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As a rather belated note, I'm currently developing a new version of this article at User:Nick-D/Drafts12. I expect to post it here later today, or within the next week. Comments and changes are most welcome both while it is in draft stage and, of course, after it is posted here. Apologies for the late notification. Nick-D ( talk) 22:54, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
The article says Tirpitz fired on the bombers with her massive 15-inch main guns. On the face of it, this seems like a pointless thing to do - compared to a dedicated AA gun, the main guns turn and fire very slowly, are directed by the wrong kind of system (a gun laying "computer", rather than a radar system) and fire AP rounds with contact fuses, rather than fragmenting rounds with proximity fuses. They surely couldn't expect to ever hit a plane with that. Were the guns loaded with some kind of canister round? Were they just trying to add smoke to obscure themselves? It doesn't seem likely that a trained professional crew like Tirpitz would just fire just on the off chance of some one-in-a-million hit - so what was their intention? -- Finlay McWalter··–· Talk 12:36, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
i remember very vividly that there was an enourmous crater shot at ground level near the Tirpitz sunk. I can't find it, you ever seen it? Was it actually removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.11.3.98 ( talk) 16:28, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
I think a footnote linked to British Summer Time#Periods of deviation is needed to explain to those who do not know that during WWII the British opperated BST (in winter) and DBST (in summer), otherwise people may think that it is odd (or inaccurate) to use BST instead of GMT for an operation taking place in November. -- PBS ( talk) 17:25, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
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As a rather belated note, I'm currently developing a new version of this article at User:Nick-D/Drafts12. I expect to post it here later today, or within the next week. Comments and changes are most welcome both while it is in draft stage and, of course, after it is posted here. Apologies for the late notification. Nick-D ( talk) 22:54, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
The article says Tirpitz fired on the bombers with her massive 15-inch main guns. On the face of it, this seems like a pointless thing to do - compared to a dedicated AA gun, the main guns turn and fire very slowly, are directed by the wrong kind of system (a gun laying "computer", rather than a radar system) and fire AP rounds with contact fuses, rather than fragmenting rounds with proximity fuses. They surely couldn't expect to ever hit a plane with that. Were the guns loaded with some kind of canister round? Were they just trying to add smoke to obscure themselves? It doesn't seem likely that a trained professional crew like Tirpitz would just fire just on the off chance of some one-in-a-million hit - so what was their intention? -- Finlay McWalter··–· Talk 12:36, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
i remember very vividly that there was an enourmous crater shot at ground level near the Tirpitz sunk. I can't find it, you ever seen it? Was it actually removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.11.3.98 ( talk) 16:28, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
I think a footnote linked to British Summer Time#Periods of deviation is needed to explain to those who do not know that during WWII the British opperated BST (in winter) and DBST (in summer), otherwise people may think that it is odd (or inaccurate) to use BST instead of GMT for an operation taking place in November. -- PBS ( talk) 17:25, 10 February 2020 (UTC)