History Channel Dogfights - Kamikazes (Season 2 Premiere)

"David E. Powell" wrote in message
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Really well done.... worth checking out. From the look at the battle
of the USS Laffey (And US air cover of the day, tactics, the ship
herself, etc.) to the stuff on the Okha program to the look at a
German ramming squadron in the last days of the war in Europe, really
well done stuff.


I was stunned the Laffey took all those hits and kept floating.
What was it, four kamikazi and three bomb hits?
And I didn't know they already had radar guided 5 inch
guns

"Jonathan" wrote in message
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"David E. Powell" wrote in message
oups.com...
Really well done.... worth checking out. From the look at the battle
of the USS Laffey (And US air cover of the day, tactics, the ship
herself, etc.) to the stuff on the Okha program to the look at a
German ramming squadron in the last days of the war in Europe, really
well done stuff.


I was stunned the Laffey took all those hits and kept floating.
What was it, four kamikazi and three bomb hits?
And I didn't know they already had radar guided 5 inch
guns

Even better, she's STILL floating!

http://www.patriotspoint.org/exhibits/fleet/laffey.html

It's a little spooky to stand on the same deck where all that happened.

Bob McKellar

On Jul 16, 11:08?pm, "Jonathan" wrote:
"David E. Powell" wrote in ooglegroups.com...

Really well done.... worth checking out. From the look at the battle
of the USS Laffey (And US air cover of the day, tactics, the ship
herself, etc.) to the stuff on the Okha program to the look at a
German ramming squadron in the last days of the war in Europe, really
well done stuff.

I was stunned the Laffey took all those hits and kept floating.
What was it, four kamikazi and three bomb hits?
And I didn't know they already had radar guided 5 inch
guns'

Seems like Hornet had radar guided guns in 1942.

Walt

In article . com,
Walt wrote:
On Jul 16, 11:08?pm, "Jonathan" wrote:
"David E. Powell" wrote in
messagenews:1184617727.343322.110040@o61g2000hsh. googlegroups.com...

Really well done.... worth checking out. From the look at the battle
of the USS Laffey (And US air cover of the day, tactics, the ship
herself, etc.) to the stuff on the Okha program to the look at a
German ramming squadron in the last days of the war in Europe, really
well done stuff.

I was stunned the Laffey took all those hits and kept floating.
What was it, four kamikazi and three bomb hits?
And I didn't know they already had radar guided 5 inch
guns'

Seems like Hornet had radar guided guns in 1942.

From memory (not got "Radar at Sea" to hand) the first ship with radar
direction for AA fire was one of the RN 'C' class conversions to an AA
cruiser, some time in autumn 1940. By 1941 the sets were going into
Sloops.

--
Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:08:05 -0400, "Jonathan"
wrote:

And I didn't know they already had radar guided 5 inch
guns

I don't quite see how guns could even be guided: maybe aimed with the
aid of a director that used radar. They did have fire control radars
for five inch guns during WWII. Radar was just coming into use in the
late thirtys but progress was rapid.

Casady

Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:08:05 -0400, "Jonathan"
wrote:

And I didn't know they already had radar guided 5 inch
guns

I don't quite see how guns could even be guided: maybe aimed with the
aid of a director that used radar. They did have fire control radars
for five inch guns during WWII. Radar was just coming into use in the
late thirtys but progress was rapid.


I suspect that they were referring to two things in their rather
misguided description:

1. Radar fire control for aiming the 5" guns
2. Radar-based proximity fuses in the 5" shells

--
Nik Simpson