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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
The sub is a lousy gun platform. The inaccuracy is partly a reflection of that and partly that sub crews were not trained to the standards of the surface Navy gun crews.
Our job is easy! Just install New Real Deck Gun and get a partial taste of reality. It doesn't matter what your reload rate is if you can only get off an aimed shot a couple of times per minute. Guns don't belong on subs. That's why you no longer see them there. They didn't work out.
The Japanese surface navy was way too accurate for our submariners' taste. They often scored hits from five miles away and further on the first couple of shots.
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Tell that to the crew of the Momi DD i sent to the bottom in an intense nightly surface battle. She managed to spot my scope, and evaded the torp i tried sending down her throat. Just as she was about to overrun me, i ordered flank speed, some rudder and an emergence surface. She only got to fire two or three shots at me before i was 'under her guns'. I was so close, she couldnt elevate her guns low enough to hit me. I think i took only one or two shots, for minor damage, while i managed to take out her engines pretty early in the fight, allowing me to keep my favourable position. Hair raising little bout that, and one in which i was most definately the underdog!