15.2cm Single Gun Mount

[Edit] 15.2cm Single Gun Mount No.11 15.2cm単装砲
Secondary Gun Effects: +2 +1 Medium Scrap value: 2 2 (Buildable)
Refittable Ship Types
Fast Battleship	Battleship
Aviation Battleship	Standard Aircraft Carrier
Armored Carrier	Light Carrier
Heavy Cruiser	Aviation Cruiser
Light Cruiser	Torpedo Cruiser
Training Cruiser	Destroyer
Coastal Defense Ship	Submarine
Aircraft Carrying Submarine	Seaplane Tender
Fleet Oiler	Submarine Tender
Repair Ship	Amphibious Assault Ship

Introduction

英国開発のものを国産化、「金剛」型戦艦や「扶桑」型戦艦の副砲として搭載されました。
「伊勢」型戦艦以降は改良軽量型14cm砲が搭載されるようになりました。
対空射撃は不可能で、後に近代化改修に伴い、対空火器増設や軽量化のため、表舞台から去っていきました。

Knocking down British-made gun, this weapon was utilized as secondary guns on the Kongo-class and the Fuso-class.
After the Ise-class the renewed, lightened variant of 14cm caliber was adopted.
Anti-air firing was impossible; during later modernizations, these guns either gave their way to anti-air weapons or were taken down for weight reduction.

Notes

How To Obtain

Buildable

Stock equipment of Fusou, Haruna, Hiei, Kirishima, Kongou, Yamashiro

Uses

Used to improve 15.2cm Single Gun Mount, Bofors 15.2cm Twin Gun Mount Model 1930

Used by quests: F44

Updates History

• 2013-04-23: Implemented with initial game release
• 2014-10-24: Stats increased: +1 → +2
• 2015-05-18: Became improvable and upgradeable to 15.2cm Twin Gun Mount, Hidden Fit Bonuses added
• 2017-12-11: Hidden Fit Bonuses increased

Akashi's Improvement Arsenal

Type	Name	★	Resource							Day							2nd Ship	Note
										Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	15.2cm Naval Gun	0	10	60	90	0	2/2	1/2	-	K A	K A Y	A Y	Y	X	X	K	Kongou Agano Yamashiro	Upgrades to 15.2cm Twin Gun Mount.
		6					2/3	2/3	1x
		10					3/4	3/5	2x

Trivia

The 15.2cm guns were originally designed by Vickers as secondary weapons for the battlecruiser Kongo, which was built in Britain by Vickers-Armstrong (Barrow). The Japanese version was designed by Engineer Hata Chiyokichi and adopted in 1908. In the Japanese Navy, Vickers-built guns were designated as Mark II while those built in Japan were designated as Mark III. The design itself was outstanding at its time, but 15.2cm shell proved too heavy for Japanese sailors and had inferior firing rate (circa 6rpm), thus the lighter variant of 14cm caliber was later designed in-house.

When the 'Kongo-class was modernized in the 1930s, these guns were removed and reused on the Agano-class light cruisers in new twin mountings. There are also some coastal defense batteries at Guam were also equipped with these weapons.

This type of gun comes in a casemate mounting and would be mounted in an armored room along the side of the ship known as a casemate. Casemates too close to the waterline or too close to the bow of the ship were prone to flooding thus making the gun ineffective.

See Also

15 cm/50 41st Year Type