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Originally Posted by drronnie
It would have looked awesome with four guns three anti aircraft and the front 8.8 naval guns. Why was this removed by the Kriegsmarine?
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Purpose of the deck gun was sinking unarmed, unescorted merchants. By the time VIIC/41 entered service, almost all merchants were armed and escorted, and to make matters worse skies were crawling with Allied planes, making deck gun a heavy useless weight. This led to replacing it with additional AA guns.