The Japanese concentration on Knyaz Suvorov wounded Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky and continued a campaign in which command personnel repeatedly became decisive targets. Russo-Japanese War gunnery was unusually personal because battle ranges still allowed fleets to identify flagships and direct fire against their bridges. Heavy conning-tower protection partly answered that vulnerability, although commanders did not always fight from inside it. Longer engagement ranges later made a flagship somewhat easier to conceal visually. Expanding radio communications then created a new way to locate command ships through their transmissions, making concealment difficult again.
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Command targeting from conning towers to radio
Tsushima's attacks on senior commanders connect close-range gunnery, armored conning towers, flagship identification, and the later problem of radio direction finding.