Today I learned on Nostr: TIL the longest range gunnery hit in naval combat is 26,000 yards, shared between HMS ...

TIL the longest range gunnery hit in naval combat is 26,000 yards, shared between HMS Warspite against Giulio Cesare in July 1940 and Scharnhorst against HMS Glorious a month before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(03)#Mediterranean_(1940%E2%80%931941)
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