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Old Man with a Hat
yup, your right.Yep, no need to update a 16" gun. It'll update whatever it hits.......or is near it.
yup, your right.Yep, no need to update a 16" gun. It'll update whatever it hits.......or is near it.
Every hear of the AEGIS AN/SPY-1 system? Heavy tech aboard guided missile cruisers, only reason why I asked.
Yep that's why the tin cans hang out with battleship or carrier our only mission on the frigate I was on was to protect the center of the battle group i.e. carrier, battleship, marine carrier kind of like a castle though the moat over or through the wall, well in all reality I was on a ship that was where the moat is......LOL but true.
Yep, no need to update a 16" gun. It'll update whatever it hits.......or is near it.
That description always intrigued me. I guess they mean weight (2240 lbs.) as the round is only 16" in diameter and slightly less tall then my 73". We have a storage hold down on deck 4, on the Hornet, with 16" shells we picked up.Battery 9 rounds of 16" guns......that's like shooting 9 Volkswagon's through the air at the same time. The battleship pushes back 1,000 feet when it shoots a Battery 9. Now this is BADASS!!!!
That description always intrigued me. I guess they mean weight (2240 lbs.) as the round is only 16" in diameter and slightly less tall then my 73". We have a storage hold down on deck 4, on the Hornet, with 16" shells we picked up.
We had to offload, I don't know how many, shells underway passing them via helicopter to another ship staying in the area. Had a working party to carry them from the for'castle to the helo deck, those were about 75# maybe 30" long 5" rounds on a rocking and rolling deck and up a set of stairs. If you saw the movie battleship them heaving that shell is a joke. I remember seeing those 16" ers on the peir in the Philippines at the ordinance depot when we were doing something with our puny 5" rounds LOL. BTW Bob Thank You for your service while I was on a 5 yr cruise you guys were doing the dirty work pun intended
. People can't be alone with there own thoughts anymore....what would you do if it was quiet and you had nothing to distract yourself.....Umm I don't know..maybe look at the world around you, stop and listen to the beauty of silence, and maybe THINK!
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Forgive my ignorance, but how do friendlies get out of the way of a tactical nuke?? In my mind "tactical" means eye ball to eye ball right? So if someone lights off a nuke in the same area your troops occupy......well, explain please. Run like hell??Thanks for sharing.
Those 16" rounds are massive compared to the 8" rounds we shoot on land. However....we have 2 different nuke rounds we can fire. When President Reagan told Gorbachev that the U.S. would use tactical battlefield nukes in Europe he was specifically talking about our 8" Howitzers.
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Forgive my ignorance, but how do friendlies get out of the way of a tactical nuke?? In my mind "tactical" means eye ball to eye ball right? So if someone lights off a nuke in the same area your troops occupy......well, explain please. Run like hell??
Wow, that is impressive.BTW, there was never a shortage of Artillerymen to volunteer to crew the gun on the "Lone Gun Mission" if the mission ever got the call from HQ!!!
How/what made you get into the Military Bob, if you don't mind telling?I failed to mention that the picture of the nuke bullet is what goes down range. It takes 77 lbs of "white bag" powder to launch it.
Here's a short video that is worth watching......to me.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_56_Ap1Jks
BTW, there was never a shortage of Artillerymen to volunteer to crew the gun on the "Lone Gun Mission" if the mission ever got the call from HQ!!!
How/what made you get into the Military Bob, if you don't mind telling?