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Originally Posted by Rongel
How about the deck gun then? Was it stabilized? Because now it's fixed on the horizon and no wind speed or rolling or pitching can affect it. So can we un-stabilize it somehow? (I made a rant about this in the deck gun thread too, sorry for doubles!).
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No, no naval guns in WW2 were stabilized. Battleships had what was called a "Stable element", which used a gyroscope to delay firing until the ship was perfectly level, but no smaller vessels had this. The gunner had to fire "on the roll", just as they did in the days of sailing ships.