Who says you can't have accuracy AND power...?
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Who says you can't have accuracy AND power...?
1.3 MOA (50 ft or so at 44,000 yards) or so with lots of power...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stq3hnVq6jU
I can't imagine being near the breech of one of these guns when fired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stq3hnVq6jU
I can't imagine being near the breech of one of these guns when fired.
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Re: Who says you can't have accuracy AND power...?
6 bags at 110lbs each, that's 660lbs of powder OR 4,620,000 grains!
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Can you imagine the concussion that must have reverberated throughout those torrents when all three guns went off...????
I didn't see a lot of 'acoustic foam'... ....just tons and tons of smooth reflective metal there to vibrate, shake, and echo.
I didn't see a lot of 'acoustic foam'... ....just tons and tons of smooth reflective metal there to vibrate, shake, and echo.
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Re: Who says you can't have accuracy AND power...?
Yeah those gunners were the poster boys for "huh- what'da say?"
I heard about a guy that was on deck when the guns were firing and if memory serves his innards were turned to jello... don't know if true or not .
I heard about a guy that was on deck when the guns were firing and if memory serves his innards were turned to jello... don't know if true or not .
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Re: Who says you can't have accuracy AND power...?
Our Air Force is using obsolete B 52s on front line duty. I think it's time to recall the battle ships back to duty. At least then we could say we have a real Navy, not a fleet of hi-tec yachts.
Oh and if the New Jersey is decommissioned in a museum, why is there a rotating antenna on top of the conning tower? Something is still active on her.
JMNSHO
Joe
Oh and if the New Jersey is decommissioned in a museum, why is there a rotating antenna on top of the conning tower? Something is still active on her.
JMNSHO
Joe
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Re: Who says you can't have accuracy AND power...?
As an old M110(A2) 8" SP Howitzer Red Leg, we thought nothing of dropping 200lbs of HE into the bed of a pickup on the impact area from 10+klicks... as a ranging shot. The other 12 rounds following got to bracket the driver.
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Re: Who says you can't have accuracy AND power...?
Ah the old 110. I was with the USMC M53 155mm self propelled gun (in '64) and M55 8" self propelled howitzer (in '67); '65-67 was with a 105 battery in RVN. And from what I was told, the 14 Marine Regt. (Reserves) still had 8" towed back then!
Interesting You Tube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkbQ-qYzrY0 (Billy Mitchel versus the USN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epclkzKJvfc (Navy gun factory 1952)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcqulXiWbzc (USN gunfire and Okinawa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WMqGYBOn9A (USN gunfire and Iwo Jima)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXJIE50jxdw (USN 8"/55 rapid fire gun)
Interesting You Tube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkbQ-qYzrY0 (Billy Mitchel versus the USN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epclkzKJvfc (Navy gun factory 1952)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcqulXiWbzc (USN gunfire and Okinawa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WMqGYBOn9A (USN gunfire and Iwo Jima)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXJIE50jxdw (USN 8"/55 rapid fire gun)
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Re: Who says you can't have accuracy AND power...?
The Big Guns of the Iowa class battle-wagons were directed by analog (crank & lever) computers, and had to be fired while the ship was underway.. Troops on the ground often called for 15-meter fire correction, to be delivered as far as 23 miles from the ship. They got it, often as not...
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Re: Who says you can't have accuracy AND power...?
One of my ex-coworkers had been a red-leg on an 'Atomic Annie' crew...He didn't talk about it much as he said it was all top secret and he wasn't sure what was still classified. From what he did mention they moved it around more than they fired the thing!
Re: Who says you can't have accuracy AND power...?
Joe,J Miller wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2017 5:14 am Our Air Force is using obsolete B 52s on front line duty. I think it's time to recall the battle ships back to duty. At least then we could say we have a real Navy, not a fleet of hi-tec yachts.
Oh and if the New Jersey is decommissioned in a museum, why is there a rotating antenna on top of the conning tower? Something is still active on her.
JMNSHO
Joe
The B-52 is not obsolete. To be obsolete it would need to have a successor that can do it's jobs as well or preferably better. The B-52 has performed every task given it, for high altitude strategic bombing to low level cruise missile launching to even low or high level close air support. It can launch all of the current and near future "smart" weapons.
The new B-1's (we really should have built the B-70 instead) and even the B-2's can't do what the B-52 does. Those newer bombers are limited in payload capacity among other things. While they may be faster or stealthier, once control of the enemy airspace is obtained nothing can punish the enemy like a full load of good old fashioned dumb iron bombs.
I will freely admit that my two favorite fighters, P-40 and F-4, are obsolete. And even the C-141 and C-5 (but not the C-130) have been well replaced by the C-17. But when it comes to putting massive amounts of ordinance on target nothing in our arsenal comes even close t the B-52.
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