I'm all for precision guided munitions, but nothing says we've come to kick some ass like shelling an enemy position with the 16in guns from a battleship. Talk about demoralizing the enemy.
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> wrote: > Systems like that don't exist so much... At least, there are no guns of > that size on a battleship that I'm aware of (16"). > > I know there are much smaller systems now for certain classes of warships. > When I was going through my joint fires naval training we talked about a > bunch of systems (that are now public knowledge). One of the newer naval > guns has a 40+ nautical mile range and GPS guided round - similar to the > Excalibur artillery round. Those are mostly automated systems. > > If I remember right, a full battery salvo from an Iowa class battleship on > a surface target could spread out the round impact locations to create a > 1Km x 1Km "casualty box". I always wanted the opportunity to employ that > system :P > On Apr 3, 2016 10:23 AM, "David Milholen" <dmilho...@wletc.com> wrote: > >> What an AWEsome piece of history. >> I wonder how many of those systems are completely automated and how much >> faster reload time is ? >> >> >> On 4/3/2016 1:59 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote: >> >> https://youtu.be/_wT1xkRpCKk >> >> I love this stuff. >> >> >> -- >> >
