Re: USA Today: Columbia disaster stranded three men in space with 'no return ticket'

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:18:46 -0500, Mary Pegg wrote
(in article <Wh_Nh.19498$7l1.4926@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):


Pat Flannery wrote:

Speaking of old IJN battleships, they kept rebuilding the Fuso and
Yamashiro to the point where they ended up with these absurdly tall
superstructures:

Why "absurd"? The higher up you are, the more you can see.

IANANavalHistorian.

Negative considerations right off the top of my head:

- If the pagoda masts are too lightly armored, they're very easily damaged in
battle;
- If heavily armored enough they raise the center of gravity (and axis of
roll), negatively impacting gun accuracy and increasing risk of capsizing
when the hull floods asymmetrically;
- They make the ship more easily seen and identified visually an on radar;

I'm sure they're others but my already-short attention span is being dragged
elsewhere at the moment.

--
You can run on for a long time,
Sooner or later, God'll cut you down.
~Johnny Cash

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