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Re: Стрельба из...

>Да полно случаев. И "Тирпиц" стрелял по самолётам главным калибром, и даже "Ямато". А уж крейсерам сам бог велел.


Но только иппонцы имели специальные снаряды ГК калибров 203-мм, 356-мм, 410-мм и 460-мм - Common Type 3 IS.
С сайта navweaps.com =
As were most Japanese warships, the Yamato and Musashi were provided with a special anti-aircraft incendiary shrapnel shell officially designated as "3 Shiki tsûjôdan" (Common Type 3) and supposedly nicknamed "The Beehive," but this could be apocryphal. This round weighed 2,998 lbs. (1,360 kg) and was filled with 900 incendiary-filled tubes. A time fuze was used to set the desired bursting distance, usually about 1,000 meters (1,100 yards) after leaving the muzzle. These projectiles were designed to expel the incendiary tubes in a 20 degree cone extending towards the oncoming aircraft with the projectile shell itself being destroyed by a bursting charge to increase the quantity of steel splinters. The incendiary tubes ignited about half a second later and burned for five seconds at 3,000 degrees C, producing a flame approximately 5 meters (16 feet) long.
The concept behind these shells was that the ship would put up a barrage pattern through which an attacking aircraft would have to fly. However, these shells were considered by US Navy pilots to be more of a visual spectacular than an effective AA weapon.
Но с другой стороны, японские ЛКР типа "Конго", применявшие эти снаряды для обстрела гуадалканальского аэродрома Гендерсон, добились просто выдающихся успехов. Дж.Ландстрём в своей "1st Team and The Guadalcana Campaign", 1994, описывает эту стрельбу так:

Taking cover in the handiest dugout, slit trench, or depression, those on the receiving end soon realized this was no caress by five-inchers, but something totally new, a brilliant display of deadly fireworks. No less than 150 men, many from VF-5, crowded into the Pagoda tunnel and the underground operations room. A veteran of the 67th FS later wrote:
"They had hardly hit the foxholes before the air was filled with a bedlam of sound: the screaming of shells, the dull roar of cannonading off shore, the whine of shrap¬nel, the thud of palm trees as they were severed and hit the ground, and in the lulls from the big noises, the ceaseless sifting of dirt into the foxhole."
Lou Kirn of VS-3 noted, "You feel so utterly helpless . . . feel, rather than hear, salvos being walked right over your position." Soon aviation gasoline supplies, aircraft, and ammunition dumps began exploding. Lieutenant Colonel Bayler later wrote of the "ghastly blaze of light." Elated Japanese observers described the Lunga airfield as a "sea of fire."