Lo Yangs wierd turret armour

[thewildgam3r]

Looking at my Yangs armour profile ingame I discovered that her X Turret (The elevated rear gun) has different armour to the other 3. It has 1mm of turret roof armour? The other turrets have 20mm roofs. This turret has the same armour at the front rear and sides but not the roof :/ Very strange

 

Also the Pan Asia tier 8 and 9 DDs have 3mm armour turrets even though they are supposed to be US DDs originally?

[NoirLotus]

It's the same thing on the Sims. Number 3 turret is not fully armored, the roof is a piece of cloth.

[22cm]

28 minutes ago, NoirLotus said:

It's the same thing on the Sims. Number 3 turret is not fully armored, the roof is a piece of cloth.

 

It s good enough against seagull gnats.

[thewildgam3r]

1 hour ago, NoirLotus said:

It's the same thing on the Sims. Number 3 turret is not fully armored, the roof is a piece of cloth.

 

That does explain the turrets differing appearance :) I see the Fletcher eliminated this from its design. I wonder why the US Navy did this to the Sims and Benson class DDs? I shall investigate ^^

 

 

Edit: I found it on another forum. The lower mounted guns had armoured roofs to protect against the higher guns muzzle flash. Using fabric also saved weight.

[NoirLotus]

Mainly for saving weight. Fletchers have wider hull and a much bigger displacement.

 

Sims & Benson are treaty designed DDs and so were limited to stay under 2000 tons displacement IIRC.

[lafeel]

6 minutes ago, jnadreth said:

 

That does explain the turrets differing appearance :) I see the Fletcher eliminated this from its design. I wonder why the US Navy did this to the Sims and Benson class DDs? I shall investigate ^^

Saves on topweight, something that's rather important on any ship, especially one as (relatively) small as a destroyer.

[thewildgam3r]

Well that has cleared this all up for me :) Still the Pan Asian tier 8 and 9 having 3mm armour is a puzzle...but thats for another thread :) Thanks peeps

[lafeel]

1 minute ago, jnadreth said:

Well that has cleared this all up for me :) Still the Pan Asian tier 8 and 9 having 3mm armour is a puzzle...but thats for another thread :) Thanks peeps

Actually I can partly resolve that puzzle for you right here and right now, if you're referring to their turret armor: The tier 8 is a Benson by a another name.

[philjd]

11 minutes ago, lafeel said:

Saves on topweight, something that's rather important on any ship, especially one as (relatively) small as a destroyer.

 

Which is why the first 20 Hunt class DE's had to have their X turret removed, as a design error made the completed ship dangerously unstable.

(I have read that the first time they tried to mount the X turret that the ship heeled over.... red faces all around).

[lafeel]

Just now, philjd said:

 

Which is why the first 20 Hunt class DE's had to have their X turret removed, as a design error made the completed ship dangerously unstable.

(I have read that the first time they tried to mount the X turret that the ship heeled over.... red faces all around).

Simply put they tried to squeeze the entire armament of a Black Swan onto a hull barely 2/3rds the displacement.

 

And with more powerfull machinery too.

 

Tbh, they should have known that was not going to work before hand, and fired whatever idiot that did both sets of calculations. Usually you had one person doing the calculations for topweight and stuff, then someone else double checking them by doing them again, in this case this apparently did not happen, and instead the first person copied himself (source: British DD's and Frigates, WW2 and after by Norman Friedman)