The result was the design for the first South Carolina-class battleship (commissioned in 1910). In 1908, United States Navy tests using the monitor USS Florida (BM-9) as the testbed proved that superfiring was safe. Īn early concern was that the pressure and shock from the higher turret would damage the lower one when firing over the top. Line drawing of a South Carolina-class battleship, showing superfiring main armament. In firing ahead or to the rear, usually only the forward-most or rearmost turret could fire, especially at low angles. In early designs, the large-caliber turrets were all located on the same plane firing to one side or the other. Part of the technical evolution was driven by the need to compress as much large-gun firepower into the smallest space possible. The era of technical evolution occurred roughly from 1900 to 1945. The history of large surface warships follow generic labels as battleships, and a further distinction between pre-dreadnoughts and dreadnoughts. This configuration meant that both forward or aft turrets could fire at any target within their sector, even when the target was in the same vertical plane as the turrets. Superfiring armament is a naval military building technique in which two (or more) turrets are located in a line, one behind the other, with the second turret located above ("super") the one in front so that the second turret can fire over the first. They are "superfiring" because one has been mounted over the other, and can shoot over its top. The two bow gun turrets on one of the first superfiring battleships, the Brazilian Minas Geraes.
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