Shipbucket

Hi youboat,

Can you advise why smoothbores for main armament? I'd been of the understanding that such weapons would be detrimental to accuracy at combat ranges - modern tanks use smoothbore main armament (well, except british ones, anyway) - but that's because they fire APDSFS with fins on the back, and even then, the maximum range is ~4km or so, quite short range for a ship.

Regards,
Adam

I figured if your firing guided munitions then you don't want to spin them, plus iirc it also means higher muzzle velocity.

Fred

note that most if not all naval guns are smoothbores. naval guns are closer to artillery guns then to tank guns

I'm pretty sure you mean the opposite.

Thiel wrote:I'm pretty sure you mean the opposite.

ow? I might remember that wrong, but weren't naval guns curved track guns while tanks have linear track guns?

By track, do you mean the rifling? Because a "curved track" gun would then be a rifled gun, which is indeed what most naval cannons are. Smoothbores (ie no rifling) are what modern not-British tanks use.

no, I mean the flight pad.

Hi Ace, are you able to clarify, because I'm afraid I just don't understand this...

i think what ace means is trajectory of the projectile. smooth bore is more of a curved rising and then falling to target trajectory " curved track " were as a rifled gun is more of a direct line of sight to target " Linear Track"
correct me if I'm wrong?