I would have thought an 18" naval gun would be longer than 7'! ;-) Kenneth Waller
----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 7:32 PM Subject: Re: combat photography > 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 >> >> Ken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
