Talk:Richelieu/@comment-30534142-20170811180559/@comment-1637496-20170812080214

@Vcharng: the barrels in each half turret were too close one to the other, her dispersion was even worse than Littorio, reaching over 1,000m at 25km sometimes. The issue was discovered when she carried out coastal bombardment together with the British, but it was only solved postwar in 1948 with the installation of a fire delayer.

The issue is described in Jordan and Dumas' book (French Battleships 1922-1956) and it's very briefly mentioned in the post-war section of the wiki page.