Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Proposed automatic loading and actual gun development

Features that might accommodate automatic loading do not establish that the relevant loading system was being developed.

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Question

Could German turret and breech designs be adapted to automatic or semi-automatic loading?

Short answer

The proposed adaptation can be explored, but those loading systems were not being pursued in the cited historical studies.

Notes

Sliding breeches and loose liners are proposed as features that could accommodate automatic or semi-automatic loading. The objection concerns what was actually under development: the cited studies were not pursuing those loading systems. A possible adaptation therefore cannot be counted as an existing feature of the German capital-ship designs.