The artillery weight carried by four Force K ships

The four-ship force's 6-inch and 4-inch batteries are compared with a divisional artillery group, including the scale of a British armoured division's artillery in North Africa. The spoken calculation settles on twenty-four 4-inch guns but gives conflicting totals of twelve and sixteen 6-inch guns. The main comparison places naval ranges in an artillery context, beyond the shorter distances commonly associated with tank fighting. Naval fire control must put that fire onto a moving target from a moving ship on a moving sea.