http://www.guns.com/2016/10/03/army-looking-to-scrap-15000-16-inch-shells/
What in heck is the army doing with 16" shells?
^LOL ;D ;D ;D Great answer, SDR!
I say we give them all to Kim Il Jung. In salvos of 9. :-X
Delivery could be a problem unless we drop them out of helicopters or something. The Iowas are decommissioned and full of tourists. Hmmm... we may have the makings of a business opportunity here:
"On your next cruise, why settle for just sun and trinkets or the spouting of friendly whales when you can hear the roar of 16 inch guns ripple-firing? Who needs an indoor rock climbing wall when you can take your turn manning a 20mm AA gun! Bring the whole family!"
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 05, 2016, 05:40:50 AM
Delivery could be a problem unless we drop them out of helicopters or something. The Iowas are decommissioned and full of tourists. Hmmm... we may have the makings of a business opportunity here:
"On your next cruise, why settle for just sun and trinkets or the spouting of friendly whales when you can hear the roar of 16 inch guns ripple-firing? Who needs an indoor rock climbing wall when you can take your turn manning a 20mm AA gun! Bring the whole family!"
Where do I sign up! :D
I'd go on that cruise, and I don't even like to travel.
Years ago, I did some frequent consulting work at Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center in southern Indiana. Aside from the obvious question as to what the Navy was doing with a Surface Warfare Center in Indiana, one of the most interesting things I saw every time I drove through on my way to the work site was stacks - probably 10 to 15 feet high - of 8" cruiser gun barrels sitting on a railroad siding. There were certainly dozens of them there. I later learned that some of them had been used to develop the early GBU-28s for Desert Storm.
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 04, 2016, 10:23:39 PM
I say we give them all to Kim Il Jung. In salvos of 9. :-X
My grandfather was a Gunners Mate 2nd class on the New Jersey.
Just sayin'. O0