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After successfully not ever catching up on the last thread like I kept vaguely gesturing to myself I would, I look forward to doing the same with this thread. Also look up Bruce Bairnsfather's WWI comics if you've never seen them - I just got a small collection of them and they're great.
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FMguru posted:The other thing about battleships in modern combat is that while the hull may be heavily enough armored to stand up to anything short of a nuke, the sensors and communications systems are not. Sometimes they even do it to themselves! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_South_Dakota_(BB-57)#Second_Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal quote:Shortly thereafter, at about 23:30, an error in the electrical switchboard room knocked out power aboard South Dakota, disabling her radar systems and leaving the ship all but blind to the Japanese vessels approaching the force. By this time, Hashimoto's ships had inflicted serious damage on the American destroyer screen; two of the destroyers were torpedoed (one of which, Benham, survived until the following morning) and a third was destroyed by gunfire. This compounded South Dakota's problems, as she had to keep clear of the burning wrecks. By being forced to turn in front of the burning destroyers, the fires backlit South Dakota and highlighted her presence to the Japanese ships. At 23:40, she engaged Hashimoto's ships with her rear turret, which accidentally set her Kingfishers on fire, but a second salvo knocked two of the three burning aircraft overboard and blew out the fire on the third. Power was restored and she fired five salvos from her main battery at a range of 5,800 yd (5,300 m), but the shock of firing the guns caused further electrical failures, disabling her gunnery and search radars for five minutes shortly before midnight. Upon reactivating her search radar, South Dakota picked up numerous Japanese vessels directly ahead. These were Kondō's ships, and they immediately launched a volley of torpedoes at South Dakota, though they all missed.[18][19] Been a bit since I've read it, but Neptune's Inferno covers it pretty well.
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