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Originally Posted by RustyBattleship
Wave motion: I think you mean gun stabilization. This was introduced into all the 16" guns of the three fast class Battleships in WW II. The Salem class Cruisers also had it. It just took a bunch more years to work the mechanics down small enough to work on a moving tank. But the principals are the same.
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Regarding the Salem's, do you know anything about large gun autoloaders beyond the documents on Gene Slover's web site?
The Salem's could fire ten 8" rounds a minute, and current 5" guns fire up to forty rounds a minute. I'm curious if there are any upper limits (besides crew exhaustion) on how fast two thousand pound shells could be fired, without requiring ridiculously sized motors.