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Offline SFRT - Frenchy

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Main Battery, beehive shells ... Fire!
« on: February 27, 2017, 01:40:10 AM »
Dat jugs bro.

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Re: Main Battery, beehive shells ... Fire!
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2017, 03:45:56 AM »
 :bhead That was just painful to watch.
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Re: Main Battery, beehive shells ... Fire!
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2017, 06:09:55 AM »
"Sankaidan" 3 shiki tsujodan. 2,998 lbs, loaded with 900 metal tubes containing incendiary mixture, and bursting charge.

All Japanese 14in 16in, and 18in battleship guns had them. They were unreliable and ineffective. Musashi fired them in the battle of Sibuyan Sea, one exploded inside the gun and disabled it.