Broadside weight alone does not show how much kinetic and explosive energy reaches a target over time. Matt Warwick's table uses a ten-minute engagement at 20,000 yards, a five-percent hit rate, and one round per gun per minute as a common baseline. That controlled comparison makes it possible to test why ships with similar broadside weights can deliver very different effects. It also keeps claims about a battleship's firepower tied to explicit range, rate-of-fire, and hit assumptions rather than simply counting guns.
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Comparing gunnery through energy, range, and hit rate
A proposed comparison method combines kinetic and explosive energy with range, rate of fire, and realistic hit assumptions.