Then there is the perpetual Iowa class vs the Yamato/Musashi class debate......what if? Some say the 18" behemoth guns on the Japanese ships would've smoked our ships. Others say US fire control was superior and therefore we would win the shootout.
One thing about naval gunfire fights: they are usually not instantly ka-booming things. The Hood vs Bismark aside, most naval gunfights are a multiple-hit "death of a thousand cuts" type of thing. Hell, the Musashi took something like 17 bomb and 19 torpedo hits! Imagine the [comparatively] pin-prick of naval gunfire shells vs bombs and torpedoes. In an analogy think of being hit with 30 rounds of .22LR vs 10 of .38 Spl. You're shit's gonna be weak either way.
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