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Originally Posted by NEON DEON
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Originally Posted by Heibges
The text by the naval officer is ambiguous as to whether it "moved" as in propelled the ship through the water, or whether it just rocked the ship violently.
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How the heck could the ship move so violently and such a distance as implied by your photo? (You read the other explanation did you not about the other side being obscured?) Did you see the video clips? How much movement are we talking here according to you? One inch? 10 yards? 100 yards?
Besides looking at your pic again those are shock wave patterns from the guns firing...
Again from the blasted article
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-022.htm
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What looks like a side-ways wake is just the water being broiled up by the muzzle blasts. The ship doesn't move an inch or even heel from a broadside.
The guns have a recoil slide of up to 48 inches and the shock is distributed evenly through the turret foundation and the hull structure. The mass of a 57,000 ton ship is just too great for the recoil of the guns to move it. Well, theoretically, a fraction of a millimeter.
But because of the expansive range of the overpressure (muzzle blast), a lot of the rapidly displaced air presses against the bulkheads and decks. Those structures that are not armored actually flex inwards just a bit, thus displacing air quickly inside the ship and causing loose items to fly around. Sort of like having your house sealed up with all windows and vents closed and when you slam the front door quickly the displaced air pops open the kitchen cabinets.
R. A. Landgraff
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You think BB designers would be so incompentent as to not put good recoil mechanisms in? How coul you fight in ship that moves as much as you seem to think?