I mean, I could go a bit inside the vital areas and dig around there. Putting aside that Richelieu's maximum range is also due to the greater barrel elevation and instead considering that the French lowered the muzzle velocity of those guns in 1942, and adding in the rather bad judgement that Friedman give to French rangefinders (for the 12m RF it's a range error of 175m at 20km, compare to 39-108m at same range for the German 10.5m RF) and keeping in mind the dispersion issues, you'll struggle to sell the French gun to have a larger effective range when combined with the ship. Even with a delay coil I would expect dispersion to be worse than average.Įffective range is more than ballistic properties. You have high velocity large caliber guns that are placed extremely closely to each other (1.95m for the outer guns, compare to 3.75m on Bismarck). If you look at the turret, it makes very much sense that the dispersion would be horrendous. With the refit in the late 40s, which added delay coils to the guns, those dispersion issues were solved. Bagnasco gives some detail on this, tho unfortunately due to quarantine I don't have access to the book at the moment, but off memory post war they conducted firing trials with Richelieu and found spreads of over 1,000m at 20km.
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