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Ah, the Yamato had "beehive" shells. Scary on paper, but the gunners were no good, and the shells themselves screwed up the 18 inchers. The shrapnel was incendiary...

Anyways, the battleship was the Bismarck

Ah that's why...that means the weapon designer has planned everything in real life......

actually because it was the first time i played gwx i think it was a torpedo bomber.

but thier where so many planes around i was not sure.

and it wasnt the plane that was hit with some gun and its emblem remained in the air.

BOTH COMPLETERLY DIFFERENT THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

There are a lot of bullets flying though the air when you have so many ships all together firing at aircraft.

I am HIGHLY skeptical that Bismark fired her big guns at an aircraft such as a PBY, and subsequently scored a hit against that aircraft which did little or no damage.

More likely, what you saw was scarecly visible machine gun fire hitting the aircraft... or perhaps a flak burst.

And yes.... historically bismark DID use her big guns as an Anti-Aircraft defense.

though not as a direct impact weapon.

the strategy involved was one of firing a volley at approaching low level torpedo bombers in hopes that the resulting large splashes of the shells hitting the water ahead of the approaching aircraft would either provide an obstacle to the torpedo bombers to dodge, thus throwing off their aim... or that one of the aircraft would actually be hit by a shell or a shell splash causing the plane to crash.

my thoughts exactly.... pity... or thankfully... we'll really never know which... the Bismark didn't stop those torpedo bombers in the final engagement like that. :-?

Doubt she would have gotten much farther, her fuel would run out sometime soon. The entire Royal Navy was after her.... she was dead as soon as the Hood went under