Talk:Zara/@comment-26410405-20160210162633/@comment-27396171-20160214013328

Wartime 8 inch guns of all nations fired at basically the same rate of 3-4 RPM. Fire rates of 5 could only be achieved in the most idealized drill conditions. Fire rates of 6 didn't exist outside of the sheet of paper they were written on, presumably, for political reasons.