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Originally Posted by gunnut
Is the 76mm really that bad? Isn't it like the most popular gun mount in the entire world? Or it's just bad on the Perry, in the middle of the ship, with no firing angle fore or aft?
I'm partial for the 5-in but the 76mm should have a place on smaller warships.
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I, too, prefer 5-inch on up. But with today's destroyers as big as WW II cruisers there's not a heck of a lot of damage a 76 can do except drill deep holes and hope it hits a critical piece of equipment.
But the problem we were having with the FFG-7 class ships was that there was ALREADY 12 pounds of potatoes in a 10 pound sack and there was no way we could get any more potatoes in without taking some of the others out.