#RESIST
Yikes. Those guns are big.
Person is to scale in this picture:
That's awesome!
Ran across this pic last week:
Female worker cleaning the rifling of a BL 15" gun, Coventry Ordnance works, England, United Kingdom, 1914-1918
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
The USS North Carolina is moored as a museum at Wilmington, NC. It's worth the tour if you're in the area. Seeing 16-inch guns in person, and then reading about the rounds they fired (e.g., a 2,700-lb armor-piercing round 21 miles, propelled by 540 lbs of powder) is, well, hard to imagine.
http://www.battleshipnc.com/16-inch-...tery-big-guns/
Think about this:
If an Iowa class battleship fired a full broadside it would move the 58,000+ ton ship laterally 100 yards.
"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
Wow. So what does the drill look like that it was attached to?