The Vickers 14-inch gun and treaty politics

How good was the Vickers 14-inch naval gun?

It was serviceable but not outstanding; its appeal depended heavily on political value and the ability to use a quadruple mounting rather than major ballistic progress.

The discussion gives the gun's broad performance, including a rate near two rounds per minute and a maximum range around thirty-five kilometres. It was serviceable, but represented less ballistic progress than its new mountings might suggest. Its political value exceeded its technical novelty. Its chief ship-design advantage was the ability to place four guns in a single turret. The discussion suggests that, given more time before war, the King George V hulls might even have been rearmed with triple and twin 16-inch mountings using the existing turret-ring spaces.