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 | | Suffice to say that under normal combat conditions, a 16"/50 wouldn't have been able to penetrate the plate, but at point-blank range, and zero-obliquity, they were able to power a shell through it. |
 | | Mutsu's are, obviously, 16" weapons (41cm), not 46cm, and there is a 41cm shell on display at the base of Mutsu's turret (see http://www.combinedfleet.com/b_keep.htm for a picture of me standing next to it, with Mutsu's barrels in the background). |
 | | On the Mutsu, I have the Monograph Morskie volume (in Polish!) on the Nagato class, which has nice photos plus two huge poster-size sets of drawings (mostly in 1/400 scale) on both the Nagato and Mutsu throughout their careers. |
| www.j-aircraft.com /faq/misc_navy_and_ships.htm (12769 words) |
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