Talk:46cm Triple Gun Mount Kai/@comment-30198299-20180128014431/@comment-26082284-20180131200012

To make things clear here: I'm talking about people manning those triple 25mm AA guns placed atop of turrets 2 and 3 and observing proper health and safety protocol (taking cover, wearing hearing protection), not some poor sod standing on the wrong side of muzzle during the blast. I know that they weren't supposed to be there when firing main guns, but even if they were, I'd say that they would survive, though would be deply shaken, maybe would barf their breakfast and their hearing would be damaged, eventually permanently.

They would be at least twenty-something meters down the safer side of blast and behind cover - so most effects of blast and flash wouldn't affect them directly. While massive shockwave would affect them, despite it's sheer volume it's not particularly sharp - working pressure and muzzle velocity of 46cm gun are comparable to guns of other calibers. Overpressure from firing main guns don't kill crew of battleships. It's just remains of a lot of cordite burning, not some kind of thermobaric warhead setting off. But it is helluva loud and any noise of such magnitude will eventually cause permanent hearing damage.