A joke about Howe firing its main battery at aircraft leads to a historical example involving Nelson. Radar information could be supplied to the Admiralty Fire Control Table to permit anti-aircraft fire with the 16-inch guns. That example supports the possibility of an improvised heavy-gun air-defence role in the Red Fleet scenario. Such use remains outside the hypothetical ship's official design and normal employment.
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Nelson's heavy guns and radar-assisted anti-aircraft fire
A Nelson example connects radar data and an existing fire-control table with an unconventional anti-aircraft use of battleship main guns.