> > From: "K.Takeshita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/02/06 Tue AM 12:52:31 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: combat photography > > 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...
Just to drag this termially off topic, deep sea wrecks are now a major source of metals uncontaminated by radioactive isotopes. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
