Just make sure the enemy can’t drive a truck bomb into your marine barracks in retaliation.
From: Cameron Crum Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2016 10:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [ot] battleship engineering 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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> 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. --
