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Old 10-29-11, 07:00 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ. View Post
they didnt serve alot of realistic purpose, but they were rangefinders. Not much use though as the FCS and central targeting didnt really need them
Actually they served a very important purpose. The Fire Control rangfinders could easily be knocked out by one lucky hit, as happened to Bismarck. The the local fire control, while vastly less effective, would be all you had left. That's why every battleship had them since Dreadnought in 1906.
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