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That does'nt change the fact, though, that the heavy frigates are laying down fire on the corvettes in an offensive manner. Suicidal as it is, frigates, have at least shown the capability to use their guns to lay down suppresive fire in this particular role. If this tactic were to be used against heavier capital ships is most unlikely, though. --[[User talk:UNSCSILVERSTREAK|UNSCSILVERSTREAK]] 00:32, 1 May 2011 (EDT)

:I'd say it just lends support to the arguments near the top that the mounts we can see aren't anything like 50mm. In fact using rough scaling from the frigates stated length you get a rather close match for 400ish mm battleship caliber weapons. Given the scale in relation to the vessel the weapons being medium caliber (compared to a MAC) "Dual purpose" mounts makes the most sense to me. We know Deck guns/mid sized EM weapons exist and they appear to be showing up more and more with each passing game. The much smaller true "PD" mounts could simply be concealed behind armored doors or the like. Speculation though, but I don't buy for a second that the large mounts being used against ships in the game are 50mm. [[Special:Contributions/174.98.251.42|174.98.251.42]] 06:26, 16 September 2013 (EDT)

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	That does'nt change the fact, though, that the heavy frigates are laying down fire on the corvettes in an offensive manner. Suicidal as it is, frigates, have at least shown the capability to use their guns to lay down suppresive fire in this particular role. If this tactic were to be used against heavier capital ships is most unlikely, though. --[[User talk:UNSCSILVERSTREAK\|UNSCSILVERSTREAK]] 00:32, 1 May 2011 (EDT)		That does'nt change the fact, though, that the heavy frigates are laying down fire on the corvettes in an offensive manner. Suicidal as it is, frigates, have at least shown the capability to use their guns to lay down suppresive fire in this particular role. If this tactic were to be used against heavier capital ships is most unlikely, though. --[[User talk:UNSCSILVERSTREAK\|UNSCSILVERSTREAK]] 00:32, 1 May 2011 (EDT)
			:I'd say it just lends support to the arguments near the top that the mounts we can see aren't anything like 50mm. In fact using rough scaling from the frigates stated length you get a rather close match for 400ish mm battleship caliber weapons. Given the scale in relation to the vessel the weapons being medium caliber (compared to a MAC) "Dual purpose" mounts makes the most sense to me. We know Deck guns/mid sized EM weapons exist and they appear to be showing up more and more with each passing game. The much smaller true "PD" mounts could simply be concealed behind armored doors or the like. Speculation though, but I don't buy for a second that the large mounts being used against ships in the game are 50mm. [[Special:Contributions/174.98.251.42\|174.98.251.42]] 06:26, 16 September 2013 (EDT)