16 Inch Gun Training Film

An early training film on loading and firing the Iowa Class 16" guns.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Iowa
• class
• 16
• inch
• guns

[redougulas]

its better to give than to recieve

[trent8002003]

@Contrajoe Not quite. The gunhouses and the barbettes are armored yes. But the radar, the sighting tops, the communication lines, the rangefinders are all UNarmored. Even the armored gunhouses could suffer terrible concussions from non-penetrating hits resulting in training and elevating mechanisms being knocked out. Carrier operations are much simpler. Each plane is an individual entity. As long as the flight deck remains in operation, all surviving planes could still function.

[DrKarot7760]

some parts are cut off

[steamingpoopfart]

@PenzancePete The iowas have 18" of reinforced armored steel plating, modern ships have less then 2".

[PenzancePete]

Am I understanding that there are idiots out there who consider the battleship a worthwhile weapon. All those sailors crewing it, hundreds of millions in build budget and running costs. Two $1,000,000 missiles and that's your battleship fcuked.

[FRA66ER6]

Great movie!

[hebneh]

LOTS of moving parts here which could - and probably did, regularly - crush hands, arms, feet, legs, etc. Especially in the midst of hours-long battles as men got exhausted and faint in the below-deck heat.

[HellzNord]

this seems like a major pain in the ass lol

[TSR1989FF]

@Contrajoe Well to me it's only a matter of time till a suitable Alloy or Rail Cooling Method is found.

After all when the Electric Toaster & the Jet Engine were Invented they each had the very same problem, but time & experimentation prevailed in both cases.

With Plasma Powered Cannons however there isn't any particular Disadvantage when used in a Naval Application, in fact if anything it's an Ideal use of the Technology as it plays to it's inherent strengths.

The Future?, i'm certain of it.

[Contrajoe]

@jers59 There are still steel mills in the U.S. This has nothing to do with Roman legions, dude. BB's were powerful in Desert Storm. They still would be today. I don't know why you must so passionately oppose them.

[Contrajoe]

@TSR1989FF Well, if you can make a rail gun that doesn't melt itself, I'm all for it.

[TSR1989FF]

@jers59 Still Aspousing Nonsense i see then (as usual ; )

As they say "Demand spurs Development & Innovation"

Amusing to see you now putting your own Country down (usually it was everyone else's whom you insult & deride), i guess even you must be coming to realize how much the US depends apon the Old World these days (& they don't come much older than good old China ; )

There will always be Demand for Gunfire Support, denying that only proves how little you really know (about anything).