BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Gunnair Gunnair:
Sure. You could bump it up to a 76 mm, but frankly, missile threat is bigger than a gun battle and I'd rather have a 57 mm for that.
Why? Rate of fire?
Yep. 220 rounds per minute. Sweet barrage. Mind, 220 rounds per minute ain't a bad way to pepper a major surface combatant if you had to anyway. Really, all you need to do is damage weapon systems and the battle is essentially won. Knock out a fire control radar and the guns/missiles become less accurate or useless. Knock out the gun, and unless it has SSMs, the show is over.
Except that they've never been able to sustain a rate of fire that high.
CKA Uber 
