On a related matter - One of my brothers was stationed on the battleship Iowa for several years. The Iowa had 3 turrets of 16" guns. The projectile fired weights approximately the same as a VW bug. Around 2000# IIRC.
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:24 PM Subject: Re: combat photography >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 >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >> 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
