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Why?The USN was especially concerned with long-range gunnery; going back to the sort of secondaries abandoned before WWI would be a retrograde step. Read the history of naval gunfire control to see why.The USN's other concern was air defense, at which the 5" was just about infinitely better than the 8" could be.
Why?
The USN was especially concerned with long-range gunnery; going back to the sort of secondaries abandoned before WWI would be a retrograde step. Read the history of naval gunfire control to see why.
The USN's other concern was air defense, at which the 5" was just about infinitely better than the 8" could be.