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by srothstein
Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:45 pm
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Topic: USS IOWA VS Japan's Yamato battleship
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Re: USS IOWA VS Japan's Yamato battleship

Just for grins, it appears that the guns on the Iowa were accurate to about 2 secs of angle. MOA is one inch per 100 yards. That works out to about 250 inches at 25,000 yards. I used a rough estimate from the graph of about 700 yards spread at 25,000 yards range. That is about 25,200 inches. Since one MOA is 250 inches, that works out to about 100 MOA or just shy of 2 seconds.

And given the potential for an attack on the Pentagon by the Iowa (the Navy does hate those guys in charge), 2 seconds seems from the graph as being close enough.

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