A sextuple turret is theoretically efficient because one trained mounting can deliver the broadside of an entire Renown-class battlecruiser. It can also divide the battery into three-gun salvos. Concentrating that firepower in one trained mounting reduces the number of separate aiming solutions. The attraction is real, yet metallurgy, ammunition supply, structure, and machinery turn that theoretical efficiency into an impractical contemporary system.
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The sextuple turret's elegant theory and harsh reality
One fire-control solution could command a six-gun broadside, but contemporary engineering could not make the mounting reliable.