I think that's the length of the shell...
Kenneth Waller wrote:
> I would have thought an 18" naval gun would be longer than 7'!
> ;-)
>
> Kenneth Waller
>
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> From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: combat photography
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>> 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
>>>
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