How to Build a Battleships Main Guns - Is a Bigger Battery Better?

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Today we take a look at some of the basics on how a battleship gun in constructed and what variations you might see in so doing.

Sources:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Naval-Ordnance-Gunnery-Bureau-Personnel/dp/1940453461
Text Book of Gunnery - 1902 - Ordnance Office
Popular Science Monthly - Volume 91
Brasseys Naval Annual - Various

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