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|comment=Battleships are not hydrodynamic underwater. Real-life battleships that sunk would disintegrate, turning over so that their gun turrets popped out, their superstructure came apart, and their bulkheads imploded from collapsing air pockets. But I can forgive ''Evangelion'' for not paying attention to any of that if the results are cool enough.}} | |comment=Battleships are not hydrodynamic underwater. Real-life battleships that sunk would disintegrate, turning over so that their gun turrets popped out, their superstructure came apart, and their bulkheads imploded from collapsing air pockets. But I can forgive ''Evangelion'' for not paying attention to any of that if the results are cool enough.}} | ||
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|comment= | |comment=Actually, the upright issue aside, I don't think any of that is a given. Not in the time frame the episode presents anyway. When it comes to the turrets the Iowa-class had clips which could have kept the turrets inside their rings. There are cases of older American battleships designs having done so [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJfGJPLDwAI&ab_channel=kaviski1#t=38m22 at Pearl Harbor]. | ||
{{FGC:Comment|name= | Now would they have fired? Most likely not. Even if they had, the velocity would have been so low I think we would have been waiting for the proximity fuses to go off.}} | ||
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|comment= Proximity(VT) fuses don't operate underwater and were never used with USN battleship main battery weapons. Maybe the Iowas in NGE use Russian-style [https://web.archive.org/web/20041025183045/http://world.guns.ru/assault/as69-e.htm supercavitating underwater ammo], Type 91 [https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2016/07/01/japans-diving-shells-in-the-battle-of-cape-esperance/ diving shell style]? But the point about [https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-turrets-on-battleships-always-come-off-when-they-sink/answer/Mike-Irwin-32 turret clips is an interesting one].}} | |||
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