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  • #16
    Originally posted by Tiornu View Post
    Actually Hood experienced quite a few salvos before she went poof, and twenty years of aging. Her design and her career should not be defined entirely by the events of her loss.
    I will give points for her age, but design issues and material construction may have helped it's demise. That is unless the German rounds were "special"? According to big gun ballistics they were not "special".

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    • #17
      They were conventional 38cm AP rounds, nothing remarkable. The key factor in Hood's loss was the difference in naval warfare as conducted in two eras. Before WWI, gunnery controls put distinct limits on the chances to hit at longer ranges--in fact, the definition of long range was quite different from what it would become over the following decades. Hood's designers were able to see the change taking place, and consequently Hood had deck protection that was exceptionally good by most standards in 1920. Unfortunately for her, Bismarck wasn't shooting at her in 1920. Combined with the bad luck that directed the shell onto her from a strange angle, the range was enough to expose the fact that Hood had not received a modernization of her deck protection. This was a flaw shared by several of Britain's old battleships.

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