Talk:5inch Single Gun Mount Mk.30/@comment-175.156.13.185-20180422161421/@comment-32884696-20180424142626

It's not the gun (which was rather good in combination with US fire control systems, but unexceptional), it's the VT shells that were universally recognised as improving AA barrage efficiency several times over. You could shoot them out of a potato cannon and they would still do harm.