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I remember steaming about a mile astern the Iowa when she let loose a couple broadsides. Terrific bass response. Two thousand yards away and it still felt like someone was thumping you with a pillow.
Times change, and though they did not fight other battle ships after WWII (that I know of) they were the ultimate naval gunfire support platform for any troops within 20 miles of the beach.
I’d love to have one back to stick next to Gaza or Lebannon right now.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm——————–
THE USS Missouri will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart….
As far as “I’d love to have one back to stick next to Gaza or Lebanon right now.”
What we got now is 10 fold more deadly…
But she sure was beautiful in her day…. Still is.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:39 pmAnd everyone says size doesn’t count. I say the bigger the better!
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:46 pmI remember hearing about one of these magnificent Battleships being called on a fire mission during the Korean War. It seems that the bad guys were behind a mountain, or ridge, and could not be reached for a number of reasons. The naval liaison is supposed to have said, “No problem. We’ll just lower the mountain.”
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 pmeight inches if i fold it in half
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:10 pmI always wanted to know, presuming the ship rocks a little bit
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:04 amdue to waves. Yeah, I know, it’s a big ship, but even if it only moves
a fraction of a degree, that’s a large change in the shell’s
impact after it travels 10 miles or more.
Was there anything automatic that tried to compensate for this?
Those old guns originally designed in WW2 used some kind of manually cranked computer to compute firing solutions, if I recall correctly. It was an imperfect system, but worked fairly well for the weapons of its time.
And when you consider that a full broadside of high explosive shells could reportedly level an entire square mile of land or so (at least that’s what I heard, true or not, I’m not sure), who cares whether it is off by a degree or two?
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 amHe gives an in depth explanation of early US navy computer assisted firfing systems that took account for many of the factors that can spoil shell trajectory. I remember an account of ships in heavy seas with guns swirling and dancing up and down in unison as the gyros accounted for
the ships pitching and yaw.
Another brief search (Your question had me curious too) found this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_I_Fire_Control_Computer
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 ambeeeeeeautiful..Need some John Phillip Sousa and whole lotta’ video of this and various others for a July 4th video, how ’bout it Bash?
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 amThe readers of this board are a marvelous resource in addition to Pat, Bash, Lfty, et al. Notice: A pretty obscure questiion is asked at 1204, and by 0814 he (we) have two dead on answers.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 amBill Smith, Old Sailor,
I was on my way out the door when I posted, hoping someone else would see that. I miss the Mighty Mo. She left my corner of the US- Pacific NW, for Honolulu and we got nothing in return. 
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:49 pm