T3 wrote:

"Guy Alcala" wrote in message
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Jeroen Wenting wrote:

Admittedly, you are no expert. Neither am I, but the question I have
is:

How often is the gun used to strafe ground targets in the first
place?
If
the gun isn't used much, there isn't much point to wasting the
space/weight,
is there?


The same sort of reasoning was applied to the lifeboats on the
Titanic......

which weren't much use as most people didn't get to them in time
anyway...

Which was a failure of organisation, not of the boats themselves. Except
for
the last couple of collapsible lifeboats all of Titanic's boats were
successfully launched in sufficient time, but owing to poor regulations
and the
lack of any lifeboat drill many were only partly full. IIRR they held
something
like 700 of the 1,100 or so they could have.

Guy

I little off topic but according to the History channel I watched last
night. The Captain ordered almost half the life boats removed the day of
sailing as " they looked appalling and were not needed", man, he knew what
he was talking about, huh?

If they actually made that claim, then (if it's possible) my opinion of the
accuracy of the 'History Channel' has sunk even lower than the great depth it
had already reached.

Guy