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16 inch gun training of an Iowa class Battleship

submitted by lv_hunter

9 years 7 months 1 week ago

Navy training video from 1955 for the big 16" guns of the Iowa class Battleship!

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Where's the Wave Motion G... oops, sorry, wrong navy.

Holy cow, the breach on that gun is enormous. Pictures of the barrel just don't do justice to how large those things were.

Interesting. I just reread info about the 1989 explosion in turret 2 of the battleship Iowa that killed 47 sailors. Looks like it was due to over-ramming unstable powder as part of an unauthorized 'experiment' using 5 bags of the wrong powder instead of the standard 6. Of course, the Navy covered all this up and blamed a sailor for killing everyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion

I like big guns and I cannot lie.

Amazing. And the original fire controls computers were electromechanical, to my recollection---and to some, even more amazing.

The Mk I that I think was part of these systems weighed over 3000 lbs...and had a maximum power draw of 140 amps and 15,000 watts lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_I_Fire_Control_Computer

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