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I am highly dubious of the claim that the Japanese cruisers were given "112cm guns". That's a bore of over 44 inches diameter. The shells for such a monster would weigh far more than the weights quoted; we'd be talking thousands of kilograms, 10,000+ pounds. I'm no material scientist, but I'm pretty sure of that. And the articles on the cruisers all give the size as 32cm, just like the initially quoted gun. And there is a perfectly clear photo of the crew standing on the deck of one of the cruisers, with the gun directly to starboard, and it certainly looks much more like a 12"-class gun than a 44"-class guns. Although I wouldn't dare use such original research as proof of anything. Perhaps "112cm" is referring to the length of the projectiles, or something? If so, it really needs to me made clear in the text, because traditionally when one says "a (blank)-centimeter shell", the automatic assumption is that it refers to the size of the bore, not length of shell (in fact, I don't think I've ever seen the length of a shell specified anywhere, as it's only pertinent to ballistics. AnnaGoFast 20:25, 14 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
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