British gun experiments and the lessons drawn from German weapons

British designers examined German guns after the war and combined those findings with their own construction methods. Lessons drawn too quickly from early tests led to mistakes in the combination of design approaches, including choices involving light shells. Further testing exposed problems after production was already well advanced. The resulting 16-inch weapons had shortcomings without being wholly ineffective. Earlier British work had pursued larger versions of Greenboy shells for 16.5-inch and potentially 18-inch guns, offering another possible direction for continued development.