2006 (UTC)reply
Ages ago when I was in the military, I thought I understood that a full battleship broadside actually caused the battleship to slide laterally. Is this true and is it significant? Should this information be included in this article?
Veriss04:36, 17 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Iowa-class battleships carried a main armament of nine 16-inch (410 mm) main guns 16 inch correspond to 406.4 mm. It is laudable to round the figures for us ignorant mob, but I wonder whether an almost 4 millimeter larger shell would not be problematic. Or there are some sort of copper rings to compensate for this?
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10:19, 25 September 2014 (UTC) Marco Pagliero Berlinreply
The history section proceeds to the 1590s, and then jumps to the 20th century. The whole period from 1600 to 1900 is entirely omitted--the Age of Sail essentially doesn't exist here. Never mind that the great broadsides of naval history occurred in the 18th and 19th centuries. What gives?
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13:28, 30 November 2022 (UTC)reply