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  1. Newsgroups: sci.military
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ciss!law7!military
  3. From: mvcy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
  4. Subject: Re: Yamamoto? (was Re: Battleship Diplomacy)
  5. Message-ID: <Bzs8v5.LIL@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  6. Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
  7. Organization: Cornell University
  8. References: <Bzo8Iu.Bq4@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <Bzq2up.4s8@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  9. Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:25:53 GMT
  10. Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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  14. From mvcy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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  16. In article <Bzq2up.4s8@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>,
  17. "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com> writes: 
  18. > 
  19. >    I'm fairly certain that the Shinano's flight deck was at least partially
  20. > concrete. Dulin and Garzke have a remarkable cross-section plan of the 
  21. > Shinano, so I can check that to confirm. Apparently, by late in the war,
  22. > the Japanese were running short of steel, and therefore became quite 
  23. > adept at substituting concrete. I'll check my sources to confirm this.
  24.  
  25. I remember concrete armoring to be there also from reading Japanese accounts.
  26. I can't remember what the exact sources were though.  I also recall that the
  27. Shinano was supposed to have Rocket AA battery (12? mounts of multiple 
  28. rocket launchers).  I always wondered about that.  Could it have been at all
  29. effective?  Does anyone know how that was supposed to work?  (i.e. guided,
  30. unguided, proximity-fuse, shot-gun effect or what?)
  31.  
  32. Satoshi Amagai
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