Spectacular Photos Of The US Navy's Most Powerful Battleship Ever -- Sploid/Gizmodo
This is the USS Iowa, the first of the largest, most powerful battleship class ever in the United States Navy, equipped with nine 16-inch (406mm) guns that could fire nuclear shells—the only American ship in history with this capability. This photo series is old but still stunning.
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My Comment: The above video is cool to watch. From YouTube .... This World War II era training film shows the function and operation of the large main guns on a US battleship. Really fascinating!
A lot of manpower!
ReplyDeleteWhat frigtens me is that the video mentioned that in the case of a fire, each department is isolated from the others.
Sounds like once you go in, and in the event of an emergency, you won't be coming out...
"Sounds like once you go in, and in the event of an emergency, you won't be coming out..." There's a lot of that in the naval services, Plowman. In the army we used to bitch about how easy those guys had it (no mud, no digging, and ice cream!) but it's true, if they get into a big one and get hit there's usually few survivors.
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