The battle begins with Red firing a salvo of missiles at Blue. "Dace" sank "Maya" with a salvo of four torpedoes. A second missile in this same salvo struck and sank an Egyptian merchant ship. All the missiles can be fired in a single salvo. A typical MLRS cluster salvo consisted of three M270 vehicles each firing all 12 rockets. One Buratino thermobaric rocket launcher "can obliterate a roughly area with a single salvo". A full salvo can be fired within 20 seconds. Moosally ordered Turret Two to load and fire a three-gun salvo. The first two shells struck simultaneously at 16&colon;59 in the third salvo. She scored a hit on "Wiesbaden" aft with her third salvo. A "Gneisenau" salvo subsequently hit the bridge. Shells from her second salvo struck the bridge and killed her commander, Edward Fegen VC. All eight shots of the first salvo registering hits. The second salvo hit and the wireless room was destroyed. The German cruiser opened fire first, and straddled the Australian vessel with her third salvo.