My dream fire mission was MLRS :) On Apr 3, 2016 10:23 PM, "Cameron Crum" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >> >
