On 2/05/07 7:32 PM, "P. J. Alling", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You'd have thought 16" would have been big enough... > > K.Takeshita wrote: >> On 2/05/07 6:03 PM, "K.Takeshita", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> This is getting silly, but didn't I give you a salvo of 18 inch naval guns? >>> That should do, period :-). >>> >> >> Just to satisfy the curiosity of some, and for the heck of it, this is a pic >> of 18 inch cannon whose length is over 7 feet, reaching 42Km target with >> 330Kg powder charge. Guns were installed on the world's largest battleship >> Yamato. >> >> http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~yamato/yamato.htm >> But she had 18" (46cm), and never fired in anger against other ships. One barrel alone weighed 165 tons of special steel. So many of them sunk and the sea bottom must now be the best mine for refined steel :-). Oh, well... Ken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
